Sentences with phrase «wheat crops at»

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.

Not exact matches

At Kent Erickson's farm near Irma, Alta., (two hours southeast of Edmonton), about an inch of rain has been steadily falling every day in recent weeks, which has been helpful to his wheat crops.

According to the federal forecast, national pasture and rangeland conditions are at record lows, and 39 % of the U.S. winter wheat crop was rated poor or very poor, up from 25 % last year.

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 prices.

Cattle prices hit record highs 18 months ago and have remained steady since, wool prices are at record highs, wheat crops have bounced back and cotton has some very favourable forecasts.

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

* 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...

Studies show that rice, wheat and other staple crops could lose protein and minerals, putting more people at risk of hunger worldwide.

Professor Douglas Baird and his team discovered the presence of carbonised seeds and phytoliths of wheat chaff at Boncuklu, along with agricultural weeds commonly found in early farming sites, suggesting the cultivation of crops did take place.

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.

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.

When the weather - based model developed at Rothamsted Research was used to predict how climate change may affect the wheat crops, it was predicted that wheat flowering dates will generally be earlier and the incidence of the ear blight disease on the wheat crops will substantially increase.

Professor Fitt continued: «We know that the weather plays a big part in the development of the disease on the wheat crops — the incidence of the disease is determined by temperature and the occurrence of wet weather at the flowering or anthesis of the wheat crops.»

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 two DSSAT crop modules were evaluated using measured data on soil water and crop yield from four treatments: irrigated cotton without a cover crop, irrigated cotton with winter wheat as a cover crop, dryland cotton without a cover crop, and dryland cotton with a winter wheat cover crop at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Chillicothe from 2011 to 2015.

In the UK, Mike Adams, project leader at the Plant Pathology Department at the Institute of Arable Crops Research, set up a successful collaboration the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Hangzhou, China, to fight mosaic viruses in wheat.

Using computer - generated test crops of dwarf wheat and soybeans, a team led by Federico Maggi at the University of Sydney in Australia simulated how these plants take up nutrients from human...

«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.

Cynthia Rosenzweig, a researcher based at Goddard, has been using crop - growth computer models to predict effects of carbon dioxide buildup and climate change on wheat, the most widely cultivated crop in the world.

Mitch Tuinstra, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Purdue, likened Schulz's work with corn to what Norman Borlaug did for the development of high - yield wheat crops in the 1960s and 1970s.

Increasing demand for corn, wheat, soybeans, sugar, vegetable oil and cassava competes for limited acres of farmland, at least until farmers have had time to plow up more forest and grassland, which means that tightness in one crop market translates to tightness in others.

Each year, fungal infections destroy at least 125 million tons of the world's five most important crops - rice, wheat, maize, soybeans and potatoes - a quantity that could feed 600 million people.

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

To find out if how the nitrogen is delivered makes a difference, Arnold Bloom, a crop physiologist at the University of California, Davis, and his team monitored the growth of wheat plants raised in high levels of carbon dioxide.

«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.&rcrops: Crops such as wheat could be up to 21 percent more efficient at turning the sun's energy into food.&rCrops such as wheat could be up to 21 percent more efficient at turning the sun's energy into food.»

Researchers at private agricultural firms tend to focus on creating better varieties of widely - grown, high - value crops, such as wheat and corn.

The attack damaged fences and some of the «buffer zone» crops surrounding the experimental wheat, but damaged «less than 0.1 %» of the test crop, says Darren Hughes, head of communications at Rothamsted.

The principle crops in the region uncovered include cereals such as corn, rice, and spring wheat in a region known to be the main grain area of China (26)[Fig. 1, with brown dots in denoting at least 50 % total coverage by crops according to the land cover type yearly climate modeling grid (CMG) datasets with 0.05 ° resolution from the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).].

As part of varied approaches at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate chaWheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate chawheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate chawheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate chawheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate changes.

