| The BSE crisis came on top of a poor crop production year in 2003 as most of western Canada baked under a summer-long heat wave. |
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| The Spanish spread the Taino name for the plant wherever they distributed the crop throughout the world. |
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| The sago palm, Metroxylon sagu, is an increasingly socio-economically important crop in South-East Asia. |
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| Growers can generally recoup by rotating mustard with a high-return crop like potato. |
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| Herbicides kill weedy plants, thus decreasing the competition for desired crop plants. |
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| Effective control of these weedy species is extremely difficult and infection often results in a significant reduction of crop yields. |
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| I had planted seven varieties of radicchio and the crop had germinated well. |
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| Different types of oranges have good years and bad years, L' Hoste says, adding that one banner crop is typically balanced by a sluggish one. |
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| We were, quite literally, reaping the rewards of ignoring the judicious practice of crop rotation. |
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| All these attributes make alfalfa a highly desirable crop for many farms and ranches. |
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| Certified-organic crop farmers, livestock producers, ranchers, and handlers all qualify. |
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| Barley is also an important cereal crop species ranking fourth in the world after rice, the wheats, and maize. |
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| Despite widespread rain last week, the Department of Agriculture's latest crop review predicts only an average year for WA's wheat belt. |
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| If adventitious rooting could be introduced into a crop like cotton, it could lead to new production efficiencies. |
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| The potential impact of the latter species on oilseed rape was recently reported in France, where this crop is heavily damaged by O. ramosa. |
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| Conservation should be for aesthetic pleasure, forward-planning, improved crop and food productivity. |
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| City now are an established Premiership side after years of yo-yoing and have a healthy crop of young players coming through the ranks. |
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| It says the crop residue holds soil in place and protects it against wind and rain. |
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| Charcoal rot is a fungal disease favored by hot, dry weather at this stage in crop development. |
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| But for farmers intending to grow soyabeans, it advisable to grow the crop on clay loam and sandy loam, which are the best soils for the plant. |
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| What is it about the new crop of reality TV programs that has so many viewers riveted? |
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| This should not be a factor, however, if manure is applied at agronomic rates to meet crop nutrient needs. |
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| Charles Francis studied agronomy and crop breeding, then lived in several countries and worked with farmers with diverse cropping systems. |
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| He was a teaching assistant for introductory agronomy and crop management courses while pursing his graduate degree. |
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| Today very little Renosterveld is left as most of it has been ploughed up for crop cultivation. |
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| Planting an alternate crop in the spring literally can starve to death the new rootworms. |
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| Many young people simply found cash crop agriculture on the Reserves more remunerative than wage labor on settler farms or in the mines. |
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| Where first year corn rootworm is not a problem, annual rotation of corn with an alternative crop will eliminate rootworm problems. |
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| Cotton was to have been the establishing crop of the Ord development, and it took root robustly. |
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| The inhabitants are dependent on crop farming which is difficult in the arid land. |
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| As usual a request would crop up for a song from Johnny Kelly and always there had to be a repeat. |
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| The land is good for growing trees and better for pastures than crop farming because of the land's roll. |
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| By rolling down the cover crop in spring instead of mowing it, the cover crop takes longer to decompose and becomes a weed-suppressing mulch. |
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| A market revolution occurred as a yeoman and cash crop agriculture and capitalist manufacturing replaced artisan economy. |
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| Clover supplies nitrogen for crop growth and precedes arable crops in the rotation. |
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| Back in August, as the Evening Press reported, Andy had harvested his own crop of hops growing in the beer garden of the Monkgate pub. |
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| Dung and bedding, along with all other crop residues, are returned to the land to replenish soil nutrients. |
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| Organic weed control is not rocket science, but it does take understanding the anatomy and physiology of the crop plants, the weeds and the soil. |
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| The Farm Bill does relink conservation requirements to the receipt of crop insurance premium subsidies. |
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| One day the system could evolve into a robotic device for continuous monitoring of crop canopies in a production setting. |
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| Greenhouse nitrous oxide release, which results from fertiliser and pulse crop nitrification, remains the subject of ongoing research. |
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| To assist, Almond has a new blond crop that takes years off him, and a nervous, twitchy dance that matches the music's speedy urgency. |
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| It worked, but only up to a point, for this year's bumper crop has been almost entirely eaten by a family of robins. |
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| A severe drought killed the first four hundred yams that he had planted from his own stores of a small crop the previous year. |
