Sentences with phrase «soil conditions for»

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Those who make the effect of prayer on material conditions the test of its efficacy have little rootage for their ideas in New Testament soil.

In neglecting to take seriously the claim of historic Christian authors that changes in the habits and condition of the body open the soil to insight, we ignore a useful tool for the resolution and regeneration of mind and body.

It is not surprising that the slums in our cities, where there is an intense struggle for basic necessities, have become scenes of violent conflict, M.N. Srinivas, the eminent sociologist, observes «The richest soil for communal frenzy to build on is poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and slum — like conditions — all of which are m plenty in urban India» (India Today, January 16 - 31, 1993).

They care for eight hundred animals, working long hours in conditions often uncomfortable and unpleasant because they love this soil where their ancestors walked, they consider themselves stewards of God's creation, and they feel called to feed the hungry.

Italy's Alto Adige region offers perfect growing conditions for Sauvignon Blanc and the sandy and limy soil give the wines great personality.

Organic matter does this either by «gluing» soil particles together or creating favorable living conditions for soil microorganisms, which in turn can «glue» soil particles together through production of various organic compounds such as glomalin or by the action of fungal hyphae (Sylvia et al., 2005).

These seeds are grown under conditions mandated by the National Standard for Organic Agriculture, including rigorous soil testing and use of approved fertilizers and pest controls.

«Ireland's rich soils and lush grasslands provide favorable conditions for its traditional, low - intensity pasture - based dairy production system.

They are grown in the Alta Val D'Agri, a valley with perfect soil and climate conditions for this plant.

Respect for nature and environment, from the impact of winds and weather conditions, to the porous soil so critical to the aromatic expression of the grapes.

Detailed inputs including materials, labour and growth conditions, fruit yields, incidence of weeds and pests were recorded for both systems so as to compare the economic viability, energy flow and soil environments of the two systems.

Organic producers look for productive varieties suited to their local climatic and soil conditions and that are not susceptible to disease and pest attack.

With a greater day - to - night temperature swing than any other appellation in California, distinct microclimates, diverse soils and a long growing season, Paso Robles is a unique wine region blessed with optimal growing conditions for producing premium and ultra-premium wines.

Under European conditions, organic agriculture performs better than conventional agriculture with regard to certain parameters: for example, 30 to 100 percent higher microbial activity3 and a significantly higher biomass (+30 to 40 percent), density (+ 50 to 80 percent) and species diversity of earthworms, a key soil - macro faunal species4.

The large, steep south - facing slope of the Grand Cru Saarburger Rausch vineyard, its rough Devonian shale soil and the cool climate of the Saar, are perfect conditions for the beginnings of this fine vermouth.

There are few places on earth where climate and soils combine to provide just the right conditions for this noble grape.

This fixture was originally pencilled in for a December date, the same month the Tangerines were scheduled to play host to Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, however the bitterly cold conditions over the festive period meant the Seasiders went well over a month without hosting any Premiership football because of a lack of under - soil heating at their ground, something the club have confirmed on numerous occasions will be rectified in the summer regardless of whether they stay in this division or not.

While April is too soon to plant most crops outside in the Chicagoland area, experts say it's the perfect time to plan the garden's layout and prepare the soil to get it conditioned for summer vegetables.

Also, educate them about the types of soil and climatic conditions suitable for each plant.

Half of all poppies produced for noscapine are in Australia, and the rest are mostly in India, France, Turkey and Hungary, making global noscapine output subject to local environmental events and to varying soil and nutrient conditions.

After acclimating them for a year outdoors in full sun with sparse water and nutrient - poor soil — typical conditions for this alpine species, Pinus mugo — ran a 56 - day indoor experiment using high - intensity UV - B - emitting lamps.

Earthworms, for example, make their burrows differently when microplastics are present in the soil, affecting the earthworm's fitness and the soil condition.

They improve soil conditions by aerating the ground as they tunnel their way to the surface and provide a nutrient - rich — if infrequent — diet for many species of birds.

«We determined the wheat cover crop will not affect the soil water availability nor the yield for the succeeding cotton crop substantially under the simulated conditions,» Ale said.

Glover and others have also found that training women with small - scale farms, in Malawi and elsewhere in Africa, in perennial cropping techniques leads to improved nutrition for families, greater soil and agricultural resilience during fluctuations in weather conditions and sometimes, a little extra income.

