Sentences with phrase «known as crop»

In Barbados, carnival is really known as Crop Over, a throw back to the days of slavery, which celebrates the end of the cane season and another successful year.

Not exact matches

As Peter puts it, «I don't know a farmer who wouldn't be happier growing a very good crop, getting a decent price for it, and making his living that way.»

It's known as the world's most fickle crop.

Sold under the name Eagle 20 or Nova 40, the chemical is used to control a pest known as powdery mildew in crops such as grapes and berries, but is also known to be employed as a shortcut by illegal cannabis grow - operations when a crop is threatened by an infestation.

The ancient agricultural farmers knew the solar cycles very well, and celebrated when the days became longer, as it is a sign that the weather will get warmer and the crops will blossom.

However, I sometimes wonder if on Judgment Day we will be as proud when we learn about atrocities our nation has committed against Muslim nations in the form of economics, or unjustified wars, or price manipulation of crops and technology, or who knows what else?

As is well known, Aristotle agrees that some natural processes have final as well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raiAs is well known, Aristotle agrees that some natural processes have final as well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raias well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the raias material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the rain.

Everyone also knows that good can come out of evil, as when a plague of insects devastates the fields of a one «crop economy, forcing the region to diversify.

However, it is less well - known that glyphosate is also applied to non-GMO crops, specifically grains such as wheat and oats.

Tropical Traditions has a ZERO tolerance level for GMOs, herbicides, and pesticides, and since the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) allows small residue amounts of pesticides and herbicides approved by the EPA for conventional crops to be present in USDA Organic certified products, we knew that we had to develop our own standards to both use in purchasing products directly from producers, as well as to educate our consumers on our own values and standards.

All agree that the 2015 crop in California was smaller than it has been in recent years, and while we wait for the official February California Crop Report to give us an actual tonnage number, we know that the market has been very active, as buyers have moved to shore up supcrop in California was smaller than it has been in recent years, and while we wait for the official February California Crop Report to give us an actual tonnage number, we know that the market has been very active, as buyers have moved to shore up supCrop Report to give us an actual tonnage number, we know that the market has been very active, as buyers have moved to shore up supply.

The clever bunch of veggies known as brassicas — cruciferous crops such as broccoli, kale, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts — are the perfect, hearty base for your Caesar salad.

I know sorghum flour crops up in gluten - free baking — but have you ever tried cooking it whole as a grain before?

First known as IRRI's Maximum Yield Experiment, the first crop of the LTCCE was seeded on 24 May 1962.

Over ninety percent of the Serrano crop is used fresh in homemade salsas such as our version of Pico de Gallo, which is known by quite a few other names.

«Today we know we can grow our crops and foster environmental quality as well.

In Native American mythology, squash, corn, and beans are known as of the «three sisters» — the very crops that the harvest festival of Thanksgiving is meant to celebrate!

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) wants to inspire us all a fresh look at a group of ancient food crops known more commonly as legumes.

I know GMO crops are controversial but we do stay as far away from them as possible.

You may know them as the seeds that sprout on those cute terracotta Ch - ch - ch - chia Pets, but they're actually an ancient grain that's been a staple food crop in Central and South America for thousands of years.

I know that this could be paper talk again — but if even half of it is true then we as a club that claims to be looking to compete and keep our fans happy SHOULD be looking to buy in our own world class crop of players to improve on what we have.

Furadi, known as an adept technical racer, and widely viewed as a favorite among what is considered the best crop of drone racers, is most at home here.

«Every year people say it's a poor crop,» says the man known as the Bald Eagle.

You would like to think that, within the next 10 - 15 years, England will have something to show for the current crop of talent coming through the ranks but, as we all know, it isn't always that simple.

The trump card for Blackburn is» Big Sam» as the former Bolton gaffer will know plenty about the Bolton crop.

When looking for places locally I always look for a helpful website and social media updates, which let me know how the crops are doing as we get further into September (plus it always helps to see photos and know what to expect).

Separates such as skirts, trousers and blouses enable you to get many di erent uses out of just a few items, and all of ours feature the high - waisted, cropped or polka dotted goodness that Unique Vintage is known for.

