Sentences with phrase «wheat crop for»

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.

Not exact matches

For starters, Canada should tap into one of the hottest research topics among agricultural scientists: transforming annual crops, such as wheat, soybeans and corn, into perennial ones.

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

For example, 45 years ago here in Saskatchewan, pulses such as lentils and peas were a small part of the province's farm economy.9 In the 1970s, however, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan began searching for a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low pricFor example, 45 years ago here in Saskatchewan, pulses such as lentils and peas were a small part of the province's farm economy.9 In the 1970s, however, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan began searching for a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low pricfor a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low prices.

In preparation for wheat harvest, growers are reminded to be prepared to take steps to help insure they achieve the best quality grain possible from their crop... read more

First, he announced plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, which caused some Mexico importers to look to South America for crops like wheat.

The most recent fall in wheat prices was driven by the favourable outlook for the US crop.

For example, when crops are in a drought, the protein in wheat will be higher and may function differently.

It's funny because you always hear about how bad GMO soy, corn and wheat are for us (which they are) but those crops are mainly grown to feed the animals.

Drought in the United States, a key market for Nufarm, has devastated crops and pushed up wheat prices.

Farro, the Italian name for emmer wheat, has been cropping up all over the place lately, so you've probably heard of it.

Watch out for: Most oats grown in the United States and Canada are rotated with wheat crops, making cross contamination a major concern for people with gluten intolerance.

Of the four major crops that feed the world (corn, soy, wheat, and rice) rice is the primary source of nutrition for three billion people.

Potential plant sources for prebiotic carbohydrates include cereals and legume crops like barley, wheat, chickpea and lentils; vegetables like chicory, Jerusalem artichoke, onion, garlic, okra, and leek; and fruits like dragon fruit, jack fruit, palm fruit, nectarine and mushroom.

While much of conventional farming is doing more harm than good to the climate, wheat may be an important crop for reduc...

We maintain our own certified planting seed, and personally contracted with «Seedsmen» who have not grown any wheat, rye or barley on their land for the last 2 years and who use their combines for only Gluten Free Oats, LLC or non gluten crops.

Hypothetically, if all the main cereal and sugar crops (wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, sugar cane, cassava and sugar beet), representing 42 % of global cropland, were to be converted to ethanol, this would correspond to only 57 % of total petrol use in 2003, and leave no cereals or sugar for human consumption (although the reduced sugar in the human diet would have health benefits).

On Tuesday, a United Nations agency warned that severe drought conditions are putting this year's wheat crop at risk in at least five Chinese provinces — five provinces that account for about two - thirds of the country's total wheat production.

The study authors looked at wheat — a crop that the Nature paper identified as one that badly lags in yield for organic producers.

Global crop yields were beginning to decline — especially for wheat — raising doubts as to whether production could keep up with population growth.

Of the four major crops that feed the world (corn, soy, wheat, and rice), rice is the primary source of nutrition for three billion people worldwide.

Sorghum - also called milo - is a much cheaper crop compared to recent market prices for wheat, soy and maize.

If the technologists succeed in designing new characteristics for food formulations, the hardier sorghum crop could become a cheaper source for alternative ingredients to wheat, already the case for the animal feed market.

A nice enthusiasm, that, but not a practical one for a town of only half a million people and a spotty economy (the wheat crop this summer has been cut sharply by drought).

* 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...

For instance, the insecticide lindane, once used to protect crops such as barley, wheat, and corn from pests, is no longer used by farms in Canada, and has been banned in over 50 countries around the world.

Dodd's work has applications in saving water for irrigation managers and could lead to a reduction in the water requirements of crops such as wheat and potatoes.

He also factored emissions from the fertilizer and farming machines used to grow and harvest the wheat, and whether the field had previously been used for other crops.

Planning meetings for the Global Seed Vault in Norway spawned the idea of looking at average summer temperatures, which climate models can project relatively reliably and which have a large impact on crop yields — between 2.5 and 16 percent less wheat, corn, soy or other crops are produced for every 1.8 — degree F (1 — degree C) rise.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

Farmers in Russia will change the time of wheat planting [for example], and may switch to a different crop if the hot summer of today becomes the norm of the future.»

IFPRI's fellows in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research system are developing, for example, drought - tolerant or heat - resistant varieties of staple crops such as wheat and rice.

The study proved winter wheat is a feasible cover crop for Rolling Plains cotton production, said Dr. Srinivasulu Ale, AgriLife Research geospatial hydrologist at Vernon.

Winter wheat is one of the major small - grain crops typically planted for grain or forage in the region, DeLaune said.

«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.

Evaluation of the CROPGRO - Cotton and CERES - Wheat modules within the cropping system model of the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer, or DSSAT, for the region was one of the objectives of the latest study.

But the commercial aviation industry burns nearly 240 million gallons (945 million liters) of Jet A daily and if oil prices were to approach the $ 150 - per - barrel mark reached last year, the demand for Camelina oil might end up driving farmers to grow less wheat — a staple food crop.

The paper, «Simulated Effects of Winter Wheat Cover Crops on Cotton Production Systems of the Texas Rolling Plains,» is part of the «Crop Modeling and Decision Support for Optimizing Use of Limited Water» collection by the Natural Resources and Environmental Systems Community of ASABE at http://bit.ly/2izRZBY.

The new and improved wheat assembly will help wheat breeders accelerate their crop improvement programmes and researchers to discover genes for key traits such as yield, nutrient use and bread making quality.

«Since winter wheat is widely grown as a forage crop or cash crop for grain, seed is readily available, making it a popular choice as a cover crop,» he said.

«Pea is an excellent rotation crop for wheat,» says Chen.

Clovis» likely nomination, reported by the farm magazine Agri - Pulse and ProPublica, raised caution among advocates for agricultural research, who say they worry the administration will pay less attention to the effects of climate change on wheat and other vital crops, among other issues.

«We can now use this information to find similar genes in different crops such as wheat and grapevine, to selectively breed for their enhanced salt tolerance.»

Gale and his colleagues were the first to develop restriction fragment length polymorphisms for analysing the genomes of cereal crops, and have built on that expertise to construct detailed genetic maps of barley, rye and pearl millet, as well as wheat.

«The large machines used to harvest row crops such as wheat, corn and soybeans provide a natural platform for improving efficiency,» said Richard Sowers, a professor of industrial and enterprise systems engineering and of mathematics at the University of Illinois.

For most crops — including cotton, coffee and wheat — have long, tortuous biological histories and as -LSB-...]

As the staple food for 35 % of the world's population, wheat is one of the most important crop species.

The latest findings offer new focus points into how these genes and others may be modified to fine - tune a wheat variety for a particular environment, which will result in less crop and food loss due to changing environment.

«A wheat line's adaptation to its local environment is probably one of the most important properties of the plant for wheat breeders because it directly influences crop production,» Akhunov said.

The caterpillars of snout moths are economically important worldwide as pests of planted crops for food or biofuel, of forest trees, and of stored products such as wheat and nuts.»