Sentences with phrase «yield losses»

Feeding our dog much less still would not yield a loss in weight plus he was going crazy.

This advice comes at a time when farmers across the country are complaining of huge yield losses as a result of poor rainfall patterns this year.

Short - term returns on paid book advertisements often yield losses of 40 % or more.

However, only a few of the more infected fields had low to moderate yield losses.

Another factor affecting yield loss was legumes grown in soil with medium texture also exhibited greater yield reduction compared to those planted in soil of either coarse or fine texture.

The team looked at the yields from both and took the difference to calculate how much yield loss happened.

Alien species are one of the main threats to biodiversity and native species as well as causing immense economic damage, e.g. via yield losses in agriculture.

The practice was widely adopted and decreased the incidence of blast from 55 % to 5 %, while yield losses dropped from 28 % to nothing.

Once infected, these plants absorb less water and nutrients, resulting in yield losses of up to 75 percent.

In the future, the knowledge about beneficial fungi could also help to develop sustainable solutions for agriculture, the scientist says: «Inoculants based on these beneficial microbes help to «immunize» the plants against pathogens and pests, thereby reducing yield losses due to infections, in a sustainable way.»

Charcoal rot is a relatively unknown disease causing yield losses in crops across South Africa, including maize.

Vaccination has massively reduced yield losses due to MD, despite the evolution [49].

Blast caused great yield loss on traditional glutinous rice varieties and farmers were spraying fungicides for up to seven times.

«And in soybeans, almost the same — 49.5 percent total yield loss on average.

Although direct seeding is widely practiced in the United States and South America, challenges such as higher yield losses due to weed infestation have limited its wide - scale adoption in Asia.

«What we saw in corn is that we'd lose over half of our yield if we didn't manage those weeds — a 52 percent yield loss,» Dille said.

Jones, Nicolla's attorney in the bid - rigging case, said the monetary loss on the garage, plus the cost of imploding the hotel annex, yielded a loss for Columbia.

Moore and Lobell predict that corn farmers can reduce yield losses by as much as 87 percent through long - term adaptation.

According to a report by the USDA, powdery mildew can cause major yield losses if infection occurs early in the crop cycle and conditions remain favorable for development.

They don't compare the genetically modified pest - management results with non-chemical systems where organic corn tolerates higher weed populations without yield loss, and where insect damage becomes insignificant in most years once basic crop rotations are established and soil health improves.

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.

Midwestern corn growers know the symptoms of northern corn leaf blight all too well: greenish - gray lesions on the leaves that can add up to major yield losses if not detected and treated early.

Macassane, a new IRRI - bred rice variety released in Mozambique in 2011, also has improved resistance to baterial leaf blight, which causes yield losses across the country.

Our results indicate that climatic change will likely produce an average yield loss of 10 % for each degree Celsius of warming.»

The Tunnel of Fire can be applied before cooking to achieve maximum flame searing with minimum yield loss or after cooking for pasteurization.

The UK is recognised as the world leader in chilled food production with c # 10Bn annual sales yet inherent process problems mean manufacturers typically aim for 2 % yield losses yet often deliver between 5 % and 10 %.

Late - season weeds caused a 19 percent to 76 percent chile yield loss, depending on density, in a Schroeder field trial.

«We've found even if you keep the crop weed free until thinning it still isn't enough to prevent yield losses from broadleaf weeds that emerge after thinning,» Schroeder said.

TOMRA's Dry Peel Separator or DPS provides you with a method to separate peel waste with zero water usage and minimal yield loss.

None of the strategies tested offset the expected fall in wheat production, but the study identified directions for wheat breeding (canopy vigour and root characteristics) and management to minimise yield losses in a hotter and drier climate.

Types of genetically modified corn could offer modest protection for drought tolerance and might help individual farmers recoup yield losses in drought conditions

Minimizing yield losses while reducing groundwater usage is a continual goal for Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists on the High Plains, where quantities of water from the Ogallala Aquifer are diminishing.

Though soybean producers from neighboring states like Iowa have experienced yield losses due to sudden death syndrome for nearly a decade, the disease did not impact South Dakota producers until 2013, according to South Dakota State University field crops pathologist Febina Mathew.

There are no obvious plant symptoms even when yield losses are already occurring, Byamukama explained.

In an Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis research paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers provide information that could help agricultural planning and management to minimize drought - induced yield losses.

The study «Wheat yield loss attributable to heat waves, drought and water excess at the global, national and subnational scales» was published in Environmental Research Letters earlier this month.

«So, the idea,» she said, «was they did everything right to produce their best crop — their best seed, they fertilized it, they irrigated it — whatever they needed to do, but they just didn't control the weeds in the untreated plots, so we could see what kind of yield loss impact that would have.»

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

«Reports from growers facing yield losses due to oat crown rust occur during most cropping seasons and the genome assemblies of this pathogen will help us understand the evolution of this pathogen and means to develop more resistant crops,» said Kianian, who coordinates annual rust surveys in the US in order to monitor the pathogen population in oat growing areas.

Currently yield losses caused by bacterial blight are typically around 1 % or less, as resistant varieties have been deployed in the main rice - producing zones of Asia such as NSIC Rc142 and NSIC Rc154 in the Philippines.

In the Philippines, yield losses ranging from 50 - 85 % were reported.

Mid-season rainfall resulted in massive yield losses during winter 2014 - 15.

Elevated carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere may increase water - use efficiency in crops and considerably mitigate yield losses due to climate change, according to a new NASA study.

Tardive frosts, i.e. frost events occurring after grapevine budburst, are a significant risk for viticultural practices, which have recently caused substantial yield losses over different winegrowing regions of France, e.g. in 2016 and 2017.

The costs of soil compaction are borne by the cumulative loss of soil functionality (e.g. yield loss) following a compaction event until the soil has functionally recovered.