Sentences with phrase «of vegetable crops»

Temperature is a significant factor in the performance of potting media containing vermicompost and we investigated optimal temperature ranges for a variety of vegetable crops.

Virginia Ursin received her bachelor's degree in plant and soil sciences from the University of Massachusetts and her master's degree from the University of California, Davis Department of Vegetable Crops.

Feed on the pests of vegetable crops such as aphids and whitefly

Plectosphaerella cucumerina is a model of study, but is also an important pathogen of vegetable crops such as melon» explains the CSIC researcher at CRAG, Maria Coca.

From: A History of Vegetable Crops in New Mexico, New Mexico State University Experiment Station Bulletin 624, 1974.

I gained extensive experience with a wide range of vegetable crops, and subsequently as a Regional Agronomist.

Not exact matches

Because of high cost, aeroponics is unlikely to supplant field crops, but Harwood sees great potential in growing leafy greens and vegetables in arid regions.

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.

After 1980, Chile did indeed begin to break up its large landholdings, but in a way dictated by Chicago monetarists emphasizing export crops wine and vegetables rather than grain to feed its population by a policy of import displacement.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

La Fe is a full - service distributor of 1,400 food and beverage products, including frozen vegetables, tropical fruit pulp, frozen entrées and frozen root crops.

The farm also has a small experimental orchard and research plots for grain, dry land vegetables, berries, and root crops, and a beautiful home which he helped his father build with a stunning view of the Bears Paw Mountains.

When your summer vegetable crops come in and you just can't get enough of those luscious tomatoes, consider tomato soup.

As the weather warms and new crops begin producing new fruits and vegetables, our food focus changes; time to change the focus from the root veggies of winter to the baby veggies of spring.

This beautiful, autumn - hued salad is full of fall's best vegetables (sweet potatoes, fennel, carrots, kale), along with late season bumper crops of our summer favorites to create a best - of - both - worlds meal.

In addition to their abundant organic crops, Hill Top Farms also offers a tour of the 30 acre farm which consists of a trip through the horse barn where participants get a up close, hands on education about equine care including feeding and grooming one or more of the nine resident horses, feeding the chickens and petting the goats and a hayride out to the fields where you get to see and taste organic vegetables in production and learn about how things grow and why organics is important.

While soybeans and corn are the main cash grain crops being tested in this project, we are also testing a variety of other agricultural enterprises, such as vegetable production, orchards and pastures.

In this case, increase your intake of vegetables, fruits, root crops, nuts, seeds and spices, striving to get 80 % of your nutrition from these alkalizing foods.

Unusual vegetables include breadfruits, strange - looking root crops like dasheen and taro, a wide variety of pumpkins, christophene (chayote), and the leaves of the dasheen, which resemble spinach and are used in the popular Caribbean soup, callaloo.

Nightingale Farms stands out in the produce farming industry for not only the quality of the fruits and vegetables it grows, but the techniques it utilizes to cultivate its crops.

That's when Dr. Michael Bartolo, an extension vegetable crops specialist and associate professor at Colorado State University's Arkansas Valley Research Center, obtained a plant of a strain of Pueblo chile from his uncle, Harry Mosco, a farmer on the Saint Charles Mesa, east of Pueblo.

Specifically, she is working on finding the potential alternative cheap sources of sanitizers for prevention of microbial growth tomato, which is the first most grown vegetable crop in Malawi.

Fava bean plants are a great source of nitrogen for the vegetable garden so we grow them as a cover crop for that purpose, and reap the benefits of fava bean salads, soup or spread before we dig them under.

They have come to realize that the campaigns against saturated fats and the tropical oils have been largely a political campaign, not a scientific one, and that American research has favored the newer vegetable oils produced since WWII with expeller - pressed technology that favors the hugely subsidized crops of soybeans and corn.

When you buy fruits and vegetables through our Markon First Crop (MFC) and Ready - Set - Serve (RSS) brands, you get the confidence that they have been planted, grown, harvested, and processed under the strict requirements of our 5 - Star Food Safety ® Program.

I know we don't officially step over the winter threshold for a few more weeks, but the markets are already starting to show signs of the dwindling autumn crops and heaps of sturdy winter vegetables.

