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Those warmer temperatures let farmers squeeze in a fall planting of one crop - usually winter wheat - that is dormant over the winter and then grows and can be harvested in late spring, just as farmers plant a second crop - typically soybeans. (pressherald.com)
The problem comes when cool weather delays the spring harvest of wheat, which in turn delays the planting of soybeans. (pressherald.com)
A study published in August by the University of Illinois and Ohio State University found that was certainly the case this year, as high wheat prices resulted in double-cropped land in southern Illinois bringing a projected $251 per acre return for wheat and soybeans, which is $81 higher than a stand-alone soybean crop. (chicagojournal.com)
U.S. farmers responding to a survey in the first two weeks of March indicated they plan to plant about 86 million acres of corn, down eight percent from last year and 74.8 million acres of soybeans, up 18 percent, according to USDA's Prospective Plantings report. (topcropmanager.com)
Analysts were expecting the report to show planting intentions of about 87.4 million acres of corn and 71.5 million acres of soybeans. (topcropmanager.com)
In a note to investors Zuanic also reaffirmed his view that farmers will reconsider these planting intentions because corn continues to be more profitable than soybeans. (topcropmanager.com)
USDA attributed the lower corn plantings forecast to favorable prices for other crops, high input costs for corn and crop rotation considerations as farmers who planted near record corn acres last year switch back to soybeans. (topcropmanager.com)
Some analysts have also noted the cool, wet spring in the Midwest could push acres to soybeans as corn is traditionally planted earlier than soybeans. (topcropmanager.com)
Bolivia had 1.5 million acres of biotech soybeans, 63 percent of the soybeans in the country, making it the tenth largest biotech country in acres grown and the ninth country in Latin American producing biotech crops. (globalfarmernetwork.org)
Dinger is working on planting soybeans, and is expecting around 60 percent of the normal yield. (sdnewswatch.org)
This practice can be used when planting a grain crop like corn or soybeans into a cover crop. (no-tillfarmer.com)
According to Farm and Dairy , rain and flooding have limited any field work, and as of May 26, 2019, only 58% of the nation's corn crop had been planted, and only 29% of U.S. soybeans were in the ground. (themostimportantnews.com)
But if your residue is low carbon, like peas, sunflowers or soybeans, the cover crop should have a higher percentage of high-carbon species. (farmprogress.com)
Wet weather continues to hamper farmers from getting their corn and soybeans out of the field and into the bin. (farm-equipment.com)
As of May 15, three-quarters of U.S. corn acres are in the ground and a little over one-third of soybeans, according to USDA's most recent Crop Progress report. (farm-equipment.com)
When she finished planting her corn and soybeans in May, Iowa farmer April Hemmes expected lower yields come harvest time . (marketplace.org)
Billy Maddox planted 100 acres of Roundup Ready soybeans this year. (technologyreview.com)
Because there are 84 million acres planted with soybeans in the U.S., the market share claimed by Arkansas's seed is tiny. (technologyreview.com)
No, farmers can't sell cover crops, but they do reap benefits from them, including increased yields of cash crops like corn and soybeans. (livescience.com)
Now, a new survey of commercial farmers has confirmed that cover crops increase yields in corn and soybeans, the most common crops in the U.S. Moreover, cover crops were especially effective under drought conditions. (livescience.com)
Farmers who responded reported average increases of 11.1 bushels of corn per acre and 4.9 bushels of soybeans per acre over prior harvests. (livescience.com)
Respondents from the drought-affected states reported even greater benefits in soybeans: an average increase of 5.7 bushels per acre, or 14.3 percent higher yields after cover crops. (livescience.com)

The past 2 weeks have seen U.S. corn and soybean growers set a hectic pace in getting their corn and soybean fields planted. (farm-equipment.com)
USDA is reporting that as of Nov. 5, 90% of the U.S. soybean crop had been harvested. (farm-equipment.com)
The harvesting of U.S. corn and soybean crops is behind schedule compared to last year's pace and the 5-year average, according to USDA's Crop Progress report for Oct. 15. (farm-equipment.com)
Though not a significant fall off compared to the previous week, the condition of the U.S. corn and soybean crops declined slightly. (farm-equipment.com)
As of May 1, nearly half of U.S. corn acres that are expected to be planted during 2016 are in the ground and soybean plantings is just getting started. (farm-equipment.com)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts record crop yields this year for the important corn and soybean crops, as well as other crops. (climatedepot.com)
The generic GMOs planted by Maddox were developed at the University of Arkansas by plant breeder Pengyin Chen, who spent several years mating plants in order to move the Roundup resistance gene, which originated in a bacterium, from Monsanto's seeds into a different type of soybean in development at the university. (technologyreview.com)
Arkansas plans to file such a patent on its new soybean, but says it won't stop farmers from saving seeds. (technologyreview.com)
The most recent USDA report says less than 1% of corn and soybean plants are in the ground, compared to 71% of corn and 23% of beans planted this time last year. (kare11.com)
According to the May 2 report , there was less than 1% of corn and soybean plants in the ground, compared to 71% of corn and 23% of beans that were planted this week of last year. (kare11.com)

Ryan Fitzbeauchamp of Evening Song Farm in Shrewsbury, VT will share their farm's experience integrating high residue no-till production into their farm's four acres of cropped land. (mofga.org)
This approach has helped Evening Song Farm reduce risk of erosion, grow more high-residue cover crops, improve soil structure, and effectively manage annual weeds. (mofga.org)
Future infographics will focus on cash-crop planting into high residue cover crops and other cover crop related topics throughout the year, he said. (hpj.com)
Hairpinning problems should be eliminated or greatly reduced, because of better cutting of the green cover crop residue than that of dying crop residue that has been sprayed with herbicide but is not yet crisp and dry. (no-tillfarmer.com)
Potentially less soil- or residue-borne disease because of reduced splash from previous crop residue and soil onto the young seedlings of the primary crop. (no-tillfarmer.com)
Microbes may absorb N from the soil to decompose the cover crop residue. (no-tillfarmer.com)
If the residue in the field is high carbon, you can add more low-carbon species to the cover-crop mix. (farmprogress.com)
Methyl parathion is no longer used on food crops commonly consumed by children, and the maximum amount of methyl parathion that can be present as a residue on specific crops is regulated (see What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human health? ). (cdc.gov)
Methyl parathion is no longer used on food crops commonly consumed by children, and the maximum amount of methyl parathion that can be present as a residue on specific crops is regulated (see Section 1.9). (cdc.gov)

