Sentences with phrase «plant field corn»

Not exact matches

But «nature's pretty random,» Freeman says, and designing office plants in this way creates what's «effectively a plantation, no more natural than a field of corn.»

Because coca is often planted in the same field with food crops, corn, bananas, yucca and beans are killed along with it.

The endless fields of corn and soybeans blur into the expanses of the American Middle West, fly - over country, where ethanol plants and windmill farms have sprouted in recent years but nothing much makes the national news.

He makes it pretty clear what is bad and const - itutes punishment... eating shellfish, wearing a poly - cotton blend, planting corn and soybeans in the same field, and what is good, like selling my daughter into slavery, but only to a neighboring country.

We drove back the by the fields planted in corn, nopal cactus and agave that we had passed, found the irrigation canal, and followed it until it ended near a small communal cattle watering hole.

Field corn was planted this summer in the...

Our GMO - Tested and Glyphosate - Tested open pollinated corn is grown on small family farms with buffer zones, ensuring that the places where the corn is planted is not downwind from any other conventional corn fields that may be using genetically modified seeds.

She sees the field where he once disked all night, then hitched up the mules and began planting corn until his head jerked and he saw that his rows were running together.

Much of my team's work focuses on transgene technology from early - stage experiments in model plants all the way to field trials with crop plants such as corn.

Soybean is the second - most - planted field crop in the U.S. after corn, worth more than $ 4 billion annually in the U.S. Current soybean varieties are susceptible to an array of pests and pathogens.

And if the weed gains a foothold in planted fields, corn and soybean growers in Illinois should take a tip from Georgia cotton farmers and do everything possible to remove the plants, he said.

Corn hybrids with improved tolerance to crowding stress, grown at higher plant populations than their predecessors, have been a driver of rising field corn yields in recent decaCorn hybrids with improved tolerance to crowding stress, grown at higher plant populations than their predecessors, have been a driver of rising field corn yields in recent decacorn yields in recent decades.

Plant scientist Eduardo Fernandez in front of a poster showing how Monsanto's Bt corn had performed in field trials.

In order to identify CST hybrids in field corn, researchers usually compare hybrids grown across a range of plant populations.

In the second week of November, central Indiana is a patchwork of tawny and black: here a field covered with a stubble of dried corn and soybean plants; a little farther on, bare earth where the farmer has plowed under the residue of last summer's crop.

In fact, in the case of Bt corn, farmers are required to plant a section of their fields with refuge crops.

The portion of fields planted with GM maize had 82 % more weeds than conventional corn, because the herbicides used were not as effective.

One additional side benefit for having a few milkweed plants in a field of corn is that it serves as a breeding place and food source for monarch butterflies.

«Roundup ready» plants, which now dominate U.S. fields, include soybeans, corn, canola, cotton and sugar beets.

Plants — from the maple or the yew tree to the corn in roadside fields — produce countless kinds of compounds, also known as natural products, that the plants manufacture using the enzymes predetermined by their geneticPlants — from the maple or the yew tree to the corn in roadside fields — produce countless kinds of compounds, also known as natural products, that the plants manufacture using the enzymes predetermined by their geneticplants manufacture using the enzymes predetermined by their genetic code.

Crops such as canola and corn grow at different densities; the field is sometimes muddy and is rocky at other times; and plants often obscure the view of potential impediments.

In field experiments, the targeted release of terpenes around corn plants reduces damage from hungry caterpillars.

Indeed, an SMR - 160 plant can be sited in a corn field or a desert.

«They planted the grains first — corn, wheat, barley, oats, and rye — along with a field of flax, the plant from which linen thread and cloth are made,» King explains.

Like most farmers, Walter plants a variety of crops in rotation, that is changing the crops planted in a field each year to save and replace soil nutrients: oats one year, then corn and then hay.

Caves also provide a venue for speaking with spirits to learn the right time for agricultural practices such as when to plant corn and burn the fields.

Walking past fields cultivated with potatoes, corn and quinua we will have the opportunity to see a variety of birds and native plants and to learn about the customs of the Andean people.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

The users of climate data at the time were farmers trying to understand if grapes, corn, wheat or barley was the proper planting choice for a given field, as well as city folks dimensioning their storm drains, etc. 30 years was found to be a statistically justifiable shortest period of time.

I was at Aldo Leopold's «Shack» in Baraboo, Wis.; at the World Food Prize Foundation conference in Des Moines; and then out in the fields of Ames, Iowa, where a sustainable - agriculture team at Iowa State University is showing how to grow bountiful crops of soybeans and corn with far less fertilizer and pesticide than is used in the standard industrial - style pattern of planting.

If Nepal wants to develop its own hybrid corn varieties in the name of local food and ag sustainability, it wouldn't take more than one university - trained plant breeder, a field site, and 5 to 10 years to produce productive hybrid varieties suitable for Nepal.

TH: You mentioned that Ingeo is made from plant sugars derived from field corn.

The two scientists calculated all the fuel inputs for ethanol production — from the diesel fuel for the tractor planting the corn, to the fertilizer put in the field, to the energy needed at the processing plant — and found that ethanol is a net energy - loser.

Staying stuck at one point in that progression — a sweeping corn field planted over and over again — invites common agricultural problems such as pests, diseases, weeds, and depleted and dry soils.

Springtime cold air outbreaks (at least two consecutive days during which the daily average surface air temperature is below 95 % of the simulated average wintertime surface air temperature) are projected to continue to occur throughout this century.19 As a result, increased productivity of some crops due to higher temperatures, longer growing seasons, and elevated CO2 concentrations could be offset by increased freeze damage.20 Heat waves during pollination of field crops such as corn and soybean also reduce yields (Figure 18.3).4 Wetter springs may reduce crop yields and profits, 21 especially if growers are forced to switch to late - planted, shorter - season varieties.

U.S. Department of Agriculture data tables provide evidence for the importance of the eight Midwest states for U.S. agricultural production.3 Evidence for the effect of future elevated carbon dioxide concentrations on crop yields is based on scores of greenhouse and field experiments that show a strong fertilization response for C3 plants such as soybeans and wheat and a positive but not as strong a response for C4 plants such as corn.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

As the company moved forward with the project, it destroyed fields of corn, beans, coffee, and bananas, as well as a solar plant that generated electricity for the community.

Chiefio also found some interesting quotes pointing out that corn (a C4 plant) absorbs more C13, and our mass fields of corn might just muck up the stats... (it's a good post).

Under these realistic field conditions, elevated carbon dioxide boosted yields of soybean and corn only half as much as it did for plants in enclosures.

By contrast, control fields were planted to a greater diversity of crops and employed an array of management practices to control corn rootworm (Table 1).

The Lincolnland Agri - Energy ethanol plant, a local co-op, looms beyond a field of scorched corn in Palestine, Illinois.

Economists have recently done field studies to determine just how much the feedstocks — the grasses, wood chips, straw, or corn stover — actually cost to grow, harvest, and get to a biofuels plant.