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| Fertilizer, herbicide, aphicide, and fungicide applications were standard for a ware crop in southeast Scotland. |
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| The rural landscape hardly seems farmed, but that's just an American eye, expecting arrow-straight crop lines and right-angled fields. |
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| Later they tried organic truck crop production on the Frey farm, but this was difficult, being so far from urban areas. |
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| The other case was the woman who was acquitted in court for using a riding crop on her son. |
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| Skinner kept canes and a riding crop in his locker, which he used on his victims. |
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| The nutrients in lagoon effluent are then removed from the field at crop harvest. |
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| The water towers not only provide water but also allow for crop irrigation. |
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| Maple tree growers tap into this stream for a crop of maple sap which is boiled off to procure a sweet syrup sought around the world. |
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| He then ploughs down the clover and other crop residues, reincorporating them back into the soil. |
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| A good ripe crop from the Gisborne vintage this year produced some aromatic fruit flavours, with hints of Turkish Delight and lychee fruit. |
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| A specialty crop of the Dutch, alliums are grown by nearly 50 flower bulb growers in Holland. |
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| But during the early years of the 20th century, root rot and mosaic virus nearly destroyed the crop and the industry it supported. |
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| Green manure crops and crop rotations involving legumes also provide farmers with an additional source of plant nutrients. |
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| There is essentially a linear relationship between the total dry matter produced by a crop and the radiation intercepted by it. |
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| I had a go at growing lablab as a green manure crop for my bananas, but they basically hardly grow here at all due to our lack of summer heat. |
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| Other crop plants like peppers, cowpeas, clovers, legumes, and many others will be studied in the future. |
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| At least we have crop insurance which is good protection against decisions that turn out bad. |
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| A team of Ministry of Agriculture today visited 10 villages to take stock of the draught-like situation and assess crop loss caused due to it. |
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| Our current crop of literary wunderkinds will be little noted nor long remembered. |
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| For 20 long days these workers will pick the saffron crocus from early morning until the entire crop of regal purple is gone. |
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| The project will reforest old crop fields and pastures and an abandoned rock quarry that has degraded over the years. |
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| The famous crop of the dry and dusty Tundzha Valley makes Bulgaria the world's largest exporter of attar of roses. |
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| I can state for a fact that my neighbour will come out of hibernation to plant his annual crop of potatoes on Good Friday. |
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| Cotton is a crop that requires continuous monitoring for its nutrient requirement. |
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| Propagate strawberry plants once the crop is finished by pegging down a couple of runners from your best plants. |
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| The current crop of UK writers are turning out some amazing left-field material like The Office, Little Britain and Four Non-Blondes. |
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| Perhaps one-third of the land under crop was taken up by oats grown to feed a farm's own working horses. |
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| Growing crops was a very hit and miss affair and a successful crop was due to a lot of hard work but also the result of some luck. |
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| Organic techniques have been developed from an understanding of and research into soil science, crop breeding, animal husbandry and ecology. |
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| This corresponds to the optimal distribution of leaf nitrogen that maximizes carbon assimilation and crop productivity. |
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| Reservoirs are running dry, unable to meet demands for drinking water and crop irrigation. |
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| This year, more than ever before, France's crop of presidential aspirants offers something for just about everybody. |
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| Courses that emphasized crop production, pest management, and courses that emphasized experiential learning were frequently listed. |
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| The cherry crop was immense, and despite the abundance of this fruit the prices ruled high. |
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| Today's digital cameras come with the software you need to crop and resize the image. |
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| With an excellent long-range weather forecast the majority of the crop will be in the ground within the next week. |
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| You can quickly and easily crop your picture, correct brightness and contrast levels, even get rid of red-eye. |
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| These plants belong to the arum lily family, as does the better-known tropical root crop taro. |
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| The cover crop was rolled with a rolling stalk chopper when it reached the soft dough stage. |
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| In this situation, we plant the hay seed into a nurse crop of winter wheat or spring oats. |
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| We stood at their side, silent, until they excused themselves, to greet the next crop of arrivals. |
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| Compounded by frost damage in following years, some farmers had resigned themselves to not planting a crop because of the bleak conditions. |
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| Good crop residue distribution is even more important in cutting lodged wheat. |
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| As many as two-thirds of the shoots produced in a winter wheat crop may fail to survive to form ears and yield grain. |
