The crops look — well, like crops (sorry, I don't know about crops and there's only so much Googling time in the day).
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Also, unlike the big cash crops, specialty crops can't be hedged.
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Some farmers combine livestock, cover crops and row crops sequentially on the same field, or plant perennials, shrubs and even trees along with row crops.
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Early seeded crops are unlikely to reach average yields, while later planted crops may be only average, said Cory Jacob, the Saskatchewan government's crops extension specialist.
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He farms row crops and permanent crops using both organic and conventional techniques.
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"The inescapable conclusion," he says, "is that GE crops are pretty much just crops."
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Herbicide-resistant crops let farmers control weeds without plowing, and the same technology allows growers to kill off cover crops if they interfere with the planting of cash crops.
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But Roundup also often damaged the crops themselves, so Monsanto began manufacturing crops resistant to Roundup.
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The term "C3 crops" refer to most major food crops that uses the C3 photosynthesis process.
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" "If certain crops germinate/flower prematurely & a freeze follows, crops could fail or drop in yield.
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If certain crops germinate/flower prematurely & a freeze follows, crops could fail or drop in yield.
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The reason there is no difference is because GM crops and conventional crops are the same thing.
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"The excrement was used to fertilize crops, and the feces would have contaminated the crops," he said.
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Crops for the Future, an independent international organization, was specifically created to research underutilized crops for food.
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It is basically just Farm Bill jargon and a way to differentiate these crops from commodity crops.
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Crops include root crops such as sweet potato and cassava, as well as coconuts, bananas and coffee beans.
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Similar estimates do not yet exist for other crops, but experts such as Luby are confident that big commodity crops such as corn are even more heavily impacted than crops such as lettuce and carrots.
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From Brazil to Indonesia, the rush to cultivate biofuel crops has driven forest communities off their land and pushed farmers to switch from crops-for-food to more profitable crops-for-fuel - exacerbating food shortages.
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The USDA doesn't subsidize leafy vegetable crops in the same way it supports crops like wheat, soy, and corn — two crops that make up a lot of the junk food that overwhelms the US diet.
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China is the top market for many of their biggest crops and Beijing hit those crops with retaliatory tariffs.
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Update, January 5: This story was updated to clarify the difference between traditional GMO crops and CRISPR-modified crops.
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Since GMO crops have become widespread, the U.S. has seen environmental benefits from weed and pest resistant GMO-crops.
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Crops are now optimized to be bountiful instead of resilient, leaving many staple crops vulnerable to droughts and high temperatures.
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These are crops that hasn't been treated by the pesticide, but neonics spread through water and flowed into nearby crops.
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While organic crops are not pesticide free, peer-reviewed studies have found they have fewer pesticide residues than conventional crops.
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"97 percent of agriculture in America is crops and most of those crops are going to animal feed," said Wadiak.
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He was part of an agricultural team that trained Afghan farmers how to turn their poppy crops into food crops.
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This is untrue, a recent long-term study not only found that yields between industrial and organic farms were similar across a variety of crops, on average, organic crops returned nearly double the revenue of the conventional crops.
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But, with these preliminary results from the first crops, it looks as though the crops are finally ready to be eaten.
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"If you look at the profile of these crops, they are really superior to many staples and common crops," he said.
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These include planting cover crops, leaving organic matter in fields after harvest, rotating in additional kinds of crops and managing grazing.
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The crude summary goes like so: Despite all the controversy, the GM crops available to date — mostly a few crops engineered to be resistant to herbicides or to pests — are considered just as safe to eat as conventional crops.
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ANSES authorised sulfoxaflor for use on straw cereals like wheat as well as fruit and vegetable crops, but prohibited it for crops that attract pollinating insects and for all crops during flowering periods, noting potential toxic effects for bees.
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When you do not spray your crops, there is a very high likelihood of you losing so much crops to these pests.
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This was mostly background information about how local villagers lived, such as the crops they grew and the forest crops they gathered.
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U.N. agencies are recommending farmers grow different food crops to cope with low rainfall, such as replacing water-intensive crops with sorghum.
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Centered Crops, $69, available at PatagoniaBest for:he hallmarks of Patagonia construction are all also present in the design of the Centered Crops.
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Scientists keep seeds from important crops locked in seed vaults, but most vaults lack seeds from the wild relatives of important crops.
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Instead of merely planting traditional crops, the IoT-based device will evaluate the environmental conditions and soil conditions and suggest the crops accordingly.
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So what if you grew crops and then burned those crops for electricity, being sure to capture all of the carbon dioxide emitted?
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They are using more cover crops and are diversifying the crops they plant, rather than having fields and fields of corn and soybeans.
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So when we go out and look at innovating with crops, [it's] figuring out which of the crops the women are involved with.
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It would also reduce premiums to be paid by farmers to 2 percent for summer-sown crops and 1.5 percent for winter crops.
