Sentences with phrase «old crops in»

After decades of regulated growth, one of the oldest crops in the world is making a comeback in the green building space.

Not exact matches

How to Manage Interns: Mind the Generation Gap When you're infusing your company with young blood in the form of a new crop of interns, you have to consider what clashes might occur if you have a staff that's on the older side.

They can happen to anyone, but they occur more often in older people, obese people, and those with type 2 diabetes, and they tend to crop up where skin rubs against skin, like the armpits, groin, and folds of the neck, according to the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).

If anything — as a recent crop of books about Apple, Google, Amazon and Twitter makes plain — they mark the sly triumph of old - style corporate manners in a bright new skin.

The 36 - year - old vice-president of one of North America's biggest toy companies is dressed in the official company uniform: flip - flops, cargo shorts, T - shirt and sunglasses, perched just so atop a crop of bed head.

But despite being older than the newest crop of luxury towers coming online in the past few years, Trump's units are still among the most prized for their price, says Lenz.

All in all, for people who prefer to read their e-books on «old - fashioned» e-ink devices rather than tablets, there's no doubt the Kindle Touch is the cream of the crop.

When it inked a $ 4 - billion leveraged buyout deal back in 2010, it became the latest in a long line of suitors that had promised to «fix» the 60 - year old chain, which was flagging in the face of stiff competition from a reinvigorated McDonald's and a new crop of rivals like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread.

There simply were not enough baby boys born during the war years to provide husbands for the bumper crop of girls born in 1947,» 48, and ’49 (given the then - custom for women to marry men a year or two older than themselves).

The Old Covenant blessing was land that God allotted the Jews and the rain helped their crops grow in abundance.

And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.

We are back again at the old question which the Reformers asked of the Church of Rome, and which has cropped up again and again in the discussions within the Protestant church.

The old antithesis will crop up in the back of his head sometimes to disturb his peace of mind.

1928 editorial from the Wall Street Journal, «What America needs today is not Government controls, industrial expansion, or a bumper corn crop; America needs to return to the day when grandpa took the team out of the field in the early afternoon on Wednesday in order to hitch them to the old spring wagon which grandma put all the children after she washed their faces shining clean; and they drove off to prayer meeting in the little white church at the crossroads underneath the oak trees, where everyone believed the Bible, trusted Christ, and loved one another.»

The main experiments used to conduct this research are the Farming Systems Trial (FST)- the oldest continuous trial in the US that compares organic and conventional farming systems, the new Vegetable Systems Trial (VST)- comparing the impacts organic and conventional farming practices on nutrient density in vegetables and linkages to soil health, and Integrated Crop - Livestock Systems using annual and perennial crops along with cattle or hogs for soil, plant, and animal health.

The closely related cousin of wheat, spelt is one of the oldest crops to be cultivated in human history.

Each farmer takes great care and pride in their crops and consequently many trees are between 25 - 40 years old with some reaching up to 60 years old.

Mr Landale put the 3416 - hectare cropping property up for sale in November after deciding to retire and because there was no family succession plan — a common problem for many of Australia's old farming families.

For example, in parts of Germany, korn means «rye,» where in Old English language, corn referred generally to the most prominent crop produced by a district.

The Refine Crop I'm wearing is probably the most comfortable thing I've ever put on my body... and for the record I'm currently in 10 - year old, hot pink Juicy Couture velour sweats.

The depravity of their cynicism astounds even a crusty old bird like me: If Golden Rice is a success and effectively reduces blindness, disease, and death caused by vitamin A deficiency in millions of rice consumers, it will pave the way for other GM food crops that may be healthier for people and good for the environment.

Tour, learn, pick, sample, and taste special tree crops in - season at eclectic Cunningham Organic Farm, located west of Old Town Temecula and nestled in the hills next to the Cleveland National Forest.

California dairy farmers switching to almond crops, and even a 92 - year - old dairy plant that was forced to close due to a decline in sales recently reopened as a plant - based milk company.

But Australian soils are very old, and naturally deficient in many of the nutrients that are necessary for crop production.

Chickpeas are part of the diet of some of the healthiest populations in the world today and it is one of the oldest consumed crops in the world.

Organic agriculture standards recommend the cultivation of site adapted crop varieties24, characteristics often found in the older native cultivars.

