Sentences with phrase «to produce crops»

Students are then challenged to produce a crop of plants that can grow everywhere in a field by taking advantage of the small variation in root type from one generation to the next.

When looking at disease losses, the most devastating ones occur post harvest, as these include the entire costs incurred in producing the crop.

The approach was quite organic, although the intent was to produce crops with the highest nutritional value.

Not all farmers grow vegetables or raise cows, but they face equally difficult obstacles in producing their crops.

With planting flexibility, farmers are not confined to growing the historically produced crops for which they are receiving direct payments»

The ground produces a crop by itself first the blade, then the ear, then the full grown crown in the ear; but as soon as the crop is ripe, he plies the sickle, because harvest time has come.

The ground produces a crop by itself first the blade, then...

The farms produce crops on 8,000 acres in Idaho and Utah.

For example, in Australia approximately one third of organically produced crops and livestock is sold in the conventional market1.

Designing plants on a computer could help farmers produce the crops they want more quickly and efficiently; explores a revolution in agriculture

This fourth soil produces a crop that is one hundred times more abundant than what was sown.

In fact, 18 percent (FAO data) of the global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by livestock breeding and a third of the Earth's soil (excluding glaciers) is now used for grazing animals and for producing crops destined to feed them.

Dandam said that the funds would be disbursed to the 1,000 selected farmers as grant in order to massively produce the crop so as to avert scarcity during wet season.

But beyond the top combatants, the bitter Democratic primary for Mr. Rangel's seat produced another crop of winners and losers.

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.

Tomatoes and cucumbers are among the top greenhouse - produced crops worldwide, he said.

This year's edition produced a crop of potential acting nominees, including Frances McDormand for «Three Billboards,» Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland for «The Leisure Seeker» and Lawrence for «mother!»

This fact created high stress for the community, since its main industry is farming and the farms can't produce crops in a drought.

Pimentel noted that although cash crops can not be grown as frequently over time on organic farms because of the dependence on cultural practices to supply nutrients and control pests and because labor costs average about 15 percent higher in organic farming systems, the higher prices that organic foods command in the marketplace still make the net economic return per acre either equal to or higher than that of conventionally produced crops.

British farmers who grow tomatoes and strawberries often rely on heated greenhouses to produce crops outside the short fruit season in Britain.

However, the USDA does oversee the National Organic Program (NOP) that provides the regulations and standards for organically produced crops and livestock in the U.S..

«We have to figure out ways to reduce the amount of products that bees are exposed to while still helping farmers produce their crops,» vanEngelsdorp said.

This project will discover genes that control cuticle development and function in corn, evaluate the potential for improvement of the leaf cuticle to help produce crops with increased drought tolerance and resistance to diseases, and generate tools to guide these efforts.

He calls for a second agricultural revolution - we've had the green revolution which increased harvests to feed a growing world population but at the expense of water supplies (the new high - producing crops tend to use more water than traditional varieties)- now we need a blue revolution before the gains of the past generations are wiped out - all easy things to say but difficult to put into practice!

Farming is used to produce crops for activities such as Cooking, Animal Lore, and sowing new crops.

Firstly, to be sustainable, the amount of energy gained in growing and utilizing an energy crop must exceed that used in producing the crop.

Australia's start - up culture has produced a crop of digital - era companies that have reached substantial scale and reach.

Some lack the necessary land or resources to produce crops and many farmers have been displaced by the armed conflict in the country.

Irma threatened $ 1.2 billion in Florida's produce crops.

What if we understood Christians to be only those who «hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop» (Mark 4:20)?

26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.

«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.»

«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.

Australia's start - up culture has produced a crop of digital - era companies that have reached substantial scale and reach.

There is a growing concern that the fast expanding and globalized competitive world market is causing decline in grower returns and expansion of urban development and environmental regulations causing production cost increases and challenging the viability and sustainability of producing these crops.

Some lack the necessary land or resources to produce crops and many farmers have been displaced by the armed conflict in the country.

If I used conventional breeding to produce a crop that was herbicide tolerant or GE to produce one, they would still be the same.

For irrigation, shares were apportioned according to crude 19th - century notions of how much water was needed to get 40 acres of dry soil to produce a crop.

The researchers found that irrigation accounts for about 25 percent of water used to produce crops and for 16 percent of water used in meat production in China.

These provinces all use large volumes of water to produce crops that are later exported to wetter regions.