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"They swap the annual crops like maize, cotton and alfalfa for more permanent crops," said Wessel Lemmer, senior agricultural economist at Absa Bank.
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While summer crops struggle, the monsoon can help winter crops like wheat, rice, rapeseed, and chickpeas, reviving the rural parts of the country.
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In Sikkim, the yield for some crops has decreased after the state's push to go organic, but other crops, like maize, have increased.
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BOUIS: We have released biofortified crops in 30 countries, and we are doing the testing for release of the crops in another 25 countries.
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Called the Parrot Sequoia, this is a multispectral sensor specifically developed for crops and can record images of crops in four distinct spectral bands.
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The government has previously said it will roll out biotech varieties of industrial crops such as corn before moving to food crops like soya.
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Making things more complicated: Many new tools will increasingly make nonsense of our current regulatory distinctions between "genetically engineered" crops and "conventionally bred" crops.
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After excessive rains damaged summer-sown crops in 2019, India was banking heavily on winter-sown crops to fuel a rebound in rural earnings.
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Cultural norms mean that women and men tend to grow different crops and raise different types of animals — and because agricultural research tends to focus on the high-margin crops that men grow, there's been less innovation in the lower-margin crops that women farm.
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But because these pesticides are used to coat the seeds of crops, much of it leaches onto the soil, contaminating nearby wildflowers and other crops.
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One way to reduce stunting would be to improve the crops that Africans, particularly those in the countryside, actually eat—in other words, orphan crops.
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Most of the genetically modified crops contain genes from bacteria that make the crops resistant to certain insects or tolerant of Roundup or other herbicides.
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Think about it this way: instead of raising crops to feed people, there's an extra step of raising crops to raise animals to feed people.
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Traditional seed types and agricultural practices risk being lost, alongside cultural links to crops, through development projects to introduce higher-yielding and more marketable crops.
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The new agricultural research agenda must instead tap into indigenous practices on native crops and biodiversity, assume water scarcity and cover a broader mix of crops.
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Developing smarter agriculture will include creating better seeds as well as crops that grow with less water and crops that grow in harsher climates, he added.
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South American farmers are expected to harvest bumper corn and soybean crops this year, including record-large crops in Brazil, the continent's largest producer and exporter.
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Grain crops in the EU's largest producing country should also be affected, especially spring crops such as maize and sunflower which are at key development stages.
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They can inform futures traders about the state of crops across an entire continent, or individual farmers about the state of crops in a particular field.
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Without bees to pollinate crops, yields on about 35% of agricultural land worldwide would suffer, and 87 of the world's leading food crops would be affected.
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While water scarcity will be most noticeable in row crops such as corn and rice, it will also affect specialty crops like almonds and certain fruits.
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Heavy rains have damaged crops in eastern Australia, which produces that country's high-protein wheat, while wet weather has also hurt crops in Canada and France.
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Higher temperatures and altered growing seasons are making new crops possible in places where they weren't before, but that same heat is also hurting traditional crops.
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China does not allow the planting of genetically modified food crops, but imports of GM crops such as soybeans and corn for animal feed are fine.
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If a farmer grows row crops like soybeans, cotton and wheat, along with eligible livestock and specialty crops, they can collect payments from all three categories.
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It is registered for use on crops, including soybeans, almonds and tobacco, with some crops having as many as six applications per year, according to the EPA.
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A 143 study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found no significant difference in the health risks between genetically-modified crops and regular crops.
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The system uses advanced machine vision algorithms that can differentiate between healthy and diseased crops, and then apply a droplet only to the crops that need it.
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Groszyk, who personally makes all the deliveries to his 45 customers, said he chooses certain crops based on customer feedback and grows new crops based on special requests.
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ProducePay reaches out to farms to buy their crops at a price that the company sets up front, then goes out and sells those crops on the market.
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"If the idea was commercialized and applied to real farms and real crops I definitely think the impact that drought has on crops would be reduced," she says.
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The US is currently the biggest grower of GM crops, but, for the fourth year in a row, developing countries planted more new GM crops than industrialized countries.
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Higher incentives for water-intensive crops like wheat and rice have made India a big grains producer at the cost of other key crops like lentils and oilseeds.
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Nine of Sub-Saharan Africa's staple crops were examined and six of these nine crops were generally expected to be stable even given moderate to extreme climate change.
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Dicamba is sprayed by farmers on crops genetically modified to resist it but it has drifted, damaging vulnerable soybeans, cotton and other crops across the southern United States.
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Crops like soybeans and peanuts have microbes in their roots that perform the same reaction that chemical plants do — such crops, in other words, produce their own fertilizer.
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Moreover, crops from indoor farms might not match the nutrition of soil-grown crops, because the medium the plants are grown in is either hydroponic or assembled substrates.
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Second, the report further outlines strategies such as incentivizing farmers to shift food production away from large quantities of a few crops to diverse production of nutritious crops.