«A large portion of the flowering plants, or angiosperms, depended on the insects for pollination, and insects were a major factor in creating the soil conditions on which the plants grew,» Wilson says.

He said many people have expressed interest in olive production either for a small acreage or a larger commercial operation, so he has teamed with fellow AgriLife Extension horticulturists Drs. Larry Stein of Uvalde and Jim Kamas of Fredericksburg to determine the best growing conditions, soil types, varieties and fertility needs.

But before you could conclude that your forest is older than one in the next state, you'd have to allow for complicating factors that affect a tree's growth rate — soil conditions, for instance.

The differences remained even when soil conditions and rainfall were controlled for.

Unusually rainy weather created perfect conditions for the insects to lay their eggs in damp, sandy soil every two or three months, swelling their numbers tenfold with each new generation.

The contaminated soil was aged for two months at 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) in sealed tubs to allow PCBs to fully leach into the soil and thereby better represent real - life conditions.

Jennifer Schweitzer, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and co-author of the paper, said forest managers and conservationists may consider accounting for a tree's microscopic soil creatures in the future, as they could determine how quickly species march toward cooler conditions.

For saturated soil conditions, it is an order of magnitude worse, with 8000 buildings within all hazard zones, 5000 of those within the two highest hazard zones.

The number of terpenes formed depends on external factors, for example the soil conditions or hours of sunshine.

For dry soil conditions, there are more than 1000 buildings that are within all hazard zones, 400 of those in the two highest hazard designation zones.

Cotton breeders are being challenged to release new varieties suitable for drought - like conditions and high salinity soils, and that are also better able to resist constant threats from pests and diseases.

For example, at an ancestral Pueblo settlement in Blue J, N.M, the researchers were able to map detailed architectural plans of a dozen ancient house compounds — a discovery enabled by the site's optimal conditions, the soil matrix, low density ground cover, and the environmental conditions at the time of the aerial thermography.

It took Asner and his team eight years to develop a technique that can detect and quantify selective logging by analyzing each pixel in the image for spectral data — which contains information about the extent of vegetation in the forest canopy, the amount of debris on the forest floor and how much bare soil is exposed — while also taking into consideration climate conditions.

MPL, launched in 1998, was to have landed less than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the planet's south pole to collect soil and ice samples for analysis and to gauge meteorological conditions.

Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent the past four years looking for signs of active microbial life in permafrost soil taken from one of the coldest, oldest and driest places on Earth: in University Valley, located in the high elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, where extremely cold and dry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 years.

WATCHING termites construct a high - rise, air - conditioned apartment block out of the red Kenyan soil, or a colony of ants in the rainforest sewing leaves together to build a miniature metropolis, makes you wonder where the intelligence for such intricate engineering comes from.

«Visible or near - infrared bands typically used for crop monitoring are mainly sensitive to the upper canopy, but provide little information about deeper vegetation and soil conditions affecting crop water status and yield,» says John Kimball from University of Montana, a long - term collaborator with Guan and a coauthor of the paper.

Unusually, many of its genes code for proteins that help shuttle materials into or out of the cell, which marks the bacterium as a generalist equipped to deal with a broad range of soil conditions and food sources.

Research showed that wet conditions (as indicated for the cultivars under test) reduced annual yield of sweet cherry, strongly affecting fruit quality, and often overriding cultivar and soil and water management effects.

His team found cultivars such as TAM 111 and TAM 112 can use soil water more efficiently, which is important for producers to better manage wheat under dryland and limited - irrigation conditions.

But even under ideal temperature and moisture conditions, productivity gains will be dependent on local site conditions, such as where there are sufficient soil nutrients or where stand density is low and little competition exists for available resources (Ford et al. 2016).

e FERREIRA AJD Soil water repellency under dry and wet antecedent weather conditions for selected land - cover types in the coastal zone of central Portugal (2005) Australian Journal of Soil Research, vol.43, 3, pp.297 - 308 DOI: NA

Soil and rocks on the Earth's surface reveal the advance and retreat of glaciers over the land surface, and fossilized pollen traces out rough boundaries of where the climate conditions were right for different species of plants and trees to live.

The interdependence among organisms and their environments sustains the conditions needed for survival by all living creatures: clean air and water, crop pollination, pest control, climate regulation, soil nutrients, and a diversity of plants and creatures, among other things.