Plant in the late summer or early fall (after harvest) in Canada and northern parts of the United States, and any time after the harvest in the southern United States. (almanac.com)
In most regions, it's best to plant right after you make your last harvest. (almanac.com)
A good season of timely rains, timely moisture, a good safe fall harvest - that all matters to total crop revenue," he said. (wpr.org)
Still, he cautions that there is a years-long learning curve as farmers learn how to accomplish the task of planting one crop just as they need to harvest another. (chicagojournal.com)
The cover crops will harvest more solar energy and increase total soil carbon important to increase water-holding capacity and nutrient pool of the soil. (no-tillfarmer.com)
I love to see the fruits of your labor, and you get to see it from the time you plant the seed to all the way to fruition to the harvest," said local farmer Jeremy Gay. (wjbf.com)
That'll keep the top bowls on that crop from opening up, and therefore you can't harvest the land off of them," said Georgia Cotton Commission Executive Director Taylor Sills. (wjbf.com)
Sills says having a good harvest is key for farmers, because it puts money in their pocket so they can do what they do. (wjbf.com)
For instance, cover crops are a natural fit after wheat harvest. (farmprogress.com)
The Sacramento Bee , for example, published an August 5 article titled, " This is what harvest of a 2020 record 2020 almond crop looks like . (climatedepot.com)
He harvested the first 40 acres, sold the seeds to Global Harvest and planted 100 acres the next year. (spokesman.com)
Each year, the acreage has grown and some of his neighbors now plant and harvest sunflowers, too. (spokesman.com)
They plant a variety of sunflower usually grown for oil, but there's no facility to press the seeds locally and Global Harvest can take all being grown in the area for bird food. (spokesman.com)
Lisa Urbat, Dennis' wife, said the sunflowers fit in with their dryland family farm ethic, where they have a wide variety of crops, stress local sales and cut out the middleman through their collaborative effort with Global Harvest. (spokesman.com)
Farmers consciously adapt to shifting conditions, both economic and environmental, in their pursuit of a bountiful harvest. (governing.com)
The intent of farming is the harvest, the gathering of mature crops from the field in order to sell them in the marketplace. (governing.com)
While tobacco is harmful for people who consume it or are exposed to tobacco smoke, it is also harmful for the people who plant, cultivate, harvest and process it. (who.int)
The crops so irrigated are mostly vegetables and small plots of maize meant for early harvest, just before the onset of the rains. (lu.se)
The diseases are not restricted to farmers in the sense of those who perform conventional farm chores: the heading applies also to those engaged in the individual activities named above, as in those only gathering harvest or in those only dusting crops. (bvsalud.org)

Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture instituted new policies to encourage American farmers to begin growing two crops on one piece of land, one after the other, a practice known as double-cropping. (pressherald.com)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has moved to change crop insurance rules to encourage farmers to grow two crops in a single year instead of one. (pressherald.com)
Even if the effort is only moderately successful, agriculture groups are hoping for new ways of meeting a growing global demand for food while generating more profit for farmers amid high fertilizer and fuel costs. (pressherald.com)
The Project Safeguarding Agriculture and Farmers Against Fall Armyworm (Project SAFFAL) reached out to Hubli, Dharwad, and Haveri districts of Karnataka, the largest maize growing state in India. (isaaa.org)
This spring, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is rolling out a series of infographics to help cover crop users with their decision-making. (hpj.com)
More Arkansas growers are using or considering use of cover crops as a sustainable practice to enhance their soil quality," said Trent Roberts, associate professor and soil scientist for the Division of Agriculture. (hpj.com)
A new three-year, $472,363 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative will support more field testing of water transport in corn plants. (sciencedaily.com)
Research has demonstrated that millions of years of ant agriculture has remodeled plant physiology. (sciencedaily.com)
Research, led by Dr Guillaume Chomicki from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, has demonstrated that millions of years of ant agriculture has remodelled plant physiology. (sciencedaily.com)
This supports the notion that millions of years of ant agriculture have remodelled plant physiology, shifting from ant-derived nutrients as by-products to active and targeted fertilization on hyper-absorptive sites. (sciencedaily.com)
And the Plant City area does appear to have it's share of citrus groves based on Google Earth imagery, but it is the strawberry farms that dominate the agriculture in the area, and it's definitely an important part of the Plant City economy. (geoprac.net)
Globally, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) forecasts the 2020/2021 crop season will set yet another record for crop production . (climatedepot.com)
That year the U.S. Department of Agriculture listed 15 sunflower farmers in all of Washington, with 11 growing the plants for oil and four for seed. (spokesman.com)
The United States Department of Agriculture crop report for Minnesota comes out each Monday. (kare11.com)
A key part of the Crop Trust's mission is support for collections of unique and valuable plant genetic resources for food and agriculture held in genebanks. (cimmyt.org)
The North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and the Conservation Technology Information Center conducted the survey of more than 759 commercial farmers from winter 2012 through spring 2013. (livescience.com)
When realizing that our current cultivars and cropping systems will face severe and unprecedented challenges in the decades to come due to climate change, it is equally imperative to make agriculture more climate resilient. (lu.se)
The infrastructure will measure the exchange of greenhouse gases between the atmosphere and agriculture in real time in two parallel cultivation systems: the newly domesticated Kernza (Intermediate wheatgrass) and conventional crop rotation in Skåne (including wheat, sugar beet, barley and rapeseed). (lu.se)
This has a negative effect on technology adoption, yields and output market participation, as farmers may not have the means to hire vehicles to ferry inputs in good time in order to carry out their agriculture operations in time. (lu.se)
We cannot cultivate crops the way we do today if we want to create truly sustainable agriculture. (lu.se)
Olsson thinks that farmers should welcome perennial crops as conventional agriculture uses a very large part of its gross revenue to buy external inputs, mainly seeds, pesticides, artificial fertiliser, machines and diesel. (lu.se)

This could be done for any farm, and a wide variety of crops," says Durai Sundaramoorthi, senior lecturer in management at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. (futurity.org)
NARO continues to use appropriate modern biosciences to address challenges, and add value, to a variety of crops and animals of strategic national importance in Uganda. (isaaa.org)