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Apparently, "all tubers are root crops, but not all root crops are tubers," and there are many ways to distinguish the part of a plant that grows underground.
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In March, the Department of Agriculture announced that it was not planning to regulate gene-edited crops as it does crops with foreign genes inserted with recombinant DNA.
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The United Nations said Winston had destroyed crops and more than 31,000 homes, and that flooding in recent weeks had washed away many crops planted after the cyclone.
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Unlike other crops such as corn, wheat, and rice, producers of seasonal and perishable crops do not have the option of storing their yields until market prices stabilize.
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Farmers have been upset over the damage it causes to crops such as soybeans when it drifts to crops other than the ones it was designed to treat.
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In Europe this year, late spring frosts that damaged crops were followed by heavy rains that washed the crops out of the ground and flooded fields for weeks.
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What had Mark lit up was cover crops: fields of noncash crops like hairy vetch and cereal rye that act on soil like a nourishing facial after the harvest.
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More people ate more crops and owned more livestock—like cattle, pigs, goats, and sheep—which meant more poop from that livestock could be used to grow more crops.
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Zurn was also voted onto the board of the Northern Crops Institute, a collaborative effort among North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana to promote, develop and market crops.
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"They would prefer to take cash because they don't want to disrupt their own agricultural economy by having foreign crops come in and displace domestically produced crops," he said.
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In the past few years, farms in the San Joaquin Valley have converted to more profitable crops such as almonds and pistachios, even though they are water-intensive crops.
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Farmers of key crops such as soybeans, corn, wheat and cotton are part of the program as well as some specialty crops, including tree nuts, cranberries, grapes and cherries.
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The pest - a moth which devours crops in the caterpillar stage of its lifecycle - prefers maize but can feed on some 80 crops, including rice, vegetables, groundnuts and cotton.
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India does not break down spending on individual crops but food subsidy spending for all crops for the 13/19 financial year will be 1.69 trillion rupees ($24.65 billion).
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Beijing had only approved two of the eight biotech crops waiting for import approval, despite gathering experts to review the crops on two occasions in a six-week period.
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By giving farmers the opportunity to produce higher quality crops, Indigo is fundamentally changing how crops like corn and wheat — typically viewed as commodities — are valued by the market.
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It is registered for use on over 200 crops, including soybeans, almonds and tobacco, with some crops having as many as six applications per year, according to the EPA.
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In addition, even some non-GMO crops, including wheat, oats, barley, and beans, are sprayed with glyphosate in a practice called desiccation, which dries the crops and speeds ripening.
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The IP around how to do this — which crops to grow, which trees and ponds to leave in place, and how to rotate those crops — is a valuable product.
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Responsible farmers are already employing many techniques to limit their pollution impact, from cover crops to buffer zones to reducing their use of fertilizer and manure on their crops.
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For years, the company reaped huge profits from selling its popular weedkiller, glyphosate (known as "Roundup") in tandem with crops genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate (known as "Roundup Ready" crops).
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China has spent billions on research of biotech crops, but it has not yet approved the planting of any GM varieties of staple food crops amid deep-seated consumer opposition.
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The impacts on crops are more mixed, with lower-latitude regions experiencing some declines in maize and wheat crops, whereas higher-latitude regions have seen some increases in crop yields.
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It is important to note that crops tend to be regional and seasonal, so high temperature and heavy rains are not bad to all regions and all kinds of crops.
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Drought and searing heat have scorched crops in the western portion of the state, but crops along the eastern border and in neighboring Minnesota so far have escaped major damage.
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Seed banks serve as a kind of genetic Noah's Ark for crops, keeping copies of as many different species of crops as possible to ensure food security in the future.
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Beijing has spent billions of dollars researching GMO crops and has said it is aiming for commercialization of the first GMO corn and soybean crops within the next five years.
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"You can show where we have water and not, the type of crops, where certain crops grow well and it can even detect pollution in the rivers," GSSTI's Aggrey added.
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Because the machinery of photosynthesis in many of the world's food crops is identical to that of tobacco, theory suggests that a comparable manipulation of those crops should increase production.
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It's just another odd way the booming cannabis industry is having downstream effects on other crops—starting with coffee, and possibly following up with crops like bananas and sugar and hops.
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The United States is the biggest producer of GMO crops and has long been at the forefront of technology aiming to protect crops against insects or allow them to resist herbicides.
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The causes of the pressure on these creatures intertwine: aggressive agricultural practices that grow crops on every available acre eliminate patches of wildflowers and cover crops that provide food for pollinators.
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What separates the good crops from the bad crops appears to be rainfall-related, particularly in the March to April time frame, and not related to the crop conditions early on.
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Finally, there have been cases in which GM crops like canola have escaped into the wild; and sometimes GM crops like herbicide-resistant alfalfa have transferred modified traits to wild relatives.
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That's because cows need crops or grass to feed on, yet are four-legged factories of the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide, which endanger those crops by raising global temperatures.
