Sentences with phrase «previous years crop»

Probably safe, but I don't like the bully boy ways that Monsanto and the other giants use on farmers to force them to continue to buy new seed every year at high prices rather than hold a portion of the previous years crop back.

Not exact matches

California growers agree that the crop this year is a good one, but not nearly the size of the record crop from the previous year.

Earlier crop reports had projected a 30 % decline in volume, but new reports now estimate only a 6 % decline from the previous year.

Based on current estimates, the combined Northern and Southern Hemisphere crops should be much closer to the results of the previous five years average, compared to the much larger than average crop of last year.

Crop inputs and dairy goods supplier Land O'Lakes has reported record earnings in 2015 — although total sales were down almost $ 2bn on the previous year.

Bales of oaten hay that tested less than 20 per cent WSC have often been produced from paddocks that had grown vetch crops the previous year.

The result is down from the $ 4.9 million delivered in the previous corresponding period, but this was due to a longer growing season in which the 2016 winter crop harvest was extended into January this year resulting in some of the profit being held over until the second half of the financial year.

AIFI continued to follow the garlic trend into 2017 and noticed that the previous years shortage had carried into the new crop season.

The record large 2016 - 17 wheat crop of 33.5 million tonnes was 9 million tonnes bigger than the previous harvest while October to December wheat exports were close to unchanged on a year ago.

The 2017 - 18 NBA season has stood out from previous years in part because of its otherworldly crop of offensive talents, but even more so because of its outright ridiculousness.

And the newer crop of 70 years old performed far better than the previous generation did.

Humans domesticated the sweet potato in the Peruvian highlands about 8000 years ago, and previous generations of scholars believed that Spanish and Portuguese explorers introduced the crop to Southeast Asia and the Pacific beginning in the 16th century.

In 2007 - 08, harvests of staple crops such as barley and wheat fell by 67 per cent and 47 per cent, respectively, compared to the previous year.

More than 90 % of America's figs come from California, where the first harvest of the season — the breba crop, which is collected from branches that sprouted the previous year — starts in June, and the main harvest gets underway in August.

shall apply to all CBOT Soybean Meal futures contracts delivered during a one calendar year period beginning with January following the soybean crop year ending August 31, provided that there are on a weekly average at least 150 CBOT Soybean Meal Shipping Certificates outstanding in all Soybean Meal delivery territories combined during that previous soybean crop year.

Even so, I don't see why an extra 10 years of life expectancy makes the current crop of sandwichees more special than previous generations.

This was a party at which a new year began and ended all the previous «crop year» between the months of May to June, and also began the new agricultural cycle from July, so the period since the last week of June and early July was a period of transition from an old agricultural year to a new one, then the party was dedicated to that event.

The crop of honorees represents a decline in number from previous years.

That's why burning fossil fuels increases atmospheric CO2, while burning crop - based biofuels does not — biofuel carbon was in the atmosphere the previous year.

Even if the cut area is replaced with food crops (as has happened in the Amazon as part of the biofuel misadventure), it takes years before the rate of CO2 absorption rises to the previous level, and with some crops, it may never happen.

While 2008 had horrible floods in the midwest, we still produced the second largest corn crop on record, while using less fertilizer than previous years, due to more efficient planting and growing methods,

Matthew paris notes; now this past year was very dissimilar to all previous years that is it was unhealthy and mortal stormy and exceedingly rainy so much so that although in summer time the harvest seemed promising by the time of autumn continual heavy rains choked the crops.