Sentences with phrase «other grain yields»

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Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

7Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain, 8And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.»

Working with in - country partners, IRRI develops advanced rice varieties that yield more grain and better withstand pests and disease as well as flooding, drought, and other harmful effects of climate change.

Agricultural innovation has long sustained the world's masses with an abundance of low - cost food, thanks to the success of the mid-20th century's Green Revolution, which brought industrialization and high - yield grains to India, Mexico and many other developing countries.

In such individuals, overconsumption of processed (high — glycemic index) foodstuffs and (even whole - grain) cereals overloads the metabolic machinery with carbohydrates, yielding hyperglycemia and other metabolic anomalies.

Shortly thereafter many other countries succeeded in boosting grain yields.

Dr Spencer has a post looking at the increase in corn yields (and other grains) over the last 60 years.

Yield is the mass of grain harvest per unit area harvested — in other words, the productivity of the crops on an area basis.

In addition to direct crop damage from increasingly intense precipitation events, wet springs can delay planting for grain and vegetables in New York, for example, and subsequently delay harvest dates and reduce yields.67 This is an issue for agriculture nationally, 65 but is particularly acute for the Northeast, where heavy rainfall events have increased more than in any other region of the country (Ch.

Some of the factors influencing grain yields are natural, while others are of human origin.

Indeed, the harvested area for «coarse grains» fell by 4 % as corn, with an average yield of 150 bushels per acre, replaced other feed grains such as sorghum (averaging 60 bushels per acre).