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For the two most important Midwestern crops, corn and soybeans, the 163 figures showed 11.4 million acres for corn and 4.5 million acres for soybeans that went without crops being planted.
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China does not allow cultivation of any GM varieties of corn or other staple food crops although it does permit the import of some GMO crops for use in animal feed.
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Their crops — and ultimately their livelihoods — depend on it.
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The committee concludes that the use of crops has generally provided economic benefits for the farmers and can increase their output in certain cases, for instance, by protecting crops from insect damage.
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The coca crops, which are nearly always grown alongside traditional food crops, were drenched in a super-strength version of Roundup, a herbicide created by Monsanto, which contains a chemical called glyphosate.
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But the main culprits for the smog are farmers in the neighboring regions of Punjab and Haryana, who are burning off the "stubble" of old crops, to make way for new crops.
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By continuing to heavily subsidize particular crops, mainly corn and soy, as well as the industrial methods of producing these crops, we are simply continuing to fund and incentivize the wrong things.
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In an initiative to cut the world's dependency on major crops like wheat and rice - Britain's Prince Charles has launched the Forgotten Foods Network to rediscover long-lost crops, fruit and vegetables.
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Plastic mulch, basically thin sheeting placed over individual crops, is used throughout China's arid and dusty north to improve growing conditions and boost yields by retaining moisture for crops and suppressing weeds.
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Food supply: A hotter climate can be both good for crops (it lengthens the growing season, and more carbon dioxide can increase photosynthesis) and bad for crops (excess heat can damage plants).
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In response, he says, farmers are moving from crops that require careful handling, like apricots—"just look at an apricot and it will turn brown"—to crops that can be harvested by machine.
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After a farmer sprayed glyphosate on his crops, the wind would pick it up and carry it to nearby fields, killing crops that were not genetically engineered to withstand exposure to the chemical.
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Months of drought had left more than a third of the population reliant on food aid, and the government last month invoked the Special Crops Act, which bans the export of some crops.
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While demand will be lower, the country also planted less corn, the ministry said in its monthly crops report, thanks to a greater-than-expected shift in the type of crops being grown.
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"The four crops are therefore safe to eat and for some heavy metals, the concentrations were even lower than in the crops grown in potting soil," the team said in a press release.
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Ardent's plan to help farmers, for instance, pays them more for crops grown on land undergoing the three-year transition and helps them choose rotational crops they can sell to supplement their income.
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Instead of growing crops in a field or a greenhouse, a vertical farm creates an artificial indoor environment in which crops are cultivated on trays stacked on top of each other (see article).
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Countries susceptible to drought should move away from irrigating their crops and focus on rain-fed agriculture, growing crops like lentils and chickpeas instead of the water-intensive livestock feed alfalfa, he explained.
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U.S. farmers have been frustrated for years over Beijing's slow approval process for biotech crops, which prevents the sales of some varieties of crops like corn and soybeans planted in the United States.
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Finally, subsidies and other types of political agricultural planning harm the country by incentivizing farmers to plant crops that are subsidized, mandated, or both, rather than crops that make sense for their land.
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Yet something else also crops up among Chipotle bulls: sausage.
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Maize is one of the world's most important cereal crops.
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Without them ... our crops require laborious, costly pollination by hand.
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Many private estimates in Argentina count only commercial corn crops.
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Select crops will be grown indoors using hydroponics (without soil).
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There aren't a large variety of crops grown in India.
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They question Sedogo: Has he changed the crops he's planting?
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Palermo's knack for coordination crops up twice in one outfit.
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Which plants and potentially crops would be lost without it?
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In the case of crops, this could be a disaster.
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The low price has some farmers looking for alternative crops.
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For some growers, even switching crops may not save them.
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"When sleep is deep," he writes, "the crops become ripe."
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Other crops, like lettuces and asparagus, still required human pickers.
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Crops are ravaged, food spoils and workers become less productive.
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In other words, wild bees are valuable for our crops.
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They "destroyed our crops, they burnt our food", he says.
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They require about 85,000 workers annually to harvest their crops.
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Crops would die and starvation could kill most of humanity.
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The company first started with potato crops, vineyards and cereals.
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These can ruin crops, harm the environment and harm consumers.
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The U.S. first crops up at No. 18 (Los Angeles).
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Periodic light rains expected this week should benefit those crops.
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Such crops are thus vulnerable to changes in their environment.
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Instead, for these three crops, it was the exact opposite.
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Orphan crops have yet to undergo such a genetic revolution.
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His family planted crops and worked at a small shop.
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Others may just cut back on growing crops like alfalfa.
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To grow crops, colonists will likely build subterranean hydroponic greenhouses.
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Market prices for many crops typically run well below MSPs.
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Pesticides are devastating insects, including those our crops crucially need.
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Growing a community the right way is like planting crops.