In the 31 years since, he has sailed into every harbor on the Maine coast, raised crops and cattle, guided on Merrymeeting Bay, won the state skeet championship, married the attractive daughter of an old Maine market hunter and guide (it was kind of a shotgun wedding: they went duck shooting before and after the ceremony), sold boats and finally settled into the excursion - boat business.

The 21 - year - old is part of a crop of youngsters, mostly brought in by manager Brendan Rodgers from elsewhere.

It's one of those section of track that crop up occasionsally (like the old «Singapore Sling» chicane in Singapore) where it's incredibly easy for drivers to have a massive accident if they get it even slightly wrong.

That veterans are ruling on the track comes following an off - season where much attention was spent spotlighting NASCAR's emerging crop of young stars, many of whom displaced popular veterans in landing their current rides — including Jones, who moved over to JGR this season to replace 45 - year - old Matt Kenseth.

If they show they belong against this crop of players, that will do wonders for their draft stock, not to mention their confidence playing against 18 - year - olds in college next year.

John you old fox yes I meant from the current crop, and NO I'm not young my first visit to Highbury was in 1970 and I was 10 but you canot share this info because I'll have to kill you?

While Twitter could be a great platform to voice opinions, it can also be a graveyard of old tweets that can crop up and cause immense embarrassment in the future and Arsenal's latest signing learnt this the hard way.

The ghostly spectre of long dead Busby Babe and Man United legend Duncan Edwards made an apparition at Old Trafford earlier today to complain about the attitude of the current crop of players and captain Paul Pogba in particular.

President Akufo - Addo said the new crop of African leaders had come into office at a critical time in the lives of the Africans, where old alliances were having to be reshaped, implying that Africa had to look for new sources and new areas of committing resources to the development of the continent.

When asked about the crop of candidates for his old seat, Benjamin noted that he does not know Blake personally and will be watching to see how much of a connection with the district's communities he can make in a fairly short time.

But the earliest archaeological evidence for crop cultivation in China is 11,000 years old, suggesting that farming was slow to emerge from ancient traditions of plant use.

That bumper crop matched a huge increase in the number of 1 - year - old cod.

The best hope for improving African crop yields today would be to borrow technology from the decades - old green revolution that transformed agriculture in Asia and Latin America.

In 2008, Nature named 48 - year - old Glover one of five «crop researchers who could change the world.»

Bouis, an economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), envisioned impoverished farmers in Africa and South Asia growing staple crops that are enriched in key nutrients like iron, zinc, and vitamin A. His presentation had the audience hooked — until he said he would accomplish the feat via old - fashioned plant breeding techniques.

Later, comparing samples of multiple species of rice grown in numerous regions around the world, he found arsenic levels almost universally elevated, including in the U.S. Notably, much of the U.S. rice crop is grown in regions of the South where the soil is contaminated by old arsenic - based pesticides, once used by farmers to protect cotton crops from boll weevils.

The oldest carbonized sample of the crop found by archaeologists in the Pacific dates to about 1000 C.E. — nearly 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.

Jean Zahalka, a soft - spoken public health nurse with shortly cropped gray hair, sat in a small office at the headquarters of the Snohomish Health District, conducting a phone interview with the mother of a 7 - month - old baby who had just been diagnosed with whooping cough.

He is celebrated for discovering 5,500 - year - old ears of corn, the ancestors of today's domesticated crop, in a cave in Mexico in 1962.

Another protein alternative is quinoa (keen - OH - wa), a centuries - old «poor man's» crop grown in the High Andies Mountains of Bolivia and Peru which continues to grow in popularity.

The topic should fall in the fields of human nutrition, animal nutrition, crop husbandry, either singly (eg obesity in 5 - year olds) or in any combination (eg brassica culture and mammalian health); these disciplines are interpreted widely.

In the old days, farmers had to carefully replenish the nutrient levels of their fields and pastures with compost, crop rotation, and soil rest intervals to maintain soil fertility.

Quinoa is one of the oldest crops to have been domesticated by Andean populations, and researchers believe it was first cultivated as a food crop in the Andean region of South America approximately 3,000 years ago.

Health problems as diverse as learning disabilities in children and heart disease in older people that may be related to disorders of the thyroid gland still crop up.