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| Instead, the stubble of last year's spring barley crop sticks forlornly out of the waterlogged ground where the winter wheat should have been. |
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| The order in which crops are grown has to be chosen carefully, considering such factors as the amount of residue a crop leaves, and root depth. |
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| Forage soybeans also can be used as a one-year forage crop in rotation with corn. |
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| After being in pasture, the land goes through a 4-year crop rotation including one year in beans. |
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| The use of summer fallow, crop rotation, and improved tillage were even less common than in Ontario. |
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| Disease-resistant varieties, crop rotation, and tillage are especially important in management of wheat diseases. |
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| In the end, the open-field system of crop rotation was an obstacle to increased agricultural productivity. |
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| The greatest risk is in fields where a winter cereal cover crop has been used. |
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| Therefore, short, cool growing seasons and cold winters are often thought of as barriers to crop growth and diversification in the Subarctic. |
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| His initial efforts were devoted to improving the condition of his fields and implementing a system of crop rotation which would build them up. |
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| Each crop type must then be planted on a day when the moon is in a sign of the zodiac associated with that element. |
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| Butterflies feasted on purple asters, and dragonflies zigzagged over the buttonbushes, which bore a crop of round, dry fruits. |
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| The cotton-flax crop rotation provides producers an alternative crop for traditionally dormant fields. |
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| Like wind-blown apples, the first crop of Asian agencies coming to market are the weaker fruit. |
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| The new face of cannabis trade is that the richer villagers employ Nepali labourers to sow the cannabis crop in the pastures above the treeline. |
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| The last two quarters, when the kharif crop estimates come in, are more important for measuring expansion in the agriculture sector. |
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| This, along with a diverse crop and cover crop rotation, seems to discourage the buildup of their populations. |
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| Northern European farmers also began to experiment with the three-field system of crop rotation. |
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| There has been a stunted growth of various kharif crops and in certain parts the crop has withered. |
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| Guys especially like to see women in low waist pants paired with crop tops. |
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| He uses cow manure, green manure and crop rotation to ensure nutrient-rich soil for his rapeseed crop. |
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| Double the length of each side of the field and you find that you can grow four times as much of the crop as before. |
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| With a week of sunny days, warm temperatures and scattered rains, Nebraska's corn crop is catching up. |
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| The idea of lush fertility is further emphasized by the density of the well-watered clover crop that fully occupies a quarter of the foreground. |
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| It is, however, well established that the land with a crop on it will hold more water than a bare field. |
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| Lactic acid acidifies crop contents, making them less conducive to bacterial growth. |
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| In fact, every crop in North America other than the blueberry, Jerusalem artichoke, sunflower and squash has its origins elsewhere. |
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| This is in part because of the great success that has already been achieved in crop production through agronomy and crop protection. |
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| Tennessee had the largest total acreage of farm land and crop land, and North Carolina had the least. |
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| They built their two-roomed stone or weatherboard cottages and with great hopes put in a wheat crop as soon as possible. |
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| But if you're a small farmer with one acre at one spot, you have no rabi crop at all every second year. |
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| The estimated crop water use is calculated based on local weather information collected at an automated weather station. |
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| Some believe that the crop designs are messages from alien spacecraft. |
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| I hope you enjoy this month's crop of great reading and inspiring writing. |
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| With the excellent nutritive value and palatability of lablab, this forage may be used as a direct browse crop or as hay for supplementation or as an attractant. |
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| A survey has been ordered by the Delhi Government to assess the damage to kharif crop and vegetables due to the drought-like situation in the Capital. |
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| In the UK intensive agriculture with the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides to boost crop production has squeezed wildlife out of many former strongholds. |
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| We have this year's crop of adzuki beans almost sold already. |
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| The rocks are massive, strongly jointed and crop out as conical hills or elliptical ridges that rise to 5-20 m above the surrounding dune fields or sabkha. |
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| No-tillage is preferable because retention of previous crop residue is valuable for conserving soil moisture on minesoils, which tend to be droughty. |
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| There has been mounting concern following evidence that oilseed rape grown as part of GM crop trials in Scotland may accidentally have entered the food chain. |
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| When the number of nodules is insufficient to supply adequate nitrogen, it will be necessary to supply some nitrogen to the crop in the form of urea or ammonium nitrate. |
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| Their names repeatedly crop up in the course of his rapid-fire patter. |