It's simple enough that a farmer could receive a recommendation containing the five best seed types to grow given the average yields, weather conditions, and soil composition of his or her region-ranked in order of simulated success rates. (futurity.org)
Farmers adopt them to increase yields and/or lower costs and government regulators in more countries accept them as safe as real world experiences confirm what scientists have reported for almost two decades. (globalfarmernetwork.org)
8/1/2016 - Genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) could soon go the way of the dodo bird, thanks to an emerging new crop management technology that capitalizes on natural plant and soil microbes, rather than harsh chemicals and foreign genes, to combat pests and boost crop yields. (naturalnews.com)
In fact, California crop production is so strong that farmers are complaining that high yields are depressing crop prices. (climatedepot.com)
In fact, crop yields are so strong that some farmers are making news hoping for adverse weather to occur. (climatedepot.com)
If not managed properly, cover crops can deprive cash crops of water or even reduce yields. (livescience.com)
But the results were solid: Farmers enjoyed better corn yields after cover crops in all but one of the states hardest hit by the drought. (livescience.com)
Many crop yields are predicted to decline because of the combined effects of changes in rainfall, severe weather events, and increasing competition from weeds and pests on crop plants. (cdc.gov)

Drive north on U.S. Highway 395 past Deer Park in mid- to late summer, and you'll see people posing in front of the fields Urbat and some of his neighbors grow as part of their crop rotation. (spokesman.com)
Using pesticides is also less labor intensive than the biological controls used by organic farmers such as crop rotation, companion planting, hedge rows between fields and not planting large amounts of unbroken acreage in any one crop or plant species. (ehow.com)
The growers reported yield information from fields comparable in conditions and rotation - except for the cover crops. (livescience.com)

On April 3, 2023, Crop Trust's Executive Director, Stefan Schmitz, and Director of Programs, Sarada Krishnan, visited the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) for the first time to examine CIMMYT's maize and wheat genebanks, with the goal of establishing a set of standards for genebanks around the world. (cimmyt.org)

New series of infographics aims to help producers better prepare for cover crop and cash crop management. (hpj.com)
Roberts said "cover crop termination and burndown is the first step in preparing for this season's cash crop, so the first tool we have is a helpful checklist of what to look for and what to avoid to help improve your chances of success. (hpj.com)
Try to stay away from including that species (or a similar species) in the cover-crop mix, so you don't bridge diseases and insects to the next cash crop. (farmprogress.com)
Sunflowers aren't Washington's biggest cash crop. (spokesman.com)
They get a new dryland cash crop that helps rebuild their soil by pulling nutrients deep in the soil closer to the surface. (spokesman.com)
But a cover-crop/cash-crop system is complex. (livescience.com)
Although cultivation of tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum L.) forms a smal part of the overal agricultural sector in Southeast Asia, the tobacco industry and its representatives overstate its importance and inflate its contributions to employment and economy, presenting tobacco as a lucrative cash crop and underplaying the enormous support needed to keep it viable. (who.int)

He said whether a farmer is profitable also depends on how much they produce, or their yield, per acre at the end of the growing season. (wpr.org)
Significant progress has been made in agricultural science in developing seed varieties with genetic traits desirable in different planting environments, and the yield performance of those seed varieties in many test fields are documented in large datasets," says Lingxiu Dong, professor of operations and manufacturing management and coauthor of the working paper . (futurity.org)
Future concerns raised by the policymakers on food security, availability and accessibility of nutritious food call for a timely, scalable, simple and generic method that can assist farmers in maintaining plant health and yield. (nature.com)
Crop yield can be increased either by increasing the area of farm land or by increasing the productivity on existing agricultural land (reducing the crop loss or other technological interventions). (nature.com)
Out of these two options, increasing the crop yield is preferable as it avoids greenhouse gas emissions and large-scale disruption of existing ecosystems 10 . (nature.com)
Many other non-GMO drought-tolerant varieties are already deployed to several million farmers with yield improvements reported to be about 20-30 percent compared to previous varieties. (civileats.com)
Other important crop traits, such as increased yield potential, are also genetically complex. (civileats.com)
The benefits from using pesticides, in terms of crop yield, outweigh the costs of using pesticides. (ehow.com)
Maintaining a robust set of plant varieties serves as a building block for developing favorable traits, like increased yield, increased disease resistance, and drought tolerance, among others. (cimmyt.org)
In percentage terms, the extra bushels represent an average 9.6-percent-greater yield in corn planted after the planting of cover crops compared with crops not preceded by cover crops. (livescience.com)
The 141 respondents from those states reported an average corn yield of 11.3 bushels per acre, which represented an 11 percent increase in crops grown after cover crops compared with those grown without them. (livescience.com)
One involves trying to find wild perennial relatives and crossing them with domesticated varieties to obtain a perennial crop with a high yield. (lu.se)
For example, their yield is still lower than that of conventional crops, although this could improve within around ten years, and there is a lack of knowledge about the properties of the new crop types for baking and other areas of application. (lu.se)

It is viewed as the most important trait to become available in the second decade of biotech crops because drought is "the single most important constraint to increased productivity for crops worldwide. (globalfarmernetwork.org)
CHONGQING, China - As the tinder-dry countryside along China's Yangtze river basin withers under a heatwave that has lasted more than two months, veteran farmer Chen Xiaohua recalled the last severe drought to hit his crops more than 60 years ago. (zawya.com)
As a result and combined with low rainfall, the lack of feed has sent farmer requests to Rural Aid, from drought hot-spots mainly in the New England, Hunter Valley and Northern Rivers, skyrocketing to $1 million, according to the charity's CEO John Warlters. (nvi.com.au)
Last month, the highly respected science journal Nature published a news article reporting that conventional breeding substantially out-performs genetic engineering for several very important traits-drought tolerance and the ability of crops to use nitrogen (e.g., from fertilizer or manure) more efficiently. (civileats.com)
Nature doesn't mention that conventional breeding has also been making important staple crops popular in the developing world-such as sorghum, millet, cassava, rice, and wheat-much more drought tolerant (PDF). (civileats.com)
And, the advantages for cash crops planted after cover crops were even greater in states hit hard by drought. (livescience.com)

While the actual cost to plant looks different for every farm, Mitchell said during his presentation that average costs are 10 to 20 percent higher this year than in 2022. (wpr.org)
As a result, some farmers who suffer crop or revenue losses will have to lean heavily on crop insurance and federal relief funding to make it through the 2022 planting season. (sdnewswatch.org)
The recent storms in the southeast and the excess moisture in the northeast have backed producers into a corner in regard to deciding when, or even if, to plant a summer 2022 crop. (sdnewswatch.org)

