Sentences with phrase «produce good crops»

Most take 5 - 7 years before they begin producing a good crop of fruit.

«So, the idea,» she said, «was they did everything right to produce their best crop — their best seed, they fertilized it, they irrigated it — whatever they needed to do, but they just didn't control the weeds in the untreated plots, so we could see what kind of yield loss impact that would have.»

The findings could pave the way to new techniques to engineer plants to produce better crops or to turn off certain genes.

Its mission is to provide Ontario greenhouse floriculture growers with timely, technical information to produce the best crops, OMAFRA specialists are contributing to the ONfloriculture blog.

The farmer will want to know you can be relied upon to produce the best crop or product possible, with minimal direction.

Its mission is to provide Ontario greenhouse floriculture growers with timely, technical information to produce the best crops, OMAFRA specialists are contributing to the ONfloriculture blog.

Its mission is to provide Ontario greenhouse floriculture growers with timely, technical information to produce the best crops, OMAFRA specialists are contributing to the ONfloriculture blog.

If Organized Real Estate wants to produce a good crop of apples, it should hire only apples in the first place and polish them up instead of hiring oranges and then hoping that a few will take apple lessons and thence morph into actual apples whilst the oranges - forever inevitably fall by the wayside, scripted or no.

Not exact matches

Vineyards produce the best return on an acre out of any agricultural crop.»

New Crop Capital's investments include a $ 1.2 M seed round to Sunfed Meats, which produces «chicken - free chicken» made of pea protein, as well as a seed investment in Ocean Hugger Foods, which has developed ahimi, a tomato - based substitute for raw tuna.

15 But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.

«Through their ongoing engagement with suppliers, they are well positioned to have a voice in ensuring those who farm and produce the crop are doing so in a way that respects both the environment and the people who grow it.»

We also help them with improved farming methods, environmentally responsible practices, crop yield increases, and producing better coffee.

«Palm oil is already widely used in food manufacture and for good reason; oil palms are highly efficient oil producers requiring ten times less land than other oil - producing crops.

Rosemary and her team firmly believe in supporting local suppliers and produce, sourcing the best of the seasons crops, while keeping the carbon footprint and food miles low.

This makes the third year in a row that California's predominate variety produced a healthy sized crop, thus keeping winery tanks brimming with wine destined for both case good demands and surplus bulk.

The garden has produced a bumper crop of apples this year, the cherries didn't do so well and what little we had the birds got.

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

Hydroponic Grower Jim Duffy reports from San Diego: «Well I have to say, Dave, that my «Trinidad Scorpion» crop was not the amount I wanted to produce.

It requires addressing interlocked issues encompassing many of the Global Goals — including water, climate change and land degradation, but also access to finance, gender equality and even literacy, which all affect farmers» ability to produce good quality crops.

As well as his commitment to the highest - quality, native, sustainable produce, he has also lobbied against GM crops and taken part in educational programs to improve the diet of children in his country.

With a new approach, Track Coaches Mihaly Igloi of Hungary and Bill Bowerman of Oregon are producing America's best and biggest crop of distance runners

Prioritizing renewable materials generally produced from agricultural crops, such as organic cotton, wool, sisal, cork, and bamboo, and products made from wood derived from certified well - managed forests is part of this mindset.

He explained that the open system farming would be used to grow the crop, adding that improved varieties would be made available to the farmers so as to produce better yield.

Recommendations include crop rotation best suited to local soils; organically derived pesticides and herbicides; locally produced composted and manure fertilizers; and mulch tillage.

The average crop requires about ten parts nitrogen to one part phosphorus for robust growth; living plants must maintain a delicate balance between the two nutrients to produce at their best.

The average crop requires about ten units of nitrogen to one unit of phosphorus for robust growth; living plants must maintain a delicate balance between the two nutrients to produce at their best.

The trees are five years old and and between five and seven years is when they start producing really good crops.

A hardier corn plant could also bode well for well - established row crop areas, including portions of the U.S. Corn Belt, where changing climate conditions are producing environmental stressors such as prolonged drought.

Its agricultural division has also been very profitable, thanks to a best - selling herbicide called Roundup, as well as a range of genetically modified crops that are resistant to Roundup or that produce their own insecticide.

Synthetic incompatibility may make it possible to use crops to produce medications as well as food, feed and fuel.

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.

«Before transgenic plants containing PAT will get clearance, there must be studies to see what concentrations of the herbicide are present in harvested crops, as well as what chemicals are produced in the crop when PAT deactivates Basta.

Professor Martin A. J. Parry of the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) said: «Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis — the way crops turn carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into everything we can eat — may seem ambitious but for us it offers the best opportunity for producing the scale of change in crop yield that we need to feed a growing global population in a changing world climate.»

Farmers eager to increase their crop yields turned to commercial beekeepers, who offered up massive wooden hives stocked with queen bees genetically selected to produce colonies of good pollinators.

To better understand the domestication history of the world's most produced crop, Wales and his colleagues, including Jazmín Ramos - Madrigal, sequenced the genome of a 5,310 - year - old maize cob from central Mexico.

They found that generally, letting the cover crop grow longer produces the best, if not perfect, results.

The farmers pay good money for human waste; it produces bumper crops.

Crop plants which have been genetically modified to produce pesticides provide a good example of this ambiguity, he says.

Given that most fishes convert feed to flesh much more efficiently than cows, as well as producing healthier food and contributing less methane to the atmosphere, an alternative would be to reduce beef production and instead use available land to grow crops for fish feed.

Best known for identifying and cloning the desaturase gene in Arabidopsis, which is responsible for the synthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids in plants, Browse has since been a leader in the effort to bioengineer crop plants to produce oils with increased levels of heart - healthy monounsaturated fatty acids.

In February 2009, frustrated by industry restrictions on independent research into genetically modified crops, two dozen scientists representing public research institutions in 17 corn - producing states told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the companies producing genetically modified (GM) seed «inhibit public scientists from pursuing their mandated role on behalf of the public good» and warned that industry influence had made independent analyses of transgenic crops impossible.

Enzymes are produced by plants and microbes in order to increase the uptake of elements as well as assist in the synthesis, within the crop, of raw materials that are necessary to produce completely nutrient - dense foods suitable for consumption by livestock and humans.

It was a particularly heartening year for homegrown cinema, as the oft - maligned UK film industry produced such gems as Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Daniel and Matthew Wolfe's Catch Me Daddy, Debbie Tucker Green's Second Coming, and Rufus Norris's ambitious stage - to - screen transfer London Road.The cream of the crop for me, however, was Carol Morley's infinitely intriguing The Falling, a film that echoed the best work of Nic Roeg and established its director as one of the most exciting talents of her generation.

The company produces salt (primarily used by cities for deicing roads but has many consumer and industrial uses as well), specialty potash (a premium fertilizer that improves the quality, yield, and shelf life of high - value fruit, vegetable, and tree nut crops), micronutrients (essential minerals that maximize plant yields), and magnesium chloride (used in numerous ways including roadway deicing, dust control, and as plant nutrients for wheat crops).

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fuel.

with good people who care about the land that we farm, the soil in which we plant, the seed and crops we grow and harvest, and the livestock we raise to produce quality products for people and their pets.

A search for Luxury Hotel Collection properties in Maui produced only six results, all good quality with five - star reviews but admittedly not the cream of the crop on this island.

As well as the wineries, some breweries have opened up and other producers have set up to take advantage of the fertile soils of the area, cultivating produce ranging from olives to lavender to cereal crops.

Bettering your farm allows you to raise whatever crops and adorable animals you want, selling the produce to earn money to invest further into your farm and the main village itself.