Sentences with phrase «over irrigate»

This reaction was conjectured to reduce rainfall over the irrigated land while generating a clockwise circulation that interacts with the prevailing regional wind.

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If all 108,000 acres Canada cultivates annual were to be harvested as dryland hemp, the total production cost would be valued at over $ 44 million annually and over $ 61 million for irrigated hemp.

However, cotton, like almonds, is highly reliant on irrigated water, making the sector vulnerable to drought and rising water prices as well as political stoushes, as is occurring currently in the Federal parliament over the next stage of the Murray Darling Basin irrigation plan.

Home remedies such as irrigating the nose with saline, and using a humidifier or sitting over a steaming bowl of water, will help to loosen the passages and clear the mucus.

Overall, the study showed that irrigating at 100 percent of evapotranspiration, or ET, provided no yield or quality advantages over 75 percent ET irrigation, so essentially can be viewed as a «waste,» Brauer said.

«We determined we need to be irrigating at 75 percent of our past ET levels as estimated with the current model and finding hybrids that better tolerate stress,» Brauer said, adding this was from studies conducted by Xu and Marek over several years.

The researchers built large shelters over plots and irrigated them with rainwater so they received either more or less rain than the 100 - year regional average.

«By continually irrigating — letting the water go over a field and never stopping it — it could turn into an artificial wetland.»

«If you are able to irrigate your crops with less water over time,» Ketterhagen said, holding his arms out and letting the silky plumes brush his palms, «I think you could create a more drought - resistant hay crop.»

«Over a century, we've been irrigating this country, and we've established an ecology based on what we've been doing,» he said.

Observers recorded over 20,000 curlews: about 93 % were in the central and southern portions of the Central Valley, concentrating in areas extensively flood irrigated for alfalfa and irrigated pasture.

Borlaug also found that when he applied fertiliser and irrigated the tall spindly Mexican wheat varieties, the heads grew satisfyingly fatter but the top - heavy plants now toppled over.

Butter is a perfect long distance food; it lasts for a long time, so it can be transported on a boat, it is resource intensive (a lot of feed goes into a gallon of milk, a lot of milk goes into a pound of butter), and the variation in environmental impact depending on where it is produced is huge (rain irrigated pasture over artificially irrigated grain).

In Tamil Nadu, a state with more than 62 million people in southern India, wells are going dry almost everywhere and falling water tables have dried up 95 percent of the wells owned by small farmers, reducing the irrigated area in the state by half over the last decade.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS • Over five years of dedicated experience working in the farmhouse • Highly skilled in practical farm operations including plowing, planting, irrigating and fertilizing • Hands on experience of using service equipment such as tractors and milking machines • In - depth knowledge of maintaining sanitary living arrangements for farm animals

The actor's Florida ranch stretches over an immaculate 55 acres and includes 48 horse stalls, its own regulation - size, irrigated polo field, an exercise track, seven tack rooms, laundry, wash racks and separate equipment building.