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But sexism also crops in the culture surrounding that fiction.
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He said the crops affected are predominantly corn and soybeans.
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Something big is going on, threatening coastlines, crops and wildlife.
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That's the opposite of annual crops like rice and tomatoes.
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What was I going to say — 'Oh, we picked crops'?
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Farmland Partners is also diversifying into less volatile specialty crops.
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Our horses, our cattle, our crops, all use this water.
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Protected by the bees, farmers can tend their crops again.
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Tariffs on major crops would reduce prices to U.S. farmers.
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For instance, China is threatening tariffs on U.S. soy crops.
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Others are now farming silkworms alongside other crops like watermelons.
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Eventually, most major crops across Mexico will have support prices.
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The group grows crops, self governs, and hosts raucous parties.
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Rangers helped her string barbed wire to protect her crops.
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This is clearly not an option for alternative rubber crops.
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People are damaging it by burning (crops) and by polluting.
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Clear the land so you can plant and harvest crops.
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Animals and crops include turkeys, goats, chickens, potatoes, and sunflowers.
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Human hands and technology can pollinate crops, but it's pricey.
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Bees pollinate more than a third of the world's crops.
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As a result, good crops are rotting in the field.
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Forest was cleared to make way for the rubber crops.
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Many affected people have lost their homes, crops, and livestock.
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Climate change policies that ignore catastrophic effects on their crops.
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But farmers are clearing the forest for crops and cattle.
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Subsistence crops like corn and beans are all but dying.
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It also trades cotton, corn, barley, soybeans and other crops.
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Crops have suffered damage across much of the farm belt.
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It suddenly started devouring their crops in the early 2000s.
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And to do that, they must combine cattle with crops.
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SC: Bread crops up a lot in The Hunger Games.
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Farmers asked for investigations into the crops damaged by livestock.
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But these crops may be barred from import into Europe.
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They can't immediately grow more crops or milk more cows.
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She'd initially been locked up for raiding the neighbors' crops.
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Why are specialty crops still not getting enough attention today?
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Some parts of the state produced bumper crops last year.
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Instead, taxpayers subsidize the corn growers and other commodity crops.
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They're also farmworkers who harvest crops at small family farms.
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Their crops had been scorched, their villages had been pillaged.
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Specialty crops growers also may be dealt a difficult blow.
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Who the hell do you think will harvest our crops?
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Despommier spent a decade growing crops indoors with his students.
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More than 230 crops spring from the Central Valley alone.
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Wednesdays were often market day — the day for selling crops.
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"The rest of the crops were all destroyed," she said.
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Most crops grown beneath panels must be picked by hand.
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The state also grows tangerines and other specialty citrus crops.
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This new approach to crops is fundamentally different from GMOs.
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Crops were approaching the point when irrigation becomes most important.
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It was invented for farmers to cut weeds and crops.
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They tracked down 371 wild relatives of 28 staple crops.
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It's floodwater invading our homes and drought destroying our crops.
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Building markets for the new crops has taken time, however.
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Scott obtained letters ordering Kerr to deliver crops to her.
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China has curbed its purchases of American crops in retaliation.
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Extreme heat also affects the nutritional value of many crops.
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"Agricultural land that will be offered is across Iraq and investors should choose what crops to grow but we are giving priority to strategic crops like wheat, barley, corn, sesame and rice," he said.
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The volume of pollinator dependent crops (which range from cocoa to avocados) has increased by 300 percent in the last 50 years, and such crops account for approximately 973 percent of all agricultural land.
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Its CEO, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali, said he hopes that their research will provide an opportunity for forgotten crops to diversify the global market, and incentivize farmers to plant a wider variety of crops.
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The vast, vast majority of GM crops on the market today are corn, soy, canola, and cotton crops that have been modified to be resistant to either certain insects or certain herbicides (or both).
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Many farmers would love to implement regenerative agricultural practices, a big part of which includes creating a biodiverse ecosystem with many different crops, but who would they sell the extra, low-demand crops to?
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Well, they have proven something of a disappointment; the common ones compete with food crops, and the ones that use alternate, non-food crops never seem to bust out of the demonstration-plant phase.
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Johnson Irungu, the director of crops at the ministry of agriculture, said the team was sent in two weeks ago after reports the pests had appeared in maize crops being grown by farmers using irrigation.
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The agency urged farmers to control weeds by planting crops in rows 15 inches (38 cm) wide or less, use a variety of different weed killers and rotate crops in fields from year to year.
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Dicamba has long been used to kill weeds before crops are planted, but its use has spiked this season across the United States after regulators last year approved it for crops that are already growing.
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Ben Gilpin, a director at the Commercial Farmers Union, said crops in the maize producing belts were showing signs of moisture stress while in the northern and southern parts of the country crops were wilting.
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While crops are not growing in North America during the winter season, traders are still looking for updated information from South America and other parts of the world where soy and other crops are growing.
