Sentences with phrase «just planted crops»

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Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

I just bought a second rhubarb plant for the garden... hoping I'll one day get a big enough crop to actually bake something with it!!!

We just planted a strawberry patch last year in the back yard so I'm pinning these to use when we start getting a bumper crop.

In just one year, New York State has more than tripled the number of growers participating in industrial hemp research, resulting in the planting of approximately 2,000 acres of the crop.

«It's just devastating to watch your crop wash after you've just planted it and it's coming out of the ground,» said Dan Annable, who operates a 500 - acre farm in Marietta.

Howard - Yana Shapiro, a plant scientist wizard, focused on how to improve nutrition in crops, rather than just the volume of the yield, and the coming crisis in feeding the world's population.

These additional plants provide enough data to get a true picture of crop health from just one image.

The form of phosphate plants can use is in danger of reaching its peak — when supply fails to keep up with demand — in just 30 years, potentially decreasing the rate of crop yield as the as the world population continues to climb and global warming stresses crop yields, which could have damaging effects on the global food supply.

But just like all wild plant species, these «crop wild relatives» (CWR) are also at risk of decline and extinction due to habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.

The obstacle to the other crops being adopted is that there just hasn't been enough plant breeding done to sufficiently improve perennial wheat and sorghum and test them in farmers» fields.

If they're going to fulfill their promise, next - generation transgenics will have to do more than just protect plants from pests or weeds: The race is on to create super crops that will be more fruitful while resisting droughts or floods.

By encouraging farmers to continue planting just a handful of crop strains, critics say widespread use of a few varieties of GMO crops might limit genetic diversity and thus the ability to survive in altered form when pests or other hazards unexpectedly arrive.

According to plant scientists from the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), growing potatoes in a lab situation was a very good idea, but bringing along just a few ounces of bean seeds — called Pulses — on the mission would be a better plan to start any emergency garden.

«It's entirely likely that as much as 500,000 acres of land in California will be left unplanted this year because there just won't be enough water to sustain the crops that would have been planted on that land.»

One key finding is that we can achieve truly significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by switching from gasoline to biofuels — but just how much of those reductions we realize depends on what crops we plant and where we plant them.

Project #foodnotlawn is in its second year, and I just planted all my spring crops: peas, radish, beets, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuces, spinach, arugula, chard, kale and brussel sprouts!

Our transgression just rendered the efficacy of the plant's pesticidal effects useless and has to be performed again, else, they will have a bad crop season.

Just a couple of decades ago, climatology was a quiet arena connected to broader human affairs mainly through maps of planting times for crops.

On the pro side, supporters claim that changes to the genetic structure of a plant can help it resist weed killers, avoid pests, and yield more crops, but the anti-GMOers remind us that the long - term effects of these foods just aren't clear.

Yes, Springer, if Oklahoma's wilted crops had just been fed more of that CO2 plant food, the farmers would be thanking God for polluting spewing coal power.

The potential use of plant - based sources of energy is limited because even corn — the most efficient of the grain crops — can convert just 0.5 percent of solar energy into a usable form.

But we have a sweet potato crop that has just come out, and we are planting broccoli, lettuce, mizzuna, carrots, onions and leeks too.»

Let's just make that clear again: Cut down tropical rainforest (say in Indonesia and Malaysia), plant the land with a biofuel crop (perhaps oil palms) and because of the soil on which that forest used to grow it would take 600 hundred years for the carbon emitted from that land conversion to be balanced out by carbon savings by using that biofuel for transport.

She prefers everbearing - type strawberries because they produce fruit intermittently during spring, summer and fall and not just the all - at - once bumper crop that June - bearing plants yield.