These plants have seeds that are easy to scatter, and they do the hard work of fixing nutrients in the soil and improving soil condition over the winter before spring planting. (almanac.com)
A cover crop is a ready-to-sow seeds of fast-growing plants-often legumes or grasses-planted in late summer or fall into empty or fallow garden beds. (almanac.com)
Genetically engineered (GE) seeds are often sold to farmers and the public on the grounds that they are the wave of the future, taking over where conventional plant breeding left off by improving productivity and sustainability. (civileats.com)
There are no available GE seeds for any of these crops. (civileats.com)
Now some of its early patents are starting to expire, leading to the first "generic GMOs"-off-patent seeds that cost half as much and which farmers are free to save and replant. (technologyreview.com)
From the acres he planted he was able to collect thousands of bags of seeds genetically engineered to resist glyphosate, the weed killer Monsanto markets as Roundup. (technologyreview.com)
We've gotten calls from all over the country, but how big a deal it's going to be we still don't know," says Donald Dombek, director of the University of Arkansas Crop Variety Improvement Program, which developed the seeds Maddox has been selling. (technologyreview.com)
Each bag weighs 50 pounds, holds about 140,000 seeds, and is enough to plant one acre. (technologyreview.com)
Farmers who want to plant off-patent GMO seeds will still need to check that they aren't encumbered by other restrictions. (technologyreview.com)
Even if the off-patent seeds were free, says Harry Stine, head of Iowa's Stine Seeds, farmers would still lose money by growing fewer beans. (technologyreview.com)
Farmers don't simply toss seeds into the dirt and wait for serendipity to arrive. (governing.com)
Farmers create fertile soil for seeds to take root and grow. (governing.com)
The Seed Vault, managed by the Crop Trust, is a repository collection holding duplicates of seeds from over 1,700 genebanks around the world. (cimmyt.org)
Additionally, all the Century Club crops' seeds will be available with Farm Coins and do not require Farm Cash to plant. (aol.com)
Farmers expected to pay for the ecosystem services provided by cover crops, and were willing to pay median costs of $25 an acre to purchase seeds and $15 an acre for cover-crop establishment (aerial distribution of seed and the eventual killing of the plants at the end of the growing season). (livescience.com)
Three kilos of seeds give the farmer one kilo of oil and two kilos of remaining solids, pomace. (lu.se)

In 2007, the Prospective Plantings report forecasted corn acreage at 90.5 million acres, but actual planted acres turned out to be 93.6 million. (topcropmanager.com)
Continued expansion in the worldwide acreage of biotech crops is the result of economic and political forces. (globalfarmernetwork.org)
The International Service for the Acquisition of Agro-biotech Applications (ISAAA) in its "Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2008" estimates that acreage planted to biotech crops increased 9 percent in 2008 to 308.8 million acres, 16.1 percent of the 1.92 billion acres of crops in the 25 countries that grow approved biotech crops. (globalfarmernetwork.org)
Even in the EU acreage of biotech crops continued to increase. (globalfarmernetwork.org)
Recent rains and flooding have forced many farmers in the eastern half of South Dakota to delay getting crops into the ground, and some are now well behind the typical planting schedule or have had to cut back the acreage they are able to plant. (sdnewswatch.org)

USDA said wheat farmers expect to plant about 63.8 million acres, up six percent and in line with analysts' expectations of about 63.6 million. (topcropmanager.com)
Urbat himself has planted about 900 acres this year. (spokesman.com)
The farmers responding to the survey grew cover crops on an estimated 218,000 acres in 36 states, mostly in the Mississippi River basin. (livescience.com)

DES MOINES, Iowa - There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia's invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S. farmers could do to meet the new demand. (pressherald.com)
By changing insurance rules to lessen the risk of growing two crops, the USDA hopes to significantly increase the amount of wheat that U.S. farmers could grow every year, lessening the reliance on big wheat producers like Ukraine and Russia and eliminating bottlenecks. (pressherald.com)
The double-crop benefit was less dramatic in other parts of the state and could be less if wheat prices drop. (chicagojournal.com)
The wheat stem sawfly had been damaging wheat crops in our area for years. (bigskyfarmher.com)
At the moment we're carting in barley from Boggabri, and hopefully, I am tee-ing up with some local farmers to buy their wheat. (nvi.com.au)
In conjunction with Bayer we will be keeping track of winter wheat crop development this season as emergence is likely to be variable following the challenging conditions. (farmersguardian.com)
In this case the rye or wheat cover crop provides carbon and biomass, sequesters nitrogen, uses excess moisture, competes with weeds and can cycle disease. (farmprogress.com)
Their maize and wheat genebanks serve a crucial role in assuring crop diversity, especially in Latin America. (cimmyt.org)
In particular, the cultivation of annual crops such as wheat, rice, soya beans and various oil-based plants is problematic, according to Lennart Olsson from the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. (lu.se)
At the same time, Kernza in particular can be cultivated in various types of climate as the crop is probably more hardy than wheat, for example. (lu.se)

Mac Slavo ) So far, 2019 has been a horrific year for farmers in the United States. (themostimportantnews.com)
The spokespersons attended an engagement organized by National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) through its information-sharing hub, the Uganda Biosciences Information Center (UBIC), at the National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI) at Namulonge on July 10, 2019. (isaaa.org)
In Kern County, total crop value rose 3 percent in 2019 , setting a new record. (climatedepot.com)

Fresno County's total crop value rose 12 percent in 2018 to briefly overtake Kern County as the nation's top-grossing county for agricultural production. (climatedepot.com)

Annual crops require the yearly clearing of vegetation resulting in soil erosion and other forms of ecosystem degradation. (lu.se)
We must be open to using other types of crops than annual crops and we must move away from the narrow use of monocultures", says Lennart Olsson from the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. (lu.se)
The annual crops contribute to soil erosion and loss of nutrients as the soil is turned upside down every time new crops are sown. (lu.se)

