Sentences with phrase «perennial grain crops»

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Of all the crops grown in Canada, a perennial version of wheat makes the most sense, since the grain is Canada's top agricultural export — $ 2.8 billion of wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last year.

However, options for reducing tillage in the mid-Atlantic region have been identified and tried, including: (1) rotating annual grain crops with perennial forages; (2) decreasing depth and degree of soil inversion (e.g. chisel... Continued

Farmers around the world are starting to experiment with perennial food crops — both grains, like wheat and sorghum, and legumes, like peas and beans.

The Land Institute's work, led by a team of plant breeders and ecologists in multiple partnerships worldwide, is focused on developing perennial grains, pulses and oilseed bearing plants to be grown in ecologically intensified, diverse crop mixtures known as perennial polycultures.

With the development of perennial versions of certain grain crops, compared to annual crops, perennial crops offer advantages for ecosystem maintenance, particularly in resource - limited, marginal land areas.

So, to summarize hugely on what is a complex and exciting subject; pasture cropping builds topsoil while simultaneously producing a grain crop, improving a perennial pasture and also feeding up some livestock and sequestering carbon while the system is at it.