Because of its appeal to a variety of insects, conventional cotton gets treated with pesticides more than any other crop except coffee.The pesticides used, cyanide, dicofol, naled, propargite and trifluralin, are all known to cause cancer, and have been classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as the most dangerous pesticides.

For instance, the insecticide lindane, once used to protect crops such as barley, wheat, and corn from pests, is no longer used by farms in Canada, and has been banned in over 50 countries around the world.

New York wants there to be a smaller terminal in Times Square and a second terminal built on the Jersey side, but Sweeney and the current Jersey crop oppose that because they don't want New Jersey commuters to have to make two stops on their ride into the City, also known as a «two - seat bus ride.»

A mushroom whose genes have been edited with molecular scissors known as CRISPR / Cas9 doesn't need to be regulated like other genetically modified crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said April 13 in a letter to the mushroom's creator.

Crop - strangling plants are rapidly becoming immune to the most widely used agricultural herbicide, glyphosate, commonly known as Roundup.

On the quest to making spintronic devices a reality, scientists at the University of Arizona are studying an exotic crop of materials known as transition metal dichalcogenides, or TMDs.

To avoid digging up the soil to remove weeds, farmers spray the herbicide glyphosate, best known as Roundup, in conjunction with glyphosate - resistant crops.

The caterpillar pest Helicoverpa zea (also known as cotton bollworm and corn earworm) has evolved resistance to four Bt proteins produced by biotech crops.

In fact, the FDA has ruled that because DNA is in every living organism, crops engineered with added genes are «substantially the same» as other foods and are no different from crops genetically modified through conventional breeding techniques.

Growing crops for fuel — known as biofuels — represents another potential way of cutting GHGs by replacing fossil fuels (biofuels created underground by nature over millions of years).

Mithila Jugulam, assistant professor of agronomy, led a study that looked at how kochia — invasive weed populations that are taking over crops and non-crop areas in western Kansas and the Great Plains — evolved resistance to the most used herbicide glyphosate, more commonly known as Roundup Weed Killer.

Although North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, the inventory uncovered nearly 4,600 CWR in the United States, including close relatives of globally important food crops such as sunflower, bean, sweet potato, and strawberry.

Biologists knew that wild pollinators matter to wild plants as well as to certain crops such as blueberries, but not to commercial agriculture as a whole.

Alfalfa, also known as Lucerne, Purple Medick and Trefoil, is a perennial flowering plant cultivated as an important forage crop.

The spotted wing drosophila uses a sharp organ known as an ovipositor to pierce ripening fruit and deposit eggs directly inside the crop, making it much more damaging than other drosophila flies that lay eggs only on top of decaying fruit.

He argues that traces of eclogite cropping up in diamonds about 3 billion years ago do not necessarily mean that a more modern supercontinent cycle (also known as the Wilson Cycle) had to have started at that time.

«For example, with the expansion of subtropical drylands as temperate drylands warm cool season crops such as wheat and potato would no longer be economically viable,» says Scott Wilson.

Known for its beauty and also as an important source of food, the sunflower is a global oil crop that shows promise for climate change adaptation because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of environmental conditions, including drought.

Every summer the larvae of a tiny insect known as the European corn borer (right) wreak havoc on American corn crops, costing farmers nearly a billion dollars annually.

Wu You Zhi Xiang, a loose - knit group known in English as Utopia, is gathering signatures on an open letter denouncing genetically modified (GM) crops.

Some commercial varieties of corn have been engineered with genes for a toxin borrowed from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, known as Bt, that kills the earworms when they eat the crop.

To address such competing realities, Glover advocates a strategy known as perenniation that integrates perennial trees and other perennial plants — those that survive from one germinating season to the next — among annual crops, which die off after each growing season.

The new species was discovered as part of a 5 - year, $ 4.36 million study funded by the National Science Foundation to inventory all 1500 or so species in the Solanum genus — a diverse group that includes poisonous plants commonly known as nightshades as well as agriculturally important crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.