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Trees have died, crops have withered, animals have shrunk to skeletons.
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Ammonia from this process fertilizes crops, which in turn nourish you.
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He farms with his father, harvesting crops from his family's fields.
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Among the most popular crops are tomatoes, mint and even tobacco.
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Brazilian crops are becoming more competitive with the U.S. agriculture industry.
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In the clearing left by the shrine, villagers have planted crops.
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That in turn could destroy crops and even alter the climate.
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After all, content continually crops up that's a matter of interpretation.
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They want to protect their crops from herbivores such as deer.
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And distributing harvested crops around the country doesn't just require manpower.
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Crops, cows, power stations and factories all need lots of water.
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Caterpillars, stem borers and mirid bugs were also damaging the crops.
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To keep the soil healthy he rotates his crops each year.
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If they do not tend the fields, the crops will die.
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The Minnesota crops should enter these stages about three weeks later.
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Lettunich driving to his crops alongside the point of entry fence.
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MORAL hazard is a problem that crops up frequently in economics.
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MORAL hazard is a problem that crops up often in economics.
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A stereotypical Hutu is shorter, has broader features and grows crops.
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Also, farmers can use large planting machines to plant crops quickly.
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I can plant it in crops for export, whatever I want.
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They are also farmworkers who harvest crops at small family farms.
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There was extensive damage to crops along swaths of southern Haiti.
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Can the soil chemistry support the crops we want to grow?
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But many farmers remain convinced they should switch to other crops.
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So that's Kenya, how do you get fertilizer to grow crops?
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The crops are then shipped across the country in food products.
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It hits a variety of crops, ranging from tomatoes to trees.
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He suspects their drivers are farmers intent on protecting their crops.
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Conventional crops are more costly to store and harder to sell.
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Already-long dry seasons are growing longer and drier, withering crops.
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Today, Medfly still threatens crops through throughout North America and Australia.
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They are neglected by breeders because they are not cash crops.
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To make ends meet, she would sell her crops to neighbors.
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Tariffs also have a ripple effect across other crops, he said.
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Businesses may go under, too, abandoning the crops in the field.
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Several dogs have been killed while helping officers eradicate coca crops.
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Growers can support bees by planting these species near their crops.
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Exceptionally hot, dry weather has hit some crops in northern Europe.
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Several pooches have been killed while helping officers eradicate coca crops.
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They work with other pollinators to help farmers produce these crops.
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Now, with crops in the ground, things will be looking up.
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It has also prevented many farmers from planting and harvesting crops.
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That contributed to bumper corn and wheat crops in recent years.
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Groundwater is essential to ensure farmers can grow enough food crops.
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The good condition of U.S. crops was hanging over the market.
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For thousands of years, farmers interbred crops to alter their genes.
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The scene blends a battleground and a field of desecrated crops.
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So it's more than just stock photos of cows and crops.
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Dry weather now also threatens crops in another important exporter, Australia.
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Permanent crops mean you can't idle farm land during dry years.
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The use of natural gas in fertilizing crops bumps up demand.
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An elephant is a bulldozer for your crops and your community.
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And wheat and corn prices, among other crops, have all plummeted.
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Common crops farmed by WorldCover clients include maize, rice and peanuts.
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There's some irony to employing a robotic wolf to protect crops.
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It takes time for customers to arrive or crops to grow.
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Farmers say their crops have been destroyed by the herders' cattle.
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There's more to making a vertical farm successful than growing crops.
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The war crops up here and there in the "Folly" section.
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But not all of wheat's competitor crops outscored 2015 on acres.
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It took more than eradicating the cocoa-crops of southern Colombia.
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Tractors plowed over the crops and sprayed the land with chemicals.
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Latin American crops will be ready to harvest in early 2019.
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They need it to water their crops and feed their livestock.
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Many growers of soybeans also plant corn, wheat and other crops.
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The pesticide is commonly used on corn, soybean and oat crops.
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Farmers who depend on rainfall have lost their crops and livelihoods.
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The weed climbs high above row crops, blocking out the sun.
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Here they're gliding towards what is usually fields of soybean crops.
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To be eligible for payments, crops must be planted by Aug.
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With that, there goes your ability to easily mass produce crops.
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It's sparking bigger wildfires and longer droughts, and killing our crops.
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It's polluting to the man, and it's polluting to the crops.
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So why does an open field of crops equal a revamp?
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The company is already planning to target new crops and regions.
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They had visited our crops, and our employees were already certified.
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So the engineers designed Tarzan to live amongst the crops permanently.
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Farmers also burn the land to grow crops, such as soybeans.
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The more fertile land is the valleys, where most crops grow.
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The field will be ready to grow organic crops next year.
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Weed resistance problems in such crops have pushed overall usage up.
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One hundred fifteen millimeters is not enough for crops to grow.
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The pressure to produce more crops has transformed the agricultural land.