The inauguration of fall armyworm (FAW) awareness programs began with the treatment of FAW affected maize plant with Nomuraea Rileyi - a species of entomopathogenic fungus (ETF) found to be effective against the pest. (isaaa.org)
They either didn't plant crops at all, or they significantly reduced their cropping area, or they chose species of crops better able to cope with drier seasons, like barley," Mr Martin said of some agricultural farmers in the North West. (nvi.com.au)
In the farmed plant species, specialized ants exclusively defecate on hyper-absorptive warts on the walls inside the plant. (sciencedaily.com)
In closely-related non-farmed plant species living in the same Fijian rainforests, the ants do not show this farming behaviour. (sciencedaily.com)
Consider a cover crop with four to seven species, not 10 to 12. (farmprogress.com)
There are usually more benefits from planting a mix than a single species. (farmprogress.com)
Cover crops - which can be many species of grains, grasses and legumes - are usually planted in the interval between the harvesting and planting of cash crops. (livescience.com)
Farmers interested in cover crops need to decide which species to use, how and when to plant them, and whether to plant single or multispecies mixes. (livescience.com)
A field test of the relationship between habitat area and population size for five perennial plant species. (lu.se)

The technology could have many other applications, including sensors for biomedical diagnostics, for checking the structural integrity of buildings, for monitoring the environment and, with modifications, for testing crops for diseases or pesticides. (sciencedaily.com)
Why Do Farmers Use Pesticides on Their Crops? (ehow.com)
Pesticides help protect crops. (ehow.com)
Farmers often use pesticides on crops to kill unwanted pests, including insects and rodents, to prevent them from destroying crops. (ehow.com)
Farmers choose chemical pesticides to protect their crops because it is economical. (ehow.com)
While many farmers use synthetic chemical pesticides, organic farmers sometimes use naturally occurring chemical pesticides on crops to control pests. (ehow.com)
But using pesticides allows farmers to kill the pests without destroying their crops. (ehow.com)
Using pesticides can help a farmer profitably produce a crop in an area where he otherwise could not or to extend a growing season. (ehow.com)
Farmers use pesticides because they act fast, quickly knocking out pests before the pests can destroy much of the crop. (ehow.com)
In addition, many pesticides are broad spectrum so they protect crops against more than one pest, which saves time and money. (ehow.com)
Farmers are exposed to a number of health risks, including the "green tobacco sickness", which is caused by nicotine absorbed through the skin from the handling of wet tobacco leaves, exposure to heavy use of pesticides and exposure to tobacco dust. (who.int)
Fourth, farmers are expected to need to use more herbicides and pesticides because of increased growth of pests and weeds, as well as decreased effectiveness and duration of some chemicals. (cdc.gov)
The crops must also be sprayed with herbicides and pesticides to prevent damage from pests and plant diseases. (lu.se)
This has led to increasing problems with weeds, pests and plant diseases, in turn resulting in increased dependency on chemical herbicides and pesticides. (lu.se)
Diesel emissions from agricultural machinery drop drastically and farmers can use fewer pesticides and herbicides. (lu.se)

8/18/2016 - Before the pharmaceutical industry developed into the formidable force it is today, people around the world relied on plants and botanicals for medicine, and in fact many still do. (naturalnews.com)
2/3/2016 - Scientists are beginning to uncover the mechanisms by which plants -- which depend upon sunlight to provide them with energy -- protect themselves from the damaging effects of the sun's ultraviolet rays. (naturalnews.com)

Methyl parathion has been manufactured in the United States since 1952 and has been used to kill insects on many types of crops since this time. (cdc.gov)

Cereal (winter) Rye (Secale cereale) is a grain and excellent winter field cover crop because it rapidly produces a ground cover that holds soil in place against the forces of wind and water. (almanac.com)
Mitchell, who leads the Renk Agribusiness Institute, said a University of Wisconsin-Extension budget tool shows it will cost $1,017 per acre to plant corn for grain, while silage is estimated to cost $1,134 per acre. (wpr.org)
Tintinhull farmer Col Quast said the crops he grows to feed the turkeys he breeds are down about 25 to 30 per cent, and that he is having to source grain from elsewhere. (nvi.com.au)
Grain bagging and unloading implements are billed as pieces of iron that help farmers market for profit. (farm-equipment.com)
These conditions make temporary grain storage, like bagging grain, a good option for farmers. (farm-equipment.com)
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis was originally described in 1713 as an occupational lung disease in grain workers and later, in 1932, in farmers inhaling moldy hay contam- inated with thermophilic actinomyces, hence the term farmer's lung.1 With this recog- nition, modernization of farming methods has resulted in the reduction in farmer's lung prevalence estimated at 0.5% to 3% of exposed farmers in studies spanning from 1980 to 2003. (cdc.gov)

Mark Lehenbauer, who raises livestock and grows row crops near Palmyra, Missouri, said he's double-cropped for years and finds it reliably profitable. (chicagojournal.com)
From crop management techniques to livestock breeding strategies, our goal is to arm you with the tools you need for profitable farming. (farmersguardian.com)
Many groundbreaking innovations in crop resources, livestock health, aquaculture and genetic engineering among others. (isaaa.org)
Diseases in persons engaged in cultivating and tilling soil, growing plants, harvesting crops, raising livestock, or otherwise engaged in husbandry and farming. (bvsalud.org)

Cultivating perennial crops also makes it more difficult for weeds to establish themselves in the fields. (lu.se)

We find it important to cultivate a sufficient number of strategic farmers because their self-interested behavior alone, made possible by sufficient market information, can reduce price volatility and improve total social welfare. (informs.org)
The underlying reason for trying to produce more proteins from plants is that it takes much more energy to cultivate traditional proteins from animals, milk and meat. (lu.se)

For this to be possible, radical change in how we grow our major staple crops is essential. (lu.se)

So the growers and farmers in the area of Plant City pumped a billion gallons a day for 11 consecutive days to protect crops and actually lowered the groundwater table in the area by as much as 60-ft in some locations according to a spokeswoman for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. (geoprac.net)

Despite it being one of the most difficult for us to add - corn, a warm season grass - it was actually one of the first alternative crops to arrive in our area. (bigskyfarmher.com)
This report looks at tobacco farmers in the ASEAN region, the extent of tobacco cultivation, government support to assist tobacco growers, and efforts in alternative crops to tobacco. (who.int)

This socio-agri multidisciplinary nature of the challenge works advantageously to the problem, as now food security and crop loss are just not a concern of plant pathologists, but researchers from diverse fields are coming up with multidisciplinary methods to sustain life, which is also one of the main concern in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2 , 3 . (nature.com)
a truly integrated and holistic approach is necessary to ensure sustainable integration of plant health innovations into the agri-food systems and in social landscapes, so that the technologies reach all those who are in need, especially the small farm holders 7 . (nature.com)
Sustainable crop and horticultural improvements including through the optimal and sustainable utilisation of soils. (who.int)
Governments and policymakers should support tobacco farmers to switch to alternative, more sustainable livelihoods to reduce the environmental impact of tobacco growing, curing and manufacturing while continue to implement tobacco control measures. (who.int)

Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa) , a legume, is used as a cover crop to restore nitrogen to the soil for healthier plants. (almanac.com)
Soil fertility needs to be optimized when planting green in a cover crop with high carbon-to-nitrogen ratio. (no-tillfarmer.com)
Farming ants deposit nitrogen-rich feces directly inside plants, which has led to the evolution of these ultra-absorptive plant structures. (sciencedaily.com)
Dr Chomicki, the lead author of the study, says: 'The speed at which plants can take up nitrogen is a key limitation to plant growth rate. (sciencedaily.com)
Most plants, including our crops, take up nitrogen from the soil and are thus not naturally exposed to very high nitrogen concentrations. (sciencedaily.com)
Here, for millions of years, ants have deposited nitrogen-rich faeces directly inside the plants. (sciencedaily.com)
Ongoing work aims to decipher the genetic basis of the ultra-absorptive plant structures discovered in this study, which may ultimately be transferred to our crops and thereby increase their nitrogen uptake rate. (sciencedaily.com)
Decide what the primary goal of a cover crop is - i.e., grazing, soil health, soaking up excess moisture or sequestering nitrogen. (farmprogress.com)
Sending their roots down into bare soil, cover crops can increase soil carbon, provide slow-release nitrogen and prevent erosion. (livescience.com)
Elevated atmospheric CO2 is associated with decreased plant nitrogen concentration, and therefore decreased protein, in many crops, such as barley, sorghum, and soy. (cdc.gov)
The nutrient content of crops is also projected to decline if soil nitrogen levels are suboptimal, with reduced levels of nutrients such as calcium, iron, zinc, vitamins, and sugars. (cdc.gov)
Perennial crops such as Kernza have also proven to be better at reducing nitrogen leaching and building up humus content. (lu.se)

The USDA is making it easier for farmers to obtain crop insurance in hopes of coaxing them to follow in O'Connor's footsteps. (pressherald.com)
The USDA didn't mention climate change, but the agency and other experts have long said warming temperatures will spur farmers to rethink what they grow and how. (pressherald.com)
The USDA didn't respond to a request for details about how many farmers the agency hopes will begin double-cropping or how much U.S production could increase. (chicagojournal.com)
The ban on the crop will remain in place until a full and adequate EIS is prepared by USDA and they officially deregulate the crop. (civileats.com)
The environmental, health, cultural, and economic impacts of the genetically-engineered alfalfa seed, which is designed to be immune to Monsanto's flagship herbicide Roundup, and the USDA's plan to commercialize it, was at the heart of this dispute since 2006, when CFS filed a lawsuit against the USDA on behalf of a coalition of non-profits and farmers who wanted to retain the choice to grow non-GE alfalfa. (civileats.com)

Potentially fewer problems with slug and cutworm pests that move to the seedlings of the main crop when the cover crop is dead. (no-tillfarmer.com)
Every year farmers worldwide lose billions of dollars worth of food to pests. (ehow.com)

The Night Riders was the name given by the press to the militant, terrorist faction of tobacco farmers during a popular resistance to the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company (ATC) of James B. Duke. (wikipedia.org)
Originally known as the Silent Brigade, The Night Riders were a terrorist force opposed to the American Tobacco Company because it priced tobacco so low that farmers could not make any profit from their work. (wikipedia.org)
The major cause of the Black Patch Wars was the drastic reduction in price that the American Tobacco Company offered tobacco farmers for their crops. (wikipedia.org)
The Association would keep the tobacco in their own warehouses and pay the farmers when they sold its holdings. (wikipedia.org)
When the burley tobacco crop of 1906 and 1907 was boycotted by the ATC, farmers resorted to desperate measures. (wikipedia.org)
In the year 1908, more than 35,000 farmers in more than 30 counties did not plant tobacco, and an entire year's worth of crop was lost. (wikipedia.org)
Tobacco plants require heavy use of chemicals and fertilizers, which are known to deplete the soil and run off into water sources, contaminating drinking water. (who.int)
Often, plots of land used for growing tobacco may not be functional for growing other crops in off-seasons, as the soil fertility is depleted. (who.int)
From a socio-economic perspective, farmers are often under contractual arrangements with the tobacco industry and are trapped in a vicious circle of debt, unable to get a fair price for their product. (who.int)
Tobacco farmers may also earn less than other farmers in the agricultural sector. (who.int)
Land that could have been used for other useful crops is often being used to grow tobacco. (who.int)
WHO estimates that tobacco farmers may absorb nicotine equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes a day. (who.int)
A key aspect of implementation of the FCTC is to work with tobacco farmers on crop replacement and diversification which also has long-term economic, agricultural and health benefits. (who.int)
The tobacco industry overstates the number of farmers involved in tobacco cultivation. (who.int)
Brunei and Singapore have no tobacco farmers. (who.int)
The International Tobacco Growers Association (ITGA), a pro- tobacco industry group, however, claims an inflated 4 mil ion tobacco farmers in the ASEAN region. (who.int)
The ITGA claims Indonesia has 3.5 mil ion growers by including clove farmers, when in reality the actual number of tobacco growers is 689,360. (who.int)
tobacco is only one of many crops they plant as part of their cropping scheme. (who.int)
Although tobacco farming forms less than 1 percent of the agricultural sector in most countries, both the government and cigarette manufacturers in each country provide assistance to farmers. (who.int)
and workers exposed to moldy crops of grapes, tobacco, 7 sugarcane,8 and peat moss. (cdc.gov)

Leafcutter ants, the best-known insect farmers, belong to a lineage of insects that have been running fungus farms based on chopped-up vegetable matter for over 50 million years. (sciencedaily.com)
Farmers used DDT against a broad range of insects until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned it in 1972 because it also damaged the eggshells of the American bald eagle, thereby inhibiting reproduction. (ehow.com)
Insects such as beetles and worms can easily infest and destroy crops. (ehow.com)
Methyl parathion is a pesticide that is used to kill insects on crops. (cdc.gov)