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| We'll wait on the beets until the next crop comes in with fresh tops. |
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| They marshaled their underlings in San Pedro Sula and set to recruiting a whole new crop of chairmen for their army. |
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| Although the new species is not a crop pest, some of its relatives are. |
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| Let's discount dog almanacs and tree almanacs and almanacs that predict the best day to harvest the crop so as not to upset the children of the corn. |
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| The stout tubers of the waterlily and the lotus are edible when properly prepared, and have been an important starch crop both in Asia and North America. |
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| If more nutrient is available than is required by the crop for maximal growth, the surplus is absorbed by the plant up to a certain limit and stored. |
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| The jack bean is a bushy, semi-erect annual legume originated in the New World and which is grown mainly as green manure and as cover crop in soil erosion control programs. |
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| This obviously attracted a better class of nautilus, and a bumper crop was viewed by the team the next day in a wonderful dive hanging over an abyssal drop-off. |
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| It is the one redeemable band from the crop of Eighties Synth duos. |
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| If SCN is detected in one of your fields, start rotating soybeans with a non-host crop such as corn, sorghum or small grains if it isn't already in a rotation. |
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| Purple loosestrife will grow vigorously and clog irrigation canals, ditches, stream banks and reservoirs, resulting in less water available for crop production and recreation. |
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| One of the lads began beating the horses on their quarters with a riding crop to get them into the water, despite the fact that both horses were terrified. |
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| Harmonie offers new styles in leg warmers, hip shorts, and crop tees. |
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| Here at home, Western Australia's grain handling group CBH believes the state is on target for a winter crop of 12 million tonnes, down two million on last season. |
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| He said that one of the important things to remember about agro-terrorism is that you don't see any immediate impact when a fungal pathogen is introduced in the crop cycle. |
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| The current '80s crop of cartoon favorites, sitcom has-beens, embarrassing pop relics, and fashion offenses takes what was essentially kitsch to begin with and parodies it. |
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| Kochian's lab is also working on finding ways to grow crops on marginal lands such as acid soils, where toxic levels of aluminum limit crop production. |
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| But if you choose to conduct your discourse in 140-word snaps, or soundbites, then you reap the crop of dumb that you sow. |
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| As the apples begin to ripen, orders go out that all the windfall apples and the main crop later on are to be reserved for the sole use of the pigs. |
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| When stalks and roots from an average corn crop are left to deteriorate in a no-till system, more than 1000 pounds of carbon per acre can be retained in the soil as humus. |
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| Some have managed to take an interest in their land and make it productive, but many have simply reaped the standing crop and then left the land derelict. |
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| Educating a farmer on the agronomic value of crop rotation and helping them find additional markets for more crops will usually ensure that they rotate wisely. |
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| It appears that factors of fall moisture, winter exposure, leaf diseases, and early summer heat are larger than crop rotation and or tillage method. |
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| With a good monsoon, the kharif crop was buoyant and rabi is also expected to do well, going by the meteorological department's forecast of a prolonged winter. |
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| And why do 45 per cent of agricultural funds go to the arable crop sector? |
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| Strawberry is an important crop of agronomical interest worldwide. |
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| Experienced farmers will blend science, agronomics, economics and field histories with that indefinable intuitive sense and then will decide which crop will do best this year. |
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| This course is for students of agronomy, biology, entomology, crop production, horticulture, plant pathology, weed science, and environmental studies. |
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| Of all the pesticides I used for crop spraying the ones that affected me most were the aphicides which contained demeton-s-methyl, and in particular Metasystox. |
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| Just before the late summer sunburst farmers were in desperate straits because so little of their arable crop had been harvested, and huge losses were expected. |
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| It seems that uni's a short interim period where you can grow your mullet long, propagate a fine crop of dreads, and hold generally left-wing opinions if that's your bag. |
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| Soya has become the cash crop for half of Argentina's arable land, more than 11m hectares, most situated on fragile pampas lands on the vast plains. |
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| Persistent wetness in Wisconsin and Michigan has slowed crop maturity. |
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| A considerable amount of hay and pasture land is being reseeded, he noted, suggesting flooding last summer and winter kill appear to have set the crop back. |
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| They grew up as crop and dairy farmers in Iowa, tending corn, soy, alfalfa, hay, oats and clover. |
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| Keith tucks his riding crop under his arm and hops up on Chief. |
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| No-till soils remain wetter longer in the spring and less precipitation is required to saturate them compared with plowed soil during the early stages of crop development. |
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| The wind-borne fungus attaches to the leaves of soybean plants and reproduces rapidly, preventing proper plant development and dramatically reduces crop yields if not treated. |
