They should spread risk. This could be a marketing risk or the risk of crop failure or another type of risk. 5 They should spread the labour and machinery workload throughout the year. 6 They should take the pressure off the storage, cleaning, drying and handling system used on the farm...
7/8/2016 - With such widespread use of pesticides on crops throughout the world, and the insistence of Big Agri and some farmers that its products are necessary for successful crop cultivation, one might start to wonder exactly how people managed to grow enough food to survive before this re...
Pea is grown as a component of cropping systems throughout the world. • Cereals andoilseedsgrown after pea often yield more than when grown after other crops. • The optimum sowing time for pea is determined bysoil temperaturein parts of Europe and North America and by rainfall patterns ...
(61.9% of occurrences having pre-assigned landrace group assignments and the rest inferred) and 50 environmental and socioeconomic predictor variables, landraces as a whole were predicted to be distributed on all inhabited continents, including throughout most of the world’s tropical and subtropical ...
Trapview is using the power of AI to help deal with the problem. The Slovenian company has developed a device that traps and identifies pests, and acts as an advance warning system by predicting how they will spread. ”We’ve built the biggest database of pictures of insects in the world...
I now believe that the old osage orange trees growing in lines throughout pastures, woodlands, and alongside old roads are a remnant of Andrew Jackson Downing’s passion for employing this tree as a hedge and getting loads of influential early adopters on board in order to make this tree ...
In the Eighties another subtle shift occurred. People became aware that America was no longer another place but a culture which had spread throughout the world. And the hamburger became globalized, too, in the form of McDonald’s. With its US home market, like the fat in...
It is a race against time, Smith said, because in the last decade alone, 20 plants held in the bank have already been wiped out in the wild. He estimates that between a third and a quarter will become extinct this century. "It is urgent and it is happening now. An area, the size...
While this research was conducted in New Zealand, the findings will have wider application to redesign agricultural landscapes in other temperate zones, as many of the taxa sampled here are widely planted throughout the world. Overall, this study describes a process by which low flammability ...
Oilseed cropshave been thebackboneof several agricultural economies from antiquity and play a prominent role in agricultural industries and trade throughout the world. A major amount of edible oil comes from these crop resources. The quantum increase in production through various methods of improvement...