Sentences with phrase «wheat crop»

«I do not mean agriculture in the sense of wheat crops,» he says.

Any producer will tell you, growing a healthy, high - yielding wheat crop takes skill and hard work.

In the study, the researchers systematically tested 30 different wheat crop models against field experiments in which growing season mean temperatures ranged from 15 °C to 26 °C.

Scientists have found a genetic mechanism that could stop the spread of a «devastating» disease threatening wheat crops.

If you are going to eat wheat frequently, I recommend choosing a sprouted wheat or an ancient grain wheat (this means it is from a more nutritious wheat crop).

Historical (dark shading) and recent (light shading) distribution of WSS in wheat crops in the northern Great Plains of the US.

In fact, this article and chart explain how increased glyphosate use on wheat crops may be partially to blame for the rising rates of celiac disease, comparing the increased incidence of celiac with increased glyphosate use:

Australian Crop Forecasters founder Ron Storey said any problems with wheat crops in the northern hemisphere could see prices rise.

Click here to read about action research led by Dina Najjar, Social and Gender Specialist at ICARDA, to increase women's income generation and contributions to food security, while addressing structural inequalities in access to inputs and services such as information, training, and microcredit, in wheat cropping systems in Nigeria and Sudan.

The price of wheat has risen by 8 1/2 per cent in the past three months, as adverse weather conditions in Europe have reduced the expected size of the world wheat crop for 2003/04.

Researchers with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are closer to helping producers better meet global food demand, now that they've combined simulation and statistical methods to help them predict how temperature affects wheat crops worldwide.

Early winter means that temperatures will start rising in February when wheat crop reaches the grain formation stage.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture designated 16 counties in Pennsylvania as natural disaster areas because of severe damage to corn, forage crops, soybeans, oats, and wheat crops due to drought.

To the north, in the Dakotas and Canada, crop losses may be high from the reverse climatic trend: excess soil moisture and flooding.Bloomberg reports in Worst Texas Drought in 44 Years Damaging Wheat Crop, Reducing Cattle Herds

«Ray of hope for more abundant wheat crops: Crops such as wheat could be up to 21 percent more efficient at turning the sun's energy into food.»

The research team used a stable isotope of nitrogen, N - 15, as a tracer to track fertilizer nitrogen applied in 1982 to sugar beet and winter wheat crops on a pair of two - metre - square plots at a site in France.

«Climate change puts wheat crops at risk of disease.»

* Spring wheat yield seen at 45.5 bu / acre, up 8 pct vs 2011 * Tour pegs durum yield at 42.6 bu / acre, up 34 pct vs 2011 * Three - day tour concludes Thursday in Fargo, North Dakota (New throughout; changes dateline from previous BOTTINEAU, North Dakota) By Julie Ingwersen DEVILS LAKE, North Dakota, July 25 (Reuters)- Favorable growing conditions should result in above - average yields for the U.S. spring and durum wheat crops in northwest...

Among the most damaging diseases that affect wheat crops across the world are rusts.

BLASTED FUNGUS Wheat blast fungus (shown here increasingly close up) is a threat to wheat crops worldwide.

«Introducing Organic to Producers of Grain - Only and Dual - Purpose Wheat Cropping Systems of Northern Texas» is an integrated grant project that includes research, Extension and education components, Adams said.

We can handle the odd year like 2010 when drought reduced the Russian wheat crop by a quarter, flood wiped out a substantial portion of Pakistan's crop, and then Autsralia's that winter, but what about when it starts to happen year after year?

During severe epidemics, wheat crop losses can be as much as sixty per cent.

Bayer CropScience is a world leader in wheat seed sales and in development of next generation high - yielding wheat crops using biotechnologies.

He had to deal with a severe famine caused by the failure of the Egyptian wheat crop.

According to the USDA, white wheat accounts for at most 10 - 15 % of America's total wheat crop.1 But this proportion has been changing rapidly.

Recent years have seen deteriorating protein levels in organic wheat crops, farmers are struggling to manage weeds while conserving moisture and general fertility issues are arising.

Growing a backyard wheat crop when he was the western Victorian rural reporter seemed fun until he had to sow every seed by hand.

BCPC rejected claims that contamination of neighbouring wheat crops would occur, saying that «numerous measures», approved by ACRE, had been taken to prevent the escape of genetic material.

The group organised a «mass action» by campaigners to march on the trial site in Harpenden, Herts., on 27th May with the intention of destroying the GM wheat crops.

A new strain of a devastating fungus could impact wheat crops the world over — and scientists are scrambling to nip it in the bud

Three epidemics of stem rust from 1939 - 1941 destroyed wheat crops in the Yaqui Valley of Mexico.

«Another blow to fungal infection: For the first time, researchers have isolated a natural resistance gene to Septoria, Europe's most economically damaging wheat disease and a fungal threat to wheat crops globally.»

A new photosynthesis discovery at The University of Queensland may help breed faster - growing wheat crops that are better adapted to hotter, drier climates.

In a unique study set - up, the scientists first compared simulation results from a large ensemble of wheat crop growth models with experimental data, including artificial heating experiments and multi-locational field trials.

A scourge of wheat since biblical times, stem rust caused major losses to North American wheat crops in the early 20th century.

-- Research shows that wheat crops benefit from a preceding legume pulse crop through the addition of soil organic matter leading to conservation of soil moisture and the addition of nitrogen (Miller et al 2002; Miller et al 2003; Cutforth et al 2007).

Pulse crop rotations can aid production of subsequent wheat crops.

Most of today's conventional wheat crops are also treated with insecticides, particularly glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup.

According to Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT who has studied the issue in depth and who I recently saw present on the subject at a nutritional Conference in Indianapolis, desiccating non-organic wheat crops with glyphosate just before harvest came into vogue late in the 1990's with the result that most of the non-organic wheat in the United States is now contaminated with it.

Dwarf wheat and semi-dwarf wheat crops have replaced their taller cousins, and these wheat strains require less time and less fertilizer to produce a robust crop of wheat berries.

An international consortium of scientists have been testing wheat crops in laboratory and field trials in many areas of the world in changing [continue reading...]