The price fluctuation in agricultural markets is an obstacle to poverty reduction for small-scale farmers in developing countries. (informs.org)
High Plains Journal is a publisher of agricultural news, information, and analysis for farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness professionals across the High Plains region. (hpj.com)
Farmers Guardian is the ultimate resource for farmers, providing unparalleled coverage of the key issues and trends affecting the agricultural industry. (farmersguardian.com)
Join the Farmers Guardian community today and unlock a world of knowledge and opportunities for your agricultural business. (farmersguardian.com)
The agricultural sector includes crops produced by both small farmers and by highly technological agricultural groups. (bvsalud.org)
Research into developing and cultivating perennial alternatives to our common agricultural crops is underway in many different parts of the world - and interest is growing fast. (lu.se)

Create the enabling environment for cultivation of indigenous plant resources. (who.int)

The benefits of reduced pest and disease from planting green are still under investigation and need to be evaluated more thoroughly. (no-tillfarmer.com)
One other pest is a danger to sunflower crops: people. (spokesman.com)
Promote the adoption of appropriate integrated plant nutrition, pest and disease management options. (who.int)

Over the winter, these crops do the hard work of renewing your soil health, adding essential organic matter to the soil which improves soil structure and builds soil fertility. (almanac.com)
COVER CROPS TIPS: Abbey Wick, NDSU Extension soil health specialist, checks a cereal rye and radish cover-crop mix - one of the simpler mixes that she suggests first-time cover croppers use. (farmprogress.com)
If you are planting cover crops for the first time, Abbey Wick, North Dakota State University Extension soil health specialist, suggests planting what you are comfortable with and what you know you can control with herbicides. (farmprogress.com)

When Jeremy goes to buy his input products, and other farmers go to buy seed and chemicals and equipment and all these things, those dollars touch a lot of hands locally. (wjbf.com)
Most medicine is derived from plants before they are laced with synthetic chemicals by pharmaceutical companies. (naturalnews.com)
These antigens include organic dusts containing bacteria, fungi,4 animal or plant proteins, or low-molecular-weight chemicals. (cdc.gov)

We build a microfoundation to study how farmers with heterogeneous production costs, under price fluctuations, make crop-planting decisions over time to maximize their individual welfare. (informs.org)
More strikingly, the contract not only equalizes the individual welfare in the long run among farmers of the same production cost, but it also reduces individual welfare disparity over time among farmers with heterogeneous costs regardless of whether they are contract farmers or not. (informs.org)
Management: Do we have the time to produce this crop? (bigskyfarmher.com)
Is the crop stable enough to store for long periods of time? (bigskyfarmher.com)
Three countries officially grew biotech crops for the first time in 2008. (globalfarmernetwork.org)
As spring planting approaches, so is the time to deal with winter cover crops. (hpj.com)
Iowa State University plant scientist Patrick Schnable quickly described how he measured the time it takes for two kinds of corn plants to move water from their roots, to their lower leaves and then to their upper leaves. (sciencedaily.com)
Collectively, it means we're all on edge, and we know that really puts so much more stress and worry on our farmers at this time. (nvi.com.au)
This contrasts with planting into a cover crop that was killed 2 or 3 weeks before planting at a time that cover crop growth is exploding. (no-tillfarmer.com)
Planting cover crops for the first time? (farmprogress.com)
And at such time, farmers and consumers still have the right to challenge the adequacy of that process," said George Kimbrell, senior staff attorney for CFS. (civileats.com)
Let me ask you this question though - and we've been talking for a long time you and me - so I figure I can you ask this you'll give me the straight answer: You are, I think - and you kind of have to be, because farmers kind of have to be - you're an optimistic person by nature, but does this all not just kinda weigh on you? (marketplace.org)
The Century Club crops and recipes are not Limited Edition crops with an expiration time in FarmVille. (aol.com)
For veteran players who have been playing FarmVille for years, they will no doubt appreciate the benefit of being able to access the new Century Club crops because Crop Mastery is a not only a favorite FarmVille past time, it is still an area of farming that players enjoy, remain interested in, and are eager for more. (aol.com)

The window is starting to close on the main summer crops across the North West, including bean, sorghum and cotton," Mr Martin, who is also a member of NSW Farmers, said. (nvi.com.au)

Oats are fast-growing, cool-season crops with fibrous roots that loosens tight soil. (almanac.com)
flood the fields or just keep the soil extra moist or something else), but I know if dry soil freezes, it can pull moisture from the roots damaging the plant or tree. (geoprac.net)
Roots grow where stem nodes touch the ground, and most develop into the edible storage roots, usually four to ten storage roots per plant. (encyclopedia.com)

With irrigation from the mountains now dried up, farmer Chen said he has had no choice but to carry buckets to and from a nearby pond every morning to try to save his crops. (zawya.com)
Among the most popular are goCrop , which keeps track of irrigation systems, FieldView , which tells farmers what they've planted and where, as well as apps that do things like keep track of humidity, crops, and farm records. (marketplace.org)
One strategy to prevent damage to trees and crops in times of cold temperatures is to provide extra irrigation. (geoprac.net)
The irregular pattern of rainfall in the past three seasons is a major hindrance to increased crop productivity especially that none of the villages have any worthwhile irrigation infrastructure. (lu.se)
Despite the presence of water bodies, almost all of the irrigation is of the small-scale farmer constructed, water control devices managed by individual households. (lu.se)
Assuring the quality of river water routinely used for irrigation of crops is crucial as it can be a source association between the use of contaminated irrigation of foodborne pathogens (2,5) . (who.int)

The Center for Food Safety today celebrated the United States Supreme Court's decision in Monsanto v. Geerston Farms, the first genetically modified crop case ever brought before the Supreme Court. (civileats.com)
It's been 20 years since Monsanto developed its first genetically modified crops. (technologyreview.com)

Few farmers have been able to make hay or chop any forage crops. (themostimportantnews.com)