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"We kill one and another one crops up," said one reporter.
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Some are cases of "cattle mischief" — straying livestock that eat crops.
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Even blackface has not disappeared — it crops up especially around Halloween.
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Potential damage to crops, such as orange vegetables, is also notable.
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Farm policy for many generations has been dominated by commodity crops.
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Huge chunks of the Farm Bill are devoted to commodity crops.
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Behind them, they leave hectares of dead fruit and vegetable crops.
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Remaining as crops fail and children suffer is not an option.
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Crops are going to waste in parts of Mississippi and Arkansas.
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Floods in 2016 wiped out more than half of his crops.
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Still, it remains unclear whether the drugs even work on crops.
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Christmas trees are crops grown on farms, like lettuce or corn.
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The season for harvesting crops and planting vegetables was days away.
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They simply couldn't water their lands or even harvest the crops.
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The delays made the crops more vulnerable to damage from frost.
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They also want compensation for damage to their crops and health.
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Birds protect crops from insects, pollinate flowers and spread plant seeds.
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In Nebraska alone, around $50 million in crops is at stake.
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But it's not cheap, and far less sustainable than growing crops.
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Output of most crops has soared to record levels each year.
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Honduran coffee-farmers are seeing their crops wither in the heat.
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The fundings helps subsidize coverage for farmers who face underperforming crops.
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It could prove particularly efficacious with high-value crops, he added.
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"So whatever you plant, the crops get spoiled," the chief said.
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Only a handful of such crops are grown around the world.
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No, not the four-letter one, though it crops up frequently.
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Worldwide, insects pollinate more than 75 percent of our food crops.
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The cold season was stronger and that damaged the crops, too.
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Locusts can cause catastrophic devastation to crops, pastureland — even to trees.
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Invisipeel can be applied while crops are still in the field.
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The corn and soy crops provide more income opportunities for farmers.
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Adams, a fourth-generation farmer, won't have any crops this season.
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These crops included wild bananas, lentils, chickpeas, potatoes, sorghum, and carrots.
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Their method began with gleaning, or collecting leftover crops from farms.
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This is because they worry bad weather will affect the crops.
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Opponents say some crops are grown on plantations that cause deforestation.
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Crops affected include cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, rocket and radish, it said.
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In addition, crops grown to feed them are causing forest loss.
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Much of our soybean and corn crops had nowhere to go.
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Rivendale, including pasture land, cover crops and woods, spans 175 acres.
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At least 4,000 houses and 325,000 hectares of crops were destroyed.
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And heaven forbid an emergency crops up — then it's all over.
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They will be asked to provide data on their current crops.
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The Big Issue was the first to write about GM crops.
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Most of the GMO crops we eat were created by Monsanto.
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"In the part of a field where we had planted cover crops, we were getting 20 to 25 bushels of corn more per acre than in places where no cover crops had been planted," he said.
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The doctors also advise Sedogo to plant a wider variety of crops, to plant them in new areas each season and to convince his neighbors to bring samples of their own crops in for a consultation.
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Rose Marcario, president and CEO of Patagonia, and David Bronner, CEO of Dr. Bronner's, argued that farmers should rotate crops, compost, plant cover crops and reduce tillage rather than rely on fertilizers and soil-mixing machines.
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"Thought must be given to reducing vulnerability ... through supporting more diverse and nutritious diets, enriching the nutritional content of staple crops, and breeding crops less sensitive to these CO2 effects," said senior research scientist Samuel Myers.
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Under the draft German law, applicants seeking EU approval to cultivate GMO crops will be asked by the German government to remove Germany from the area in the EU where the crops are approved for growing.
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Those includes mulching fields to save water, planting crops in dug-out basins filled with manure, planting different types of crops together in a field and using fertilizer in small doses just where it is needed.
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"The cabbage stem flea beetle has decimated a lot of crops," Jack Watts, Chief Combinable Crops Advisor with the National Farmers Union, said, adding in some counties harvested area could be down as much as 50%.
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That means virtually all products containing derivatives of crops like corn, soy, canola and sugar from sugar beets will need labels, as most of those crops in the United States are grown from genetically modified seeds.
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Also, a recent National Academy of Sciences report found that "there was little evidence" that the introduction of genetically modified crops in the United States had led to yield gains beyond those seen in conventional crops.
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Dicamba has long been used to kill weeds prior to the planting of crops, but its use has spiked this season across the United States after regulators last year approved it for crops that are already growing.
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In Germany, straw crops have wilted under a combination of drought and the highest July temperatures since 1881, with shorter stalks reducing straw crops yields by 20 to 40 percent in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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The herbicide-resistant crops have some downsides: They can lead to farmers' using more herbicide (though the type of herbicide is important, and the new crops have often led to the use of safer, less toxic ones).
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Mature cane withstands heavy rainfall or dry spells and is also less vulnerable to pest and diseases compared to other crops, said farmer Sharad Mate, who has lost pulse crops due to droughts and un-seasonal rainfall.
