Sentences with phrase «wheat harvest»

Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place.

[Y] ou shall observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering.

Feeling the heat: the yield from wheat harvests in India is falling Image: Yann via Wikimedia Commons

Alternatively, it might be a result of patterns of winter wheat harvest, which moves from south to north and has been a major vector of seed dispersal through passive transport on harvest equipment (Petit et al. 2013).

Why did the Russian wheat harvest suffer so?

At the time, I had just wrapped up spending 18 days straight working wheat harvest which entailed driving a combine for 12 hours a day across soil that was essentially devoid of life — save that wheat.

For perspective, this compares with Australia's annual wheat harvest of 24 million tons.

James Taylor writes an article in Forbes titled «Wheat Production Sets New Records Thanks To Global Warming,» where he claims that Reuters and other sources including Grist and the Guardian have published «false claims about global warming reducing wheat harvests.»

SPRING rains brought a bumper wheat harvest to Afghan farmers this year, and the opium poppies were safely brought in because US president Barack Obama withdrew troops he had sent to destroy drug crops.

A decent wheat harvest requires robust wheat.

Europe is heading toward a large wheat harvest this year but concerns are mounting that much of it could only be fit to feed animals after heavy rain earlier this month.

Reduced Arctic sea ice and unusually warm ocean temperatures earlier in the summer — conditions thought to be related to the long - term warming of the climate from building greenhouse gases — did not appear related to the disaster, which severely blunted wheat harvests and was blamed for more than 50,000 premature deaths, according to the researchers.

Record coffee crops, record rice crops, record general grain crops and now record wheat harvest — all in «The Hottest Year Evah»!?

Researchers have repeatedly warned that rising temperatures — and particularly greater frequencies and intensities of heat waves, droughts and floods — will threaten global food security: they will reduce fruit and vegetable yields, hit grain crop harvests and in particular affect wheat harvests in one of the most populous — and poorest — nations on the planet.

As to what I actually did write, there were two very uncomplicated claims 1) that the Russian summer wheat harvest was done in by heat and attendant drought, which illustrates the entirely uncontroversial fact that heat extremes are not good for agriculture, and 2) that warming on a global average basis anticipates an increased incidence and severity of extreme heat events, (and decreased incidence and severity of extreme cold events), of which this event was a quintessential example.

A native of Central Montana, Dirk spent his formative years on a custom wheat harvesting crew, travelling with the ripening grain from Texas to the Canadian border.

[May 8, 3:50 p.m. Updated Researchers report in the journal Science that rising temperatures have hurt corn and wheat harvests in some countries, but not others (including the United States).

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.

The latest kick in the pants to the Malthusian doomsayers is a bumper global wheat harvest.

(Scratch that, a review of the subtitles indicate that the festival marks the annual wheat harvest.

He also saw nearby farmers burning fields of chaff after the wheat harvest each year.

Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

Industry experts are predicting a wheat harvest of about 21 million tonnes, down from 34 million tonnes last year and compared to a 10 - year average of 25 million tonnes.

Wheat harvest is beginning.

Wheat harvests will suffer in the future, for example, from more frequent hot days, drought, late spring frost and harsh winters.

«We found in every loaf there is embodied global warming resulting from the fertiliser applied to farmers» fields to increase their wheat harvest.

A huge drought in Russia has devastated its wheat harvest.

And extreme climatic events will become more common, such as the wheat harvest failure in Russia in 2010 which affected UK food prices.

Kadohata has written a gentle family story that is unusual in its focus on the mechanics of wheat harvesting.

After our visit to the temple we leave the village center, where we meet friendlier people and see nice little houses with racks in their courtyards on which the wheat harvest is drying.

«And extreme climatic events will become more common, such as the wheat harvest failure in Russia in 2010 which affected UK food prices.

America's Midwestern breadbasket could expect fields frozen solid, disrupted transportation and a poor winter wheat harvest.

So, when record heat waves and drought hit Russia, crashing their wheat harvest and leading to an export ban, the global price response was rapid.

A huge drought in Russia has devastated its wheat harvest.

And while summer 2010 in Russia may have been highly anomalous in the temperature signal, it was not particularly anomalous in the wheat harvest signal.

The results, published today in Science Express, show that an area of corn (maize) equal to Mexico's annual output has been lost - and that France's wheat harvest would be entirely swallowed by the lowered wheat yields.

Its wheat harvest dropped from a high of 4.1 million tons in 1992 to 2.7 million tons in 2007, a drop of 34 percent.

«In response, officials said they would reduce their wheat harvest by one eighth each year until production would cease entirely in 2016.

Its wheat harvest dropped from a high of 4 million tons in 1992 to some 2 million tons in 2005.

According to Taylor, «This newest round of global warming alarmism — with global warming activists and their willfully ignorant media allies attempting to dupe people into believing global warming is causing a decline in wheat harvests — is a perfect illustration of all that is wrong with the alarmist global warming movement.»