Sentences with phrase «planting field crops»

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.

Not exact matches

Israeli startup Prospera recently attracted $ 7 million to fund its approach, which is to install cameras along with other sensors in fields and compare crops «leaf by leaf» with its database of thousands of plants to identify problems like pests, parasites and nutrient deficiencies.

He violates Lev.19: 19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton / polyester blend).

On this farm, besides plowing fields, planting crops, and working horses, he writes novels and poems and essays.

My father was a small crop farmer in that he grew many various plants within a small field.

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

Every field is carefully fenced in with paling formed of the mid-ribs of the palmyra - leaf, or by rows of prickly plants, aloes, cactus, euphorbias, and others; and every one is divided into small beds, each containing a different crop; but the most frequent and valuable crops are the ingredients for the preparation of curry; such as onions and chilies, which are exported to all parts of the coast and carried in large quantities into the interior.

Untreated manure of all types has the potential to pose a food safety risk, and farmers, organic and conventional alike, have traditionally mitigated this risk by applying manure to their fields early in the season before they have planted the crop.

Crops are planted, fields are inspected, and harvest, storage and transportation equipment is dedicated and inspected to insure purity and quality.

At Rodale Institute, Ross is responsible for field maintenance including planting and seeding, maintaining the farm equipment necessary to work the fields, and expanding the livestock operations, particularly the vertical integration of the poultry and hog operations into crop rotations.

Indoor and vertical farming requires less space than traditional field crops and can bring plants to areas they may not normally be.

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.

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

The Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI) strictly monitors field trials, coordinates evaluation of biosafety information, and approves GM crops if appropriate.

To continue building my capacity in the field of plant pathology so I can provide farmers with practical scientific solutions to reducing in - crop and post-harvest losses, thereby contributing to sustainable food production, increased financial stability and food security.

Apart from the better food resources in organic fields, the key factors are more fauna - compatible plant protection management, organic fertilization, the more diversified crop rotation and the more structured landscapes with semi-natural habitats and field margins.

The scientists studied crops at a Tokyo research field, including cabbages and potatoes that were planted a few weeks after rains showered the field with radioisotopes from Fukushima.

But few municipal sewage plants want the extra expense of drying the sludge, and so it is instead exported «live» in tanker trucks that spray the wet slurry onto crop fields, along roadsides, and into forests.

The second goal is to prove that the technology works in a crop plant in field conditions.

How much does planting biofuels instead of crops lead to the spread of agricultural fields, cutting down yet more forests?

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.

Among proposed changes: more widespread adoption of so - called no - till farming, a practice that involves leaving unharvested crop stalks and other plant matter behind in the field undisturbed by plows and other soil - agitating instruments.

To date, we have dispatched 9.7 million forest, horticultural, and cash crop plant species for field plantation.

Most conventional farmers only plant one crop per field or plot.

Once the fields were planted and growing, researchers studied the height of the plants in the fields, the amount of grain harvested from each crop, and the amount and quality of protein contained in the grains, among other things.

«We dug plants up from the field and brought them into warm greenhouses in Illinois and South Dakota every month from October through March,» says Lee, an agronomist in the Department of Crop Sciences at U of I. «The only lighting was the sun, so the plants had to react to the ambient photoperiod, or day length.»

The study is part of a larger field of research that aims to understand when, where and how humans turned wild plants and animals into the crops, pets and livestock we know today.

The Global Crop Diversity Trust has said the planned bulldozing of the field collection will «forever tarnish a cause that generations of Russian plant scientists have lived and, quite literally, died to protect.»

Partly, this is because a field planted entirely in edible crops lets one feed far more mouths than a forest with scattered edible plants.

Under agricultural fields, insufficient sunshine due to unusual weather, or natural disasters such as flooding, strongly inhibits energy acquisition in crop plants.

It can even be mixed with seed when crops are planted, so farmers do not have to go back over their fields later to fertilize them.

The science may be there, but the money isn't Traditionally, plant breeders scan fields in search of favorable traits in crops and collect seeds of the best varieties to save.

But such simple steps as leaving slash — the plant waste left over after crop production — on fields after harvests, so it could be incorporated into the soil, could reintroduce between 0.4 and 1.1 gigatons of carbon annually to soil, the study says.

The obstacle to the other crops being adopted is that there just hasn't been enough plant breeding done to sufficiently improve perennial wheat and sorghum and test them in farmers» fields.

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

An Indian advisory panel has called for a decadelong moratorium on field trials of genetically modified plants, including cotton (above) and food crops.

There are several strategies for implementing perenniation, Glover said, including the use of evergreen agriculture: planting perennial trees within a field of annual crops.

The strategy involves planting desmodium, a perennial legume that stops the eggs of pests from thriving, amid crops and planting Napier grass, another perennial, along the field's perimeter.

Sanchez later led a project in Peru that dramatically increased rice yields and headed a center in Kenya that upgrades soil, and thus expands food production, by planting nitrogen - fixing trees in crop fields.

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.

By going to 300 - meter resolution — closer to the size of fragmented forests and crop fields — FLEX should allow plant physiologists to understand how specific plants respond to different environmental stresses.

Farmers are also trying to thwart resistance by growing plants that lack the Bt toxins near their fields, cultivating populations of normal insects that could swamp the resistance genes, says Randy Deaton, a Bt researcher at Monsanto, which developed some Bt crops.

A plant breeder discovers his experimental crops have been «contaminated» with genes from a neighboring field.

Some growers plant too little of their fields with Bt crops, and some don't plant refuge crops at all.

Compared to fields growing conventional crops, those planted with GM varieties of beet and oilseed rape (canola) have fewer weeds — which is a goal of genetic engineering.

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

By growing trees, shrubs and other perennial plants among crops in the field, African farmers can revitalize some badly depleted soils while raising food yields

Double cropping is the planting of two crops in the same field in a single growing season.

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.