As the calendar ticks down to spring, Wisconsin farmers can expect to pay a record high amount to put their crops in the ground this year. (wpr.org)
He said that boils down to much thinner profit margins, even if crop prices remain at the higher levels seen last year. (wpr.org)
He said there is some evidence that fertilizer and energy costs are declining, two items that took a toll on farmers' profits last year. (wpr.org)
A new computational model could help farmers and seedmakers take the guesswork out of what to plant each year. (futurity.org)
Trials will be planted green on research and working farms in the coming month so we will learn a lot more of the benefits and challenges of this technique this year and over the following years. (no-tillfarmer.com)
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Florida Strawberry Festival held in Plant City. (geoprac.net)
Profitability can mean a lot to that employee in the year, whether it's a bonus or something like that, because our farmers are the backbone of so many of our rural communities like Wrens, where we are today. (wjbf.com)
Consider what you want to plant next year on that field. (farmprogress.com)
But you can get the benefits of wonderful scents naturally, and all year round, by adding certain plants to your living spaces. (naturalnews.com)
Crop production is setting records virtually every year in Southern California, California as a whole, the United States, and globally. (climatedepot.com)
If they buy it from me this year, they can plant for themselves next year. (technologyreview.com)
For its first birthday, a co-founder of the Women in Crop Science at CIMMYT, talks about their journey over the past year. (cimmyt.org)
The research deals with developing and cultivating perennial crops, i.e. crops that last several years and do not need to be sown every year. (lu.se)
Since perennial crops do not need to be sown every year, soil erosion can be reduced and nutrient leaching can be minimised. (lu.se)
As the crops are not sown every year, soil erosion can be reduced almost to zero and nutrient leaching can be minimised. (lu.se)

Several trials will be planted using this technique in a new research project by a group of researchers, extension educators, crop consultants and growers headed by Penn State agronomist Heather Karsten. (no-tillfarmer.com)

It proved effective against the Colorado potato beetle, an insect that was destroying crops across the United States and Europe. (ehow.com)
The survey respondents reported a long list of challenges, including cover-crop seed availability, increased insect potential and the risk of cover crops using too much soil moisture. (livescience.com)

Stress levels are measured based on the increase in nutrient uptake by plants as a mechanism of self-defense when under stress. (nature.com)
This trait is important in Africa because crops often do not get enough of this crucial nutrient for optimum production. (civileats.com)

A root cause is the dominance of annual plants cultivated in monocultures. (lu.se)
Furthermore, crops are to a large extent grown as monocultures, i.e. with large areas dedicated to a single crop with a minimum of genetic variation. (lu.se)

As fall approaches, it's unclear how many farmers will actually try the new system, but some who already grow two crops say it's something farmers should consider. (pressherald.com)
Young corn plants grow in a field in rural Ashland, Neb. (wpr.org)
If a farmer cannot market their crop they will not grow them. (bigskyfarmher.com)
Far more often farmers have to grow a certain crop for upwards of a decade successfully before the market arrives at their back door. (bigskyfarmher.com)
And when farmers grow less food, we all pay more under the basic economic law of supply and demand. (themostimportantnews.com)
Farmers are being hit from all sides, and that is not a good thing considering they grow the food most of us eat. (themostimportantnews.com)
It's a unique kind of farming where the ants grow not only their food, but also their home: the plants provide ready-made cavities in which the ants nest. (sciencedaily.com)
You can cut the middle man out and grow medicinal plants in your very own garden. (naturalnews.com)
Urbat's decision to grow sunflowers benefits both local farmers and the company, Thompson said. (spokesman.com)
It is traditional in Oaxaca, to grow crops in the same field. (theecologist.org)
This means that you will not be able to grow or craft the Century Club crops and recipes until you acquire enough XP to meet the level requirements to unlock them. (aol.com)
For those of you FarmVille farmers who have already obtained the maximum 125 level needed for the Century Club-- at least you have comfort in knowing that you can grow and master all these crops and recipes at your leisure. (aol.com)

The next question we ask ourselves is: Can we raise this crop given our soil type, rainfall, and other climate factors? (bigskyfarmher.com)
Coffea arabica plants present six phenological phases, all sensitive to changes in temperature and rainfall. (bvsalud.org)

The Court's decision affirmed that the threat of genetic contamination of natural plants posed by biotech crops is an issue of significant environmental concern now and in the future. (civileats.com)
Apart from genetic engineering, any new plant variety can also be patented. (technologyreview.com)

Crop production in 2020 is shaping up even better, with more new records forecast. (climatedepot.com)

In the last decade of the nineteenth century, farmers had earned a profit of from eight to twelve cents a pound, which was more than enough for a comfortable lifestyle. (wikipedia.org)

The Court further recognized that the threat of transgenic contamination is harmful and onerous to organic and conventional farmers and that the injury allows them to challenge future biotech crop commercializations in court. (civileats.com)
Central to the issue is unwanted transgenetic drift: GE alfalfa can spread uncontrollably by way of bees that can cross-pollinate plants many miles away, contaminating both conventional and organic alfalfa with foreign DNA, patented by Monsanto. (civileats.com)

Scientists are developing graphene-based, sensors-on-tape that can be attached to plants and can provide data to researchers and farmers about water use in crops. (sciencedaily.com)
This was a researcher interested in working with new, low-cost, easily produced, graphene-based, sensors-on-tape that can be attached to plants and can provide new kinds of data to researchers and farmers. (sciencedaily.com)
The tool making these water measurements possible is a tiny graphene sensor that can be taped to plants -- researchers have dubbed it a "plant tattoo sensor. (sciencedaily.com)

Farmers who double-crop often have smaller crops, but two smaller crops would still be significantly larger than an individual crop. (chicagojournal.com)
These costs can be significantly reduced with perennial crops. (lu.se)

The hope is that 'double-cropping' will help meet a growing global demand for food while generating more profit for farmers amid high fertilizer and fuel costs. (pressherald.com)
For example, one seed might be very good for early planting but not as high yielding if rain delays planting. (futurity.org)
Farmers suffered a big setback on May 12 when a high-intensity storm known as a derecho not only dropped excessive moisture but also damaged machinery needed to plant a good crop. (sdnewswatch.org)
When you develop a cover-crop mix, be sure to balance high-carbon crops with low-carbon crops. (farmprogress.com)
Although the High Court decision reverses parts of the lower courts' rulings, the judgment holds that a vacatur bars the planting of Monsanto's Roundup Ready Alfalfa until and unless future deregulation occurs. (civileats.com)
We also find that benign abiotic conditions, low degree of competition, and high interactive range between the plants and antagonistic herbivores or mutualistic pollinators can generate a higher level of diversification in both herbivores and pollinators. (lu.se)

However, if we look at the entire process - from planting the seed to placing the grown crops in our mouths - stores and consumers account for only a portion of the total waste. (lu.se)

Economic: Can we be profitable while raising this crop? (bigskyfarmher.com)
In some cases farmers have concluded that they were simply too far from the market for the crop to be profitable. (bigskyfarmher.com)

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