It's easy to turn a bumper crop of vegetables into a bumper crop of fresh soups.

Analysing 343 studies into the compositional differences between organic and conventional crops, the team found that a switch to eating organic fruit, vegetable and cereals — and food made from them — would provide additional antioxidants equivalent to eating between 1 - 2 extra portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

That process of hydrogenating vegetable oils, primarily oils derived from soy and corn, two highly subsidized crops in the U.S. which have only been in the food chain post WWII due to expeller - pressed technology, creates toxic trans - fats which have now been shown to be very unhealthy and linked to many diseases.

The overall goal of the Food Safety Project for the Wisconsin Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Industry is «to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crop producers in Wisconsin by assessing the food safety needs of fresh fruit and vegetable producers and by developing best practices to meet the needs identifieVegetable Industry is «to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crop producers in Wisconsin by assessing the food safety needs of fresh fruit and vegetable producers and by developing best practices to meet the needs identifievegetable producers and by developing best practices to meet the needs identified.»

The simple explanation is that American soldiers, exposed to the foreign produce and foodstuffs in a distant land where many would be returning to farming and agricultural pursuits after their service, would be interested in crops that they have seen and tasted in the mercados (marketplaces), and especially the abundance of vegetables, herbs, and spices for sale in the marketplaces of the cities of Monterrey and Vera Cruz, and in the cavernous Mercado Tlatelolco in Mexico City.

Likewise, 45 % of root crop fruit and vegetables are wasted, representing the highest wastage rate.

Today, Church Brothers Farms produces more than 20 different fresh vegetables throughout the year from 35,000 crop acres in the growing regions of California, Arizona, and Central Mexico.

«Imagine re-educating the nation and utilising the two major crops of Aboriginal Australia: yams (as well as other root vegetables) and grains.

However, higher labour requirements may be expected on organic farms under European conditions14 due to a higher share in the production of labour intensive crops (e.g. vegetables) and on - farm marketing and processing activities.

The rates of payment vary according to the crop produced: 700 Litas / ha (US$ 175) for fruit and berry crops, 350 Litas / ha (US$ 88) for vegetable crops and 150 Litas / ha (US$ 38) for cereals and grassland.

A wide variety of family - owned farms dot our expansive landscape, producing fruits and vegetables, meat and dairy, and specialty crops like lavender and olives.

The FFS has now become a model approach for farmer education in Asia and many parts of Africa and Latin America, and has since been used with a wide range of crops including cotton, tea, coffee, cocoa, pepper, vegetables, small grains and legumes.

Greencell markets a wide variety of fruit, salad and vegetable crops from around the world.

In terms of inroads into conventional production, the most significant crops are spelt (37 percent of the conventional area), buckwheat (30 percent), herbs (37 percent) and mixed vegetables on plots of less than 2 ha (37 percent).

Produced from a new variety of oilseed rape — the familiar yellow - flowered crop that is the third - largest source of the world's vegetable oil needs — the new oil, -LSB-...]

A vibrant time of year when foods yield their best crops throughout the United States and Brazil, the expert Gaucho chefs at Fogo have hand - selected and crafted new recipes featuring fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables combined in some unique ways.

As Colombia rebuilds after more than 50 years of civil war, farmers are under pressure to stop growing illegal drug crops and instead plant fruits and vegetables.

If there were no more bees, 75 % of all economic plants, fruits and vegetables, 90 % of all wild plants and all forage crops would be affected.

When a gardener anticipates growing vegetable crops during the fall or winter, it would be wise to contact the local agricultural representative in an effort to find out which types of vegetables grow best at specific times of...

Variation of glucosinolates in vegetable crops of Brassica rapa L. ssp.

I've been trying to really think about what crops we can never have enough of - for our family, it comes down to easily stored root vegetables, or things that freeze well, like broccoli.

At each distribution we aim to provide our shareholders with 8 - 18 different crops, filling the weekly vegetable needs of a family of four, or 2 - 4 adults, depending on how often you cook and how central vegetables are to your diet.

Whether you've got houseplants, a flower garden or your very own vegetable crop growing in the back yard, you can enlist your elementary - aged child in taking care of them.

A typical session might involve taking a stroll around the farm to harvest vegetables and herbs, listening to a lecture on the history of a certain crop (including honey!)