Sentences with phrase «test plots»

It's tried and tested plot fodder for the series, offering an excuse for the mass slaughter, and enough explanation for those unfamiliar to the source material.

In 2008, with Silver and her team monitoring, they spread half an inch of compost over test plots.

Abdel Berrada, former manager for the Southwest Colorado Research Center in Yellow Jacket, discusses the hemp test plot of the station run by Colorado State University.

These resistant varieties, which include rapeseed, maize and sugar beet, are now growing in test plots in the US, France, Britain and Canada.

They are helping fund the Industrial Hemp test plot in Hawaii.

• Initiate and manage research test plots and trials, testing various products from various companies and provide detailed reports regarding observations for company compensation that allows for extensive knowledge of new and emerging product performance.

It is one of few firms in the industry to have a doctor of agronomy as well as a master agronomist conducting field test plots throughout the country as a long - term investment.

It is one of a few firms in the industry to have a doctor of agronomy as well as a master agronomist conducting field test plots throughout the country as a long - term investment.

They distributed it by drones and four - wheelers in small test plots in seven states to limit prairie dog carriers.

Kaiser's research team planted corn of different relative maturities at test plots in Minnesota at different spring dates to simulate early, on - time and late planting.

They tilled it into test plots just outside the LCCS site.

Today, Aquiares is the main test plot for an ongoing project between the CIRAD Institute from France and CATIE University from Costa Rica.

(Have seen both the pointed and round types) We are doing test plots here in Ecuador with both types and...

Correction, Aug. 27, 2013: This article originally misstated the date of the attack on the golden rice test plot.

Scientists have already grown small test plots aboard the ISS.

Using a six - square - mile test plot, they found that the organic carbon comes from shallow ponds that were dug to provide soil for flood protection.

Thus far, no genetically modified animals have thrived in the wild — unlike some of the GMO plants that have spread beyond test plots.

«In test plots where crabs were excluded, we found that vegetation loss was significantly lower and many plants could survive the drought,» said Qiang He, a postdoctoral researcher in Silliman's lab.

Grolm accuses labs like biovativ of deliberate sloppiness, saying they intentionally mislabel test plots and allow seeds and pollen from experimental plants to contaminate nearby fields.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Just after midnight on 14 July, three female activists clad in white HAZMAT suits and wielding motorized grass trimmers broke into an agricultural test plot near the capital, Canberra, operated by CSIRO, Australia's preeminent research organization.

More troubling to some are signs that rice yields have been declining in recent years on some of the IRRI's best test plots and other top - producing sites.

Cultivate sorghum test plots of engineered and wild - type lines, collect initial phenotypic data, including lodging and pest susceptibility

WSU Puyallup researchers inspect the sprinkler system used to simulate rain events on the asphalt test plot.

The narrative of the game was the tried and tested plot device of rescuing the girlfriend, but although the plot was cliched the opening scene with the garage shutter going up just as the kidnapping took place, has become iconic and often lampooned.

We further recommend that such research includes planting test plots in the United States using modern agricultural techniques.»

Stephanie Boucier, Farm Fuels» chief executive officer and research coordinator, said trials of mustard seed meal are ongoing at Pajaro Valley test plots.

Key Highlights: • Initiate and manage research test plots and trials, testing various products from various companies and provide detailed reports regarding observations for company compensation that allows for extensive knowledge of new and emerging product performance.

Recently, West Virginia's governor signed into law a bill to allow hemp cultivation, and Hawaii's governor is expected to sign legislation that will extend for 5 years the one - acre hemp test plot research program in that state.

Aaron Mali (front) and Oulu Coquie (back) till biosolids into test plots, one of the first steps in transforming a blighted area into a functioning ecosystem.

The effort to develop and test the new strains has involved shuttling them from research centers in Syria and Mexico back to test plots in Africa, according to the organizers of the conference.

The director of the Institute or Soils, Juan Migueal, provided an overview of research projects and then let his staff present their understanding of how soil conditions (healthy or not) contribute to agricultural productions Their recent focus on cover crops in agriculture allowed for the delegates to visit their test plots despite the previous weather conditions throughout the day.

But upon close examination of their test plots, they concluded that honey bees were responsible for the cross-pollination, and that «the wind accounts for only a very small percent, if any, of the cross-pollination that takes place in this crop.»

While the first day was dedicated to updates by HIA national and chapter leadership, the next day entailed a bus field trip first to the University of Kentucky's nearby hemp test plots, where researchers gave poster presentations followed by lunch, and then to visit two companies heavily engaged in growing the hemp industry in KY, Atalo Holdings and GenCanna.

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.

Winter wheat harvested from his test plot culminated in Breadworks» «Local's Loaf,» made entirely from the freshly ground wheat on Greg's countertop stone mill.

«It's a test plot because we're not sure which native species will do the best,» said Joe Benedict, director of environmental services.

Normally, Ortner said, farmers use about 200 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre, but now he's down to about 135 pounds per acre on the test plot.

* EPA scientists find engineered genes in wild grasses 13 miles away from a test plot of genetically modified creeping bent grass.

«They have test plots and protocols, and managers to make sure everything is done consistently.

«We're able to take our research findings and implement them in a park which is significantly larger than test plots or the traditional residential turf areas.

After three years, it covered 95 percent of test plots.

Bowman intentionally made mistakes on one test plot — «areas where we didn't apply enough nitrogen fertilizer, where we simulated mistakes in the applicator, where we shut the boom off for a short period of time or plugged it up and ran for a while,» Bowman said.

One April morning, he found that four seedling trees in a 2.5 - acre test plot were putting forth leaves at least a week before all the other trees.

Researchers increased temperatures at the test plots by 3.4 degrees C, an increase that might happen by the end of the 21st century, and learned that plants grown and measured at those higher temperatures increased their leaf respiration by an average 5 percent, compared to plants in ambient temperatures.

PGE is growing a test plot of the giant reed, said PGE spokesman, Steve Corson.

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.