Sentences with phrase «who plant the crop»

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Bel Soley agronomists — scientists who specialize in soil quality, land cultivation, and crop production — distribute nursery - grown «starter» pepper plants to 1/4 — 1/2 acre family owned farms.

The two farmers who decided to start growing teff, Fraser McNaul and his father, Shane McNaul, planted two varieties of the crop, brown and ivory teff.

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.

Think of a farmer who plough his or her land and plants crops without fertiliser and all the necessary inputs of production yet expects to harvest more than those who have met the necessary inputs of maximum production... wenger out!

Lane and his colleagues found that both farmers who have been involved in GM crop trials and those who have not, regard GM as a simple extension of previous plant breeding techniques, such as those which have produced today's established crop types.

I was lucky because I planted early and managed to harvest all the fruit by mid-March, but you can harvest until May and those who planted a little later, like my best friend, have lost nearly all their crop.

«It's just devastating to watch your crop wash after you've just planted it and it's coming out of the ground,» said Dan Annable, who operates a 500 - acre farm in Marietta.

What's more, the rest of the crop — the vast black - market portion — is planted on public or tribal lands by people who ignore the environmental consequences of their activity.

However, he said, the Farm Bureau does recognize that a cap - and - trade system can offer benefits to growers, who sequester carbon by planting crops and trees.

Bruce Rominger, who farms onions in Yolo County, California, has interlaced his crops with hedgerows of native plants, including buckwheat and willow.

Inmates who care for crops and plants in prison - yard gardens not only cultivate new skills and learn to work cooperatively — they also gain an increased awareness of and respect for nature

Now, geneticists have developed a potential boon for the health of African subsistence farmers who rely on the crop: transgenic plants with roots practically free of cyanide - forming chemicals.

But in 2012, the opposite was true: abundant rains meant that the farmers who planted in basins were flooded out, but other farmers had a bumper crop.

However, they show considerable genetic overlap with present - day domesticated lines from the region,» explains Nils Stein, who directed the comparison of the ancient genome with modern genomes at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, with the support of Robbie Waugh and colleagues at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland, and Gary Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota, USA.

If expressed genes are identified in a fungus but not in another, they serve as markers that will allow to apply the appropriate treatment in these crops, says Dr. Elsa Gongora Castillo, plant biotechnologist who works at North Carolina State University.

Yesterday would have been the 94th birthday of Frits Went, a Dutch - born American botanist who discovered the role of the plant hormone auxin and paved the way for the development of weed killers, fertilizers, and genetically engineered crops.

«It will be exciting to look in other organisms, such as crop plants and pathogenic fungi, to find out what mRNAs this protein regulates,» said first author Amy Lee, a former UC Berkeley American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow who is now an assistant professor at Brandeis University.

Reisig found that approximately 40 percent of corn growers who used Bt corn would not plant refuge crops in the next growing season, while another 25 percent weren't sure.

The standard training of biologists who undertake research and development of agricultural crops involves comprehensive grounding on how plants work in both greenhouse and field situations.

The most recent breakthrough was made by a team of British and American biologists who report they've successfully infused tobacco plants with bacterial genes — a first step towards engineering crops that grow faster, offer higher yields and use less fertilizers.

Leading the charge of GR2.0 and 3.0 will be a crop of vibrant and intelligent young scientists in league with IRRI through the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and spread out across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, «many of whom are attending their first International Rice Congress now,» said Zeigler, himself a plant pathologist who started young working on various crop staples.

There is a fable retold in the excellent manifestation book A Wish Can Change Your Life about a farmer who is constantly tending his crop — always re-tilling the soil and digging up the seeds he's planted before they have time to take root because he is anxious for the harvest.

According to folklore, beans were considered one of the «three sisters» of traditional agricultural cropping methods used by Native Americans, who inter-cropped maize, squash, and beans to reap the most of each plant's benefits.

And who will plant the crops and plan the harvest?

She orders crops planted, and rejoices at the harvest, although gamblers arrive to cheat the slaves, and company stores recycle the wages right back into the pockets of those who pay them.

He plants crops, builds a shack, and maintains a non-committal détente with the soldiers from both countries who patrol the river, careful to protect his granddaughter from the lustful gaze of men with machine guns and his crops from the inevitable storms of the changing seasons.

She handed out two passages, one about Eliza Scidmore, a writer and explorer whose idea it was to plant cherry blossom trees around the nation's capital, and another about George Washington Carver, an African - American botanist born into slavery who taught poor farmers how to grow alternative crops to cotton.

Thanks to Don's «planting» two years ago, who knows what future «crops» of Corvette donations may be harvested by the Museum in the coming years?

A farmer who plants a corn crop can not know what price it will bring when the crop is harvested.

with good people who care about the land that we farm, the soil in which we plant, the seed and crops we grow and harvest, and the livestock we raise to produce quality products for people and their pets.

He was flattened by a Thwomp during an experiment to flatten coins, and when Mario wanted help harvesting crops, Wario was left to pick Piranha Plants instead, who instead preferred to pick him.

Those who do will surely suffer, since GW is predicted to reduce world net food crop output in several ways: droughts, floods, heatwaves that kill plants; land loss from sea rise; no irrigation in glacier - fed rivers after glaciers melt in a few decades — putting 40 % of India & China at starvation risk; crop loss due to increased pests (weeds & bug); fish decline from several GW factors; there's probably more.

For folks who enjoyed my piece on gardens and carbon sequestration, Peter Bane offered this practical advice on enhancing carbon storage: engineer «soil climaxes», and lots of them — meaning we need to grow plants, be they cover crops, annual food crops, or perennials, trees and shrubs, and then we need to cut them back before they flower.

The farmer who buys the used - up tobacco fields couldn't afford to do the first clearing, but can afford to plant different crops sequentially to keep the soil depletion under control.

However, falling crop yields may also be impacted by temperature - dependent factors other than heat stress, says Prof Graeme Hammer, director of plant science at the University of Queensland, who was not involved in the research.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

«There is a great urgency to safeguard crop diversity,» says Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gene bacrop diversity,» says Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gene baCrop Diversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gene banks.

AFAIK currently known weeds don't respond to increased pCO2 as well as crop plants do, but who knows what «pre-adapted» wild populations might be waiting to invade fields all over when the pCO2 passes a certain point?

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A Horticulturist is a person who is involved in the science and research of plant cultivation through genetic engineering, plant breeding, crop production, cutting tubers and planting of seeds.

In 1753, Scots - Irish Presbyterians and German Lutherans, who originally settled in Pennsylvania, began arriving in Statesville to plant crops in the fertile soil where game and water were also plentiful.

She spends a month or two at a time and brings along as many as 20 volunteers, who, in addition to providing water and hygiene training, help plant crops, repair roofs, and build playgrounds.