Sentences with phrase «plant crops year»

When the paddocks were built decades ago, says Gread, there was enough water to plant crops year round, flooding the paddock, and then allowing the water to drain onto poor ground or into groundwater.

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At the same time, projections for total planted US corn and soy acreage was reduced as farmers shifted to other crops; they are, however, expected to plant more soybeans than corn for the first time in 35 years.5 Brazilian corn acres also showed a downward bias.

Actually food for several years, since having salt water flood the earth would have caused the death of almost every plant that most of those animals could have eaten as well as damage the earth so the crops wouldn't have been able to come back for years.

1000s of my friends and family have grown 30 - 99 plants for 20 years, thanks for keeping prices high and NORCAL wealthy... # 1 crop in cali = $ 15 Billion Untaxed...

A three to four year cropping interval may be need to completely control volunteer wheat when white wheat is to be planted after red wheat.

Though ingredient suppliers have been working with the crop for years, peas as a source of plant - based protein is on a strong upwards trajectory.

In the US they are planted in July as a warm weather crop but can be grown all year round.

After five years of research and development (meanwhile experiencing an incredible amount of industrial espionage concerning their growing methods) they harvested their first test crop, growing plants for their specially - designed recirculating hydroponics system.

Despite years of vehement public opposition to the field and feed test of Golden Rice in the past decade — a genetically engineered rice promoted for commercialization in Asia, the Department of Agriculture — Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), PhilRice has filed renewed application this year toopen field test the genetically modified crop in the municipality of San Mateo in Isabela and Muñoz in Nueva Ecija.

Last year I planted shiso in our little greenhouse and the plant grew quite large and went to seed, which led to this year's bumper crop of baby shiso plants growing everywhere.

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.

Mr Newton said that some reports suggested only 50 per cent of the sorghum crop had been planted in the key Darling Downs region — which usually produces 1 million tonnes of sorghum a year — due to the dry weather.

While our organization has branched out (pun intended) since its founding 30 years ago to protect temperate forests (such as those in the Appalachian mountains), and tropical forests in Africa and Asia, our first efforts were focused on the rainforests of Latin America, working with farmers and foresters there to improve their lives and livelihoods so they wouldn't have to clear trees to plant crops or sell timber.

No Scorpion bumper crop this year, but I will take one rare plant over 50 common ones any day!»

We maintain our own certified planting seed, and personally contracted with «Seedsmen» who have not grown any wheat, rye or barley on their land for the last 2 years and who use their combines for only Gluten Free Oats, LLC or non gluten crops.

The following year's crop will produce some hybrids, which are discernible by extensive pod variation in shape and size on the same plant.

Q: Dave, I bought some Arrivivi Gusano pepper plants this year and I got a huge crop (bought from the Chile Woman and boy did I get my money's worth), but I have no clue as to what to cook or make from them.

I bought some Arrivivi Gusano pepper plants this year and I got a huge crop (bought from the Chile Woman and boy did I get my money's worth), but I have no clue as to what to cook or make from them.

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.

We just planted a strawberry patch last year in the back yard so I'm pinning these to use when we start getting a bumper crop.

The company announced in February that it would be transitioning roughly 80 % of its total stevia crop to StarLeaf in 2018, planting nearly 16,000 tons this year (a 200 % increase).

In just one year, New York State has more than tripled the number of growers participating in industrial hemp research, resulting in the planting of approximately 2,000 acres of the crop.

By Marie Rohde The Pabst Farms developer slashed its property tax bill this year by planting crops on 145 acres planned for commercial development, despite restrictions banning farming.

Only in recent years have advances in genomics — and understanding how genetics play out in whole organisms — made it realistic for crop breeders to be able to identify traits in wild plants and selectively breed them into domestic stock.

An entomologist at Purdue University, Krupke published studies on the appearance of neonicotinoids in crop - adjacent plants last year.

«Now, with a billion acres of these crops planted over the past 16 years, and with the data accumulated over that period, we have a better scientific understanding of how fast the insects evolve resistance and why.»

The report concluded the mustard was safe and nutritious, and GEAC chair Amita Prasad in New Delhi says the commission unanimously agreed on 11 May to recommend allowing farmers to plant the crop for the next 4 years.

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.

Where it would take about 10 years to develop a transgenic crop, it will take twice that time to develop a similar plant using marker assisted breeding.

Getting energy directly from this year's plant crop, in the form of biofuels, is cleaner and more efficient than getting it from coal or oil, but Dukes found that if we tried to supply current worldwide energy demand entirely from biofuels, it would consume at least 22 percent of the production of all land - based plants annually.

The form of phosphate plants can use is in danger of reaching its peak — when supply fails to keep up with demand — in just 30 years, potentially decreasing the rate of crop yield as the as the world population continues to climb and global warming stresses crop yields, which could have damaging effects on the global food supply.

If perennial plants come out of dormancy during an early thaw and then get hit with a late frost, which is what happened in 2012 in Illinois, the crop for that year could be lost.

Within years, genetic modification had increased crop yields by 50 per cent and created plants that were resistant to drought and pests, as well as being high in vitamins and minerals and able to produce their own nitrogen, so that they needed less fertiliser.

That was the conclusion drawn from a two - year study of 18 cover - crop treatments, ranging in diversity from one to eight plant species.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sowing excitement in the plant science community, the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced that it will award $ 85 million for studies over the next 5 years aiming to unlock the genetic secrets of corn and other crops.

Ten years ago, the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium, which is led by Nils Stein of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany, set out to assemble a complete reference sequence of the barley genome.

Dodder, a parasitic plant that causes major damage to crops in the U.S. and worldwide every year, can silence the expression of genes in the host plants from which it obtains water and nutrients.

These are geographic zones where a distinct range of edible plants were domesticated and developed by early farmers thousands of years ago, to become the food crops we know and love today.

«No - till fallow, or planting another crop without a fallow year, is the answer for controlling blowing dust.»

«Farmers don't have to plow up the field every year to plant new crops, and they're good for a decade or longer.»

Between 1996 and 2011, the number of acres planted with genetically modified crops worldwide went from 4 million to 395 million, a 9,000 percent increase in the space of 15 years.

The team on the three - year study includes plant pathologists, breeders, crop nutrient managers, economists, weed scientists, entomologists and outreach specialists from Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. Research on organic rice has been in progress at the AgriLife Research facility in Beaumont for at least five years, Zhou said, and results from those studies, along with some from other areas, will be parlayed into the new study.

Dodder, a parasitic plant that levies millions of dollars» worth of damage on crops each year is a stealthy invader with the ability to wage war on the genes of its host plants.

The new species was discovered as part of a 5 - year, $ 4.36 million study funded by the National Science Foundation to inventory all 1500 or so species in the Solanum genus — a diverse group that includes poisonous plants commonly known as nightshades as well as agriculturally important crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.

«It's entirely likely that as much as 500,000 acres of land in California will be left unplanted this year because there just won't be enough water to sustain the crops that would have been planted on that land.»

If the results of the study can be replicated in crop plants, the work could have direct benefits for farmers trying to feed a world population that is expected to reach nine billion by the year 2050.

However, research has shown that grapevines are susceptible to powdery mildew, a plant disease, which contributes to significant crop loss for most commercial wine varietals that are cultivated each year.

Over the years, he and his colleagues have shown how some plants can take up certain metals in such large quantities that it is possible to «grow» a crop of metals.

Ancient Sumerians cultivated opium - containing poppy plants more than 5,000 years ago, calling their crop the «joy plant.»

But it will take at least 5 years before these plants can be stacked up against Monsanto's glyphosate - tolerant crops, predicts Jonathan Jones of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, U.K..