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| The earthen ground floor was reserved for crop storage and the occasional chicken or other small animal. |
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| Indeed, perhaps this current crop of silver spoon rappers would do well to look to a previous generation of Hollywood rappers. |
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| She is wearing a crop top, and Andrew has his arm wrapped around her waist. |
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| Previously unknown papyri crop up only to vanish into private collections and out of the sight of scholars forever. |
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| After assessing individual plants throughout the field, if you're questioning the viability of the crop and continued development, consider replanting as soon as possible. |
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| Images of the hotel crop up repeatedly in his paintings, sometimes plagued by bats or monsters. |
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| Items to be covered include options in crop sequences, wheat breeding directions, tramline farming, potential for durum wheats, lupins and various pests and their control. |
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| The most widely planted type of biotech crop is engineered to withstand application of an herbicide to kill nearby weeds. |
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| Even if most people don't care to eat black radish, cabbage maggots sure love it and without a row cover a marketable crop can be almost impossible to achieve. |
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| Speaking of the literature you love, the Bloomsbury writers crop up in your collection repeatedly. |
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| And now when they have been praying for dry weather so that they can harvest their kharif crop and take it to grain markets, heavy rains are wreaking havoc. |
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| It has since spread around the world and become a staple crop in many countries. |
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| Aprilly and rainy here, but it will improve the crop of weeds on the front lawn. |
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| Some programs use drought stress to cause budset and harden the crop in preparation for winter. |
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| After leaving the usual bumper crop of zucchini on the neighbor's doorstep, she crept away. |
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| Earth up a potato crop several times during the season to encourage more tubers to grow. |
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| On the earth underneath is grown a crop of finnochio, or asparagus, or berries. |
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| Even more important, the system allows for two harvests a year, reducing the risk that a single crop failure will lead to famine. |
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| A land of green fields for crop cultivation and cattle rearing limits the space available for the establishment of native wild species. |
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| This evidence suggests that figs were the first cultivated crop and mark the invention of the technology of farming. |
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| To suit different soil conditions and crop requirements, mouldboard has been designed in different shapes. |
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| The main function of this plough is to loosen and aerate the soils while leaving crop residue at the top of the soil. |
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| Chisel plows are becoming more popular as a primary tillage tool in row crop farming areas. |
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| It incorporates crop residues, solid manures, limestone and commercial fertilisers along with oxygen. |
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| Ploughing leaves very little crop residue on the surface, which otherwise could reduce both wind and water erosion. |
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| As of 2012 Tomatoes surpassed soy as the most profitable crop in Virginia in 2006, with peanuts and hay as other agricultural products. |
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| Currently Indonesia is the world's second largest producer of natural rubber, a crop that was introduced by the Dutch in the early 20th century. |
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| First, many crop landraces in Europe are being lost without our even knowing what is being lost. |
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| Tobacco was an important early crop during the colonial era, but was eventually overtaken by sugarcane production as the region's staple crop. |
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| The intensive nature of the crop meant that potatoes could be grown viably on a given field in only one of every five years. |
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| The crop season was at hand and the sugarcane fields, managerless, were open to the malice of those who bore the Tulsis grudges. |
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| From the current crop of young folk musicians probably the most prominent are Spiers and Boden from Oxfordshire and Chris Wood, born in Kent. |
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| But by the turn of the 18th century, African slaves were replacing indentured servants for cash crop labor, especially in southern regions. |
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| Following enclosure, crop yields increased while at the same time labour productivity increased enough to create a surplus of labour. |
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| Moreover, Indian landlords had a stake in the cash crop system and discouraged innovation. |
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| Grown in the strategic northeast region of Colombia, marijuana soon became the leading cash crop in Colombia. |
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| Holdings were so small that no crop other than potatoes would suffice to feed a family. |
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| The potato was also used extensively as a fodder crop for livestock immediately prior to the famine. |
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| In 1851, the Census of Ireland Commissioners recorded 24 failures of the potato crop going back to 1728, of varying severity. |
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| Only when the crop was lifted in October did the scale of destruction become apparent. |
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| Since the community burns livestock manure as fuel, rather than plowing the nutrients back into the land, the crop production is reduced. |
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| As cash crop producers, Chesapeake plantations were heavily dependent on trade with England. |
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| With a crop yield four times higher than oats, they became an integral part of crofting. |
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| As in Ireland, the potato crop failed in Scotland during the mid 19th century. |