Wheat and maize are the most important crops for food security; they are also at the center of Ethiopia's increasingly vibrant agricultural output markets and have been the focus in recent years of public investment to raise national production.

In one 2014 study, his group looked at six major food crops: wheat, rice, field peas, soybeans, maize (corn) and sorghum.

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.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Researchers around the world at sites like the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico are studying how to improve crops and farming techniques to address worldwide hunger.

If you fail to rotate crops, reinvest in your land - base, or let field lie fallow, you're looking at 2 - 3 years of wheat, barley, rye or corn, at best, before the soil dies and forces you to «go off in search of greener pastures».

This topic looks at how wheat is grown in the UK through the year and the different factors, such as weather, and the decisions made by the farmer can have an impact on the success of the harvested crop.

Should two or more wheat futures contract months within the first five listed non-spot contracts (or the remaining contract month in a crop year) close at limit bid or limit offer, the daily price limits for all contract months shall increase to $ 0.90 per bushel the next business day.

Should two or more wheat futures contract months within the first five listed non-spot contracts (or the remaining contract month in a crop year) close at limit bid or limit offer while price limits are $ 0.90 per bushel, daily price limits for all contract months shall increase to $ 1.35 per bushel the next business day.

The heat would also cause staple crops to suffer dramatic yield losses across the globe (it is possible that Indian wheat and U.S. corn could plummet by as much as 60 percent), this at a time when demand will be surging due to population growth and a growing demand for meat.

Other major climate impacts at 2 degrees Celsisus include severe threats to coral reefs across the globe, a greater risk of long lasting heat waves and extreme rainfall events, and the risk of lower yields for key crops like wheat in the globe's tropical regions.

Using a crop model they compared how well spring wheat in China and groundnuts in West Africa would grow under these scenarios when compared to a third «control» scenario that holds atmospheric carbon dioxide at 440ppm.

Recently, Lee Hickey and Adnan Riaz, crop geneticists at the University of Queensland, discovered unique drought - tolerant and disease - resistant traits in 300 old varieties of wheat seeds stored at the institute.

The experiment was conducted in controlled - environment glasshouses at the Queensland Crop Development Facility in Queensland, Australia, where eleven lines of wheat were grown under four day / night temperature treatments (15/15 °C, 20/15 °, 25/15 ° and 28/15 °C for 14 - hour days and 10 - hour nights).

The images were taken at weekly intervals, from 2002 to 2007, of the wheat - growing seasons to measure the «vegetation greenness» − an indicator of crop yield.

The researchers, Dr John Duncan, Dr Jadu Dash and Professor Pete Atkinson, all geographers at the University of Southampton, say an intensification is predicted for the recent increases in warmth in India's main wheat belt that are damaging crop yields.

If the wheat crop fails year after year in Canada or Russia, farmers will plant less wheat... or none at all.

Despite the fact that that Northwest is home to less than 10 percent of U.S. wheat farms, wheat is one of the leading commodity crops in both Oregon and Washington, valued at upwards of $ 700 million in 2005.

say it has been predicted that «the average temperature in the semiarid northwest portion of China in 2050 will be 2.2 °C higher than it was in 2002,» and they report that based on the observed results of their study, this increase in temperature «will lead to a significant change in the growth stages and water use of winter wheat,» such that «crop yields at both high and low altitudes will likely increase,» by 2.6 % at low altitudes and 6.0 % at high altitudes... Even without the benefits of the aerial fertilization effect and the anti-transpiration effect of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content, the increase in temperature that is predicted by climate models for the year 2050, if it ever comes to pass, will likely lead to increases in winter wheat production in the northwestern part of China, not the decreases that climate alarmists routinely predict.»

Cheap, low - maintenance farming can be adopted elsewhere, Oglio thinks, and, while it may not produce thousands of acres upon acres of staple crops like rice, wheat, and corn (at least in the same place), it can help feed the world's poor without reliance on and oversight by corporations.