Sentences with phrase «yields of crops across»

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On the flip side, agriculture - linked funds were again some of the best - performing ETFs this past week, as the commodities markets continued to rally on deteriorating crop yield prospects due to the ongoing droughtlike weather across the U.S. grain belt.

Williams says a number of crops have been studied for yield stability, a cultivar's ability to produce consistent yields across inconsistent environments.

In 2014 field trials of the new High Oleic Hemp are being rolled out across Europe in order to establish agronomic performance and yield under a range of environmental conditions in advance of launching a commercial crop.

Known for its beauty and also as an important source of food, the sunflower is a global oil crop that shows promise for climate change adaptation because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of environmental conditions, including drought.

The combination of the 2006 - 2010 drought and widespread overuse of groundwater in previous decades meant crop yields plummeted across the country, the new study says.

Caolan Woods from Natural World Products said «We employ 40 people locally to help recycle Belfast's food and green waste into a high quality organic soil conditioner, used across a range of applications — from local farmers looking to improve crop yields to local Councils seeking to help our parks and greenways flourish.»

Based on measurements of ecosystem CO2 flux, radiation absorption by plants, crop yields and a model simulating the terrestrial biosphere, a multinational team of researchers has found that during July and August 2003, 500 million tonnes of carbon escaped from the forests and fields across Europe as a result of extreme heat and drought.

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.

As extreme heat spreads across the middle of the country by the end of the century, some states in the Southeast, lower Great Plains, and Midwest risk up to a 50 % to 70 % loss in average annual crop yields (corn, soy, cotton, and wheat), absent agricultural adaptation.

Averaged across all crops, organic yield averaged 80 % of conventional yield.

101, no. 27 (6 July 2004), pp. 9,971 — 75; National Academy of Sciences, «Warmer Evening Temperatures Lower Rice Yields,» press release (Washington, DC: 29 June 2004); U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), «Climate Change: Billions Across the Tropics Face Hunger and Starvation as Big Drop in Crop Yields Forecast,» press release (Nairobi: 8 November 2001); Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts, «Nonlinear Temperature Effects Indicate Severe Damages to U.S. Crop Yields Under Climate Change,» Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.

The method adopted involved estimating the change in yield of major crop staples under various scenarios using crop models at 112 representative sites distributed across the major agricultural regions of the world.

«If crop yields go down 10, 20, 30 percent, that would have had an enormous impact across the world in terms of food security,» he said.

Participants agreed to elaborate on the text by including language stating: «Projected impacts vary across crops and regions and adaptation scenarios, with about 10 % of projections for the period 2030 - 2049 showing yield gains of more than 10 %, and about 10 % of projections showing yield losses of more than 25 %, compared to the late 20th century.»

Screen and colleagues conclude: «A growing list of societally impactful phenomena across the Northern Hemisphere are being linked to diminished Arctic sea ice, arguably quite speculatively: from extreme pollution haze in China, to poor crop yields in the United States, to the unusual track of Hurricane Sandy, the second - costliest hurricane in U.S. history.

«To be honest, as far as temperatures, for as far out as we can see there's no relief,» said Brandon Smith, who is expecting temperatures all across Utah to surpass the state's all - time highs this summer.Besides for raising fears about lower crop yields and an unstable power supply, the record temperatures are making life harder for firefighters who are anticipating more of the types of wildfires most recently seen ravaging Southern California.