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| Such food is favoured in early spring and summer, but may also be eaten in autumn and winter during beechnut and acorn crop failures. |
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| Hamlin oranges are the main cultivar planted, and from this crop the rest of the United States and to a lesser extent Europe gets orange juice. |
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| Reduced crop productivity usually results from erosion, and these effects are studied in the field of soil conservation. |
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| The strips can be in the form of soil ridges, crop strips, crops rows, or trees which act as wind breaks. |
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| Agriculturalists are concerned about too much monoculture, as it makes the economy at risk from insect or crop diseases affecting a major crop. |
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| Soybeans are a major crop in the eastern part of the state, and cultivation is common in the southeast part of the state. |
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| Interspecific crop diversity is, in part, responsible for offering variety in what we eat. |
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| If a crop fails in a monoculture, we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new. |
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| If a wheat crop is destroyed by a pest we may plant a hardier variety of wheat the next year, relying on intraspecific diversity. |
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| A cherry tree will take three to four years in the field to produce its first crop of fruit, and seven years to attain full maturity. |
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| However, the only species of Papaveraceae grown as a field crop on a large scale is Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy. |
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| Farming and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by roughly 60 percent. |
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| This crop was unknown in Europe at the time of the chapel's construction, and was not cultivated there until several hundred years later. |
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| In most countries, cut flowers are a local crop because of their perishable nature. |
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| Unfortunately this cash crop has come under pressure in recent years due to globalization, which means competition with cheap imports from Egypt. |
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| In agriculture, season extension is anything that allows a crop to be cultivated beyond its normal outdoor growing season. |
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| Cultural practices include crop rotation, culling, cover crops, intercropping, composting, avoidance, and resistance. |
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| Crop nutrient use may also be managed using cultural techniques such as crop rotation or a fallow period. |
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| Careful selection and breeding have had enormous effects on the characteristics of crop plants. |
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| These seeds allow the farmer to grow a crop that can be sprayed with herbicides to control weeds without harming the resistant crop. |
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| Elsewhere, irrigation is essential to improve crop yields on the desert margins. |
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| For peasants this meant economic disaster, since they paid taxes in silver while conducting local trade and crop sales in copper. |
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| Sweet sorghum as an ethanol plant may prove viable, too, since sorghum is a traditional local crop for domestic and feedstock use. |
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| Maize was also an important crop for these people, and was used for the production of chicha, important to Andean native people. |
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| The main crops include rice, millet, a crop called bosporum, other cereals, pulses and other food plants. |
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| There are two crop cycles per year, since rain falls in both summer and winter. |
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| Both were dedicated to the crop of sugar cane, and the settlers managed to maintain alliances with Native Americans. |
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| I remember when a call came through that a crop sprayer had had a plane prang down at Naracoorte, in the south-east of South Australia. |
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| Complex mulches, crop rotations and tillages are used in rotation on terraces with complex irrigation systems. |
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| There is evidence that New Guinea gardeners invented crop rotation well before western Europeans. |
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| Most citrus is grown in the north of the state, and much of the lime crop is exported, supporting a packing and shipping industry. |
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| Most of this crop is grown in an area known as Totonacapan in and around Papantla. |
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| Another cash crop was the Indigo plant, a plant source of blue dye, developed by Eliza Lucas. |
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| A cotton farmer and his children pose before taking their crop to a cotton gin, ca. |
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| By 1612, Rolfe's new strains of tobacco had been successfully cultivated and exported, establishing a first cash crop for export. |
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| Within a few years, the crop proved extremely lucrative in the European market. |
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| With a much narrower face, sheep crop plants very close to the ground and can overgraze a pasture much faster than cattle. |
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| Tobacco has been a major cash crop in Cuba and in other parts of the Caribbean since the 18th century. |
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| The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum. |
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| However, lack of genetic diversity, due to the very limited number of varieties initially introduced, left the crop vulnerable to disease. |
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| Commercial growers plant potatoes as a row crop using seed tubers, young plants or microtubers and may mound the entire row. |
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| Potato crop yields are determined by factors such as the crop breed, seed age and quality, crop management practices and the plant environment. |
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| Since its eggs can survive in the soil for several years, crop rotation is recommended. |
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| It was believed that beginning about 2500 BC, the crop spread through much of the Americas. |
