Sentences with phrase «irrigated crops»

This result is related to a declining yield gap between irrigated and rain - fed agriculture caused by yield reductions of irrigated crops due to higher temperatures, or yield increases of rain - fed crops due to more precipitation.

Irrigated crops will increase evaporative cooling, and in some cases irrigated land area is large.

Crops from bottomland close to a major river are a lot more dependable than irrigated crops from arid and distant terrain.

Corn ethanol made from irrigated crops, for example, can use more than 1,000 times more water than oil refining, according to calculations by Sandia National Laboratory.

Researchers writing in the latest edition of the journal Weed Science are providing new insights into the control of herbicide - resistant kochia, a weed that competes with both dryland and irrigated crops across the Great Plains states.

«That subjects rice to a different spectrum of disease, weeds and insect pests than dryland or irrigated crops.»

Under the same business - as - usual scenario, the researchers projected higher yields for irrigated crops such as wheat, soybean, and sorghum.

Spaniards are also questioning the country's drive to grow more and more irrigated crops.

Prospects for irrigated crops and most livestock - related production, however, remain subdued (see «Box A: The Recovery from the Drought» for further details).

The prospects for irrigated crop production and livestock industries are more subdued, with stored water levels still low in some states.

The fund has a substantial western Victoria cropping aggregation a prized King Island aggregation for beef production and a farming aggregation at Darlington Point for irrigated cropping in NSW which includes the famed Tubbo Station and Huddersfield.

The treated water is used for irrigating crop on about 1,200 acres surrounding the plant.

Using less water to irrigate crops could restore the entire Aral Sea, says Micklin.

New Delhi's endemic shortfalls occur largely because water managers decided some years back to divert large amounts from upstream rivers and reservoirs to irrigate crops.

Reclaimed wastewater — graywater, sewage effluent and other waste — might seem gross, but if handled correctly, it can be a nutrient - rich way to irrigate crops.

«If you are able to irrigate your crops with less water over time,» Ketterhagen said, holding his arms out and letting the silky plumes brush his palms, «I think you could create a more drought - resistant hay crop.»

Moreover, some Indigenous people rely on harvesting wild plants and animals, and irrigating crops threatens that (Biological Conservation, doi.org/tj2).

That means turning down the spigot for farmers who irrigate crops with water from Upper Klamath Lake.

«Evaluating greenhouse gas emissions in an irrigated cropping system.»

Nearly all water needed to supply cities, farms, and industry accumulates as snow in nearby or distant mountain ranges melts and runs down into rivers used to irrigate crops, sustains fish and wildlife, and quenches...

This work demonstrates that SuperU can reduce N2O emissions from irrigated cropping systems, but the results suggest that there is a crop - dependent effect.

Production of cotton, the primary irrigated crop in the Southwest and in southern Arizona in particular, will drop to less than 10 percent of the crop yield under optimal irrigation conditions, the study projects.

In predicting how climate will affect irrigated crop yields in the future, the researchers also consider factors such as population and economic growth, as well as competing demands for water from various socioeconomic sectors, which are themselves projected to change as the climate warms.

The loss is more than cosmetic: The Alps supply a crucial source of water for irrigating crops across Europe.

The water is filtered and stored in a holding tank where it is recycled to flush the toilets or used for irrigating crops.

Lake Chad, for example, has been getting smaller due to climate fluctuations and because its used to irrigate crops.

In those cases, other causes of water shortages came into play due to local factors, such as increased water demand, population growth or methods used for irrigating the crops.

If all the water used to irrigate the crops fell from the sky as rain or was taken from rivers or underground sources in sustainable amounts we'd be in good shape, but sadly and increasingly, that is not the case.

If all the water used to irrigate the crops fell from the sky as rain or was taken from rivers or underground sources in sustainable amounts we'd be in good shape, but sadly and increasingly, that is not the case (see sidebar for more on this).

A deep well provides Blue Heron with water, they irrigate their crops with a combination of overhead sprinklers and drip tape.

Turf grass is the single - largest irrigated crop in the United States.

The best biofuel is still ethanol from corn but it has to be part of an integrated production facility which should include the following steps: cattle feed lot, feed all waste (distiller's dried solids) to the cattle, convert the cattle waste to methane to supply part of the energy source for the distillation, burn the dry crop waste to provide the remainder of the energy, irrigate the crops with the effluent from the methane digestor.

«If the water level in the Euphrates continues to decrease, there will be a disaster in July because it will not be possible to irrigate crops,» warned Aoun Thiab Abdullah, director of the National Centre for Water Resources.

The first is obvious: There are now about 38 million thirsty Californians living across the state, watering their lawns and golf courses, and irrigating crops in what is the most agriculturally productive state in the country.

Persians discovered as early as the sixth century that the wind could be used to move water to irrigate crops.

Along with the hot summer, annual precipitation for 2003 was as much as 12 inches (300 millimeters) below normal, leaving most of Europe in a drought.21 Damages to the agricultural sector were estimated at more than U.S. $ 16 billion (more than $ 13 billion).3, 21 Many areas saw an increase in wildfires, while low water levels in major rivers led to problems ranging from irrigating crops to cooling power plants.4, 21,22

Downstream, silt and chemical pollution would make surface and groundwater unsuitable for irrigating crops or drinking.

Not exact matches

Because of its high amount of surface water, it was ideal for loi, irrigated fields for farming the starchy vegetable taro, a staple crop, she said.

At the same time, conditions for livestock and irrigated - crop farmers are expected to remain difficult, with shortages of stored water persisting in many areas.

What the people needed most was water for themselves, their grasslands and their crops, and canals and reservoirs were developed with much engineering skill to drain off the flood waters and irrigate the land.

The alluvial plains are suitable for more crops and garden vegetables, especially when properly irrigated.140

The fund has a portfolio of 17 farms organised into five aggregations that operate broadacre cropping, irrigated, beef and dairy enterprises.

«The greatest demand is for sheep meat and wool, dry land cropping and irrigated row cropping (at scale) and permanent plantings like tree nuts and citrus,» Mr Thomas said.

IRRI also gives support in national strategy and framework planning for hybrid rice development; research on abiotic stress tolerance particularly submergence, drought, and low temperature damage in high elevation areas; support for the implementation of integrated crop and resource management in the target areas through the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) and the Indonesian Rice Knowledge Bank; and support of dissemination of post harvest technologies.

AgCAP started the sale process in March of the portfolio of 17 farms organised into five aggregations that operate broadacre cropping, irrigated, beef and dairy enterprises.

All commercially grown Hass and Lamb - Hass avocados are insurable if the crop is irrigated and the crop has reached the sixth growing season or has produced at least 2,000 pounds of avocados per acre in one of the three most recent crop years.

IRRI works with Indian farmers on various crop management options such as resource - conserving technologies, direct seeding, mechanization, and postharvest to streamline production practices for both rainfed and irrigated systems.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

The second objective was to use the evaluated modules to assess the long - term effects of growing winter wheat as a cover crop on water balances and seed cotton yield under irrigated and dryland conditions, Ale said.

The two DSSAT crop modules were evaluated using measured data on soil water and crop yield from four treatments: irrigated cotton without a cover crop, irrigated cotton with winter wheat as a cover crop, dryland cotton without a cover crop, and dryland cotton with a winter wheat cover crop at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Chillicothe from 2011 to 2015.