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Bumper grain and oilseed crops in the United States and Canada lifted earnings in Cargill's crop origination and processing business, more than offsetting a downturn in South America after adverse weather reduced crops in Brazil and Argentina.
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Trade damage from unfair retaliation has impacted American farmers who grow a host of U.S. commodities, including field crops like soybeans and sorghum, livestock products like milk and pork, and many fruits, nuts, and other specialty crops.
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That huge price-tag is the primary reason that more than 99 percent of the genetically engineered crop acreage currently cultivated is huge-scale commodity crops, while so-called "specialty crops" — fruits, nuts and vegetables — are underrepresented.
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"The last ten years have been trial and error with who and where to grow cannabis crops—we've tried big crops in factories, which are great until they're found, and then it's a big loss," he explained.
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While Bear Flag pursues expanding capabilities to tasks like planting and spraying that have long demanded human supervision, it also plans to expand to the labor-intensive harvest duties of crops including tree nuts and row crops.
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This year's below average rains, after two straight years of drought, could cut yields of summer-sown crops that are currently ripening for harvesting and also hit the planting of winter-sown crops like wheat and chickpeas.
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Cover crops are coming back in other areas of the country, too.
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Australian farmers begin sowing crops in late April, typically after heavy rains.
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The heat has exacerbated a dry spell, hurting crops in some places.
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Main roads to Mogadishu are impassable, with large areas of crops damaged.
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The unforeseen consequences of powerful tools is another thing that crops up.
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His father and grandfather taught him about the best crops to grow.
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Central America's arabica crops are on the front lines of climate change.
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Facilitation for Agricultural Crops told Reuters it never falsified its wheat procurement.
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It will also help the crops that are already in the ground.
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He worries about losing his crops to plagues, fires, draughts, or frosts.
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Demeter's desperate search causes the crops and wildlife to fall into neglect.
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CRISPR technology helps producers optimize photosynthesis and the vitamin content of crops.
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Dow has lobbied the Trump administration to keep chlorpyrifos available for crops.
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Billions of locusts have been destroying crops in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
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Drones with specialized cameras are increasingly used for monitoring crops and livestock.
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Now back then, legislators returned to their farms to tend the crops.
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Some policyholders might lose their crops but receive no payout, discouraging others.
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The exchange said 76.7% of the planting area was already yielding crops.
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In some areas, farmers have permission to grow crops on government land.
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Farmers today test the chemical composition of their crops through outsourced labs.
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It assembles phenotypes of vegetable crops even as it gobbles up weeds.
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Emirati-built ports could one day export crops from Emirati-owned farms.
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We pass women in colorful clothing planting vegetable crops in their yards.
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Some crops in the south of the country have been totally destroyed.
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Think of it something like rotating crops to keep the soil healthy.
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SALIC has targeted investments in beef and eight key crops, including wheat.
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Other staple food crops had their genomes sequenced long before bread wheat.
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As a result, crops are less able withstand extreme changes in weather.
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The rains are crucial for rain-fed crops planted during the season.
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It contributes to global warming and hurts cocoa crops, which need shade.
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But this has put their crops – and even their lives – at risk.
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Diesel fuel is essential for planting, harvesting, and shipping crops to market.
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It's harvest time for some crops, so I even worry about that.
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Conversely, they are not cash crops because they are neglected by breeders.
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Government scientists keep trying to make a case for GM food crops.
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Bees aren't the only pollinators, but they pollinate the majority of crops.
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Testing drugs and genetically modified crops is a long and costly business.
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Farmers will need more of the product to haul crops to market.
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Other crops, like corn, are already seeing autonomous systems enter the workforce.
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The Midwest corn and soybean crops are off to a strong start.
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I don't think it's a climate that's conducive to orchard crops anymore.
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He's even more entertaining when he crops people out of his photos.
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Arable's Pulsepod helps vineyards track conditions effecting their crops on the ground.
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Maybe you grew crops in Farmville or scrimmaged in Clash of Clans.
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Some scientists claim that dousing crops in glyphosate may be harmful, however.
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Garlic farmers see little of the profits once their crops are lifted.
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Usually it rather happens late August, early September, after maize crops' flowering.
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They each handle tens of millions of tonnes of crops every year.
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In February, wheat farmers in Bangladesh noticed something unusual about their crops.
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But patchy rains have left crops highly variable across the western provinces.
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This years ads felt fresh compared to the crops of years past.
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Would the USDA consider crops with alterations of their own DNA problematic?
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One topic that crops up regularly on Turner's timeline is mental health.
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Cargill's partnership with PURIS includes breeding pea crops for higher protein content.
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Studies indicate that crops would utilize water more efficiently, requiring less water.
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We're close to the mangroves where people hunt, fish and grow crops.
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He is irrigating his crops with water drawn from a nearby pond.
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He does not know in