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| Weeds compete with the crop for moisture and nutrients, making them undesirable. |
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| Because of the relationship between fuel and maize, prices paid for the crop now tend to track the price of oil. |
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| A sugarcane crop is sensitive to the climate, soil type, irrigation, fertilizers, insects, disease control, varieties, and the harvest period. |
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| Coating seeds with the bacteria is a newly developed technology that can enable every crop species to fix nitrogen for its own use. |
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| Furthermore, if biofuels are used for crop production and transport, the fossil energy input needed for each ethanol energy unit can be very low. |
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| Sugarcane crop is able to efficiently fix solar energy, yielding some 55 tonnes of dry matter per hectare of land annually. |
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| After harvest, the crop produces sugar juice and bagasse, the fibrous dry matter. |
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| Since cotton is somewhat salt and drought tolerant, this makes it an attractive crop for arid and semiarid regions. |
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| Cotton is a perennial crop in the tropics, and without defoliation or freezing, the plant will continue to grow. |
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| These pests can cause up to 80 percent crop loss, which is extremely detrimental to the production of subsistence farmers. |
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| The organophosphorus nematicide femaniphos, when used, did not affect crop growth and yield parameter variables measured at harvest. |
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| Due to a major crop failure, sweet potatoes were introduced to Fujian province of China in about 1594 from Luzon. |
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| Sweet potatoes were introduced as a food crop in Japan, and by 1735 were planted in Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune's private garden. |
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| In the tropics, the crop can be maintained in the ground and harvested as needed for market or home consumption. |
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| Atypically among crop plants, peanut pods develop underground rather than above ground. |
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| In West Africa, it substantially replaced a crop plant from the same family, the Bambara groundnut, whose seed pods also develop underground. |
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| Also, the yield of the peanut crop itself is increased in rotations, through reduced diseases, pests and weeds. |
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| Global pepper production may vary annually according to crop management, disease and weather. |
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| As the effects of the new crop increased, so did the shift in the ethnic composition of Barbados and surrounding islands. |
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| Cassava, a root crop somewhat similar to the potato, is an important food in tropical regions. |
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| One important change in farming methods was the move in crop rotation to turnips and clover in place of fallow. |
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| Domestication has vastly enhanced the reproductive output of crop plants, livestock, and pets far beyond that of their wild progenitors. |
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| Potassium is the third major plant and crop nutrient after nitrogen and phosphorus. |
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| The concave clearance, cylinder speed, fan velocity, sieve sizes, and feeding rate must be adjusted for crop conditions. |
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| Bayer produces various fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and some crop varieties. |
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| Ideally the crop is mowed when in full flower, and deposited in the silo on the day of its cutting. |
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| The loss of soil from farmland may be reflected in reduced crop production potential, lower surface water quality and damaged drainage networks. |
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| Traditional mountain societies rely on agriculture, with higher risk of crop failure than at lower elevations. |
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| Some crop farming also took place, most notably during the warm periods of the 13th century. |
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| Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. |
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| In 1733, low crop prices caused the introduction of adscription, an effort by the landlords to obtain cheap labor. |
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| The growers will root cellar whatever portion of the crop does not sell at harvest time. |
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| They would walk, on fair evenings, around the village, and discuss the theory of crop rotation, and the weather, and other such sensible matters. |
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| She looks uncannily like Mark, with a crop of soft dark curls. |
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| The new crop of reality shows brings us that much closer to the contestants, warts and all. |
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| An estimation of the wildberry crop surplus due to bees' pollination is very difficult. |
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| Threshing a previously windrowed swath or cutting and threshing the crop in one operation are the common methods of harvesting oilseed rape. |
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| In the orchard counting my crop of four Bartlett pears, I noticed that a convention of bagworms had convened on an upper limb. |
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| In 1997, Rob founded Agri-Trend Agrology with the goal of helping farmers make better decisions on crop input purchases. |
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| Stem rust, which spreads via windborne spores, can quickly turn a healthy crop into a decrepit mess of broken stems and shriveled grains. |
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| Akee apple fruit is one of the popular small-scale tropical fruits and important crop but not as important as orange and mango fruits. |
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| From live crop trials to machinery demonstrations, the event services the needs of the entire agri-value chain in Zambia and the region. |
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| Farmers of rainfed areas in upper parts were advised to cultivate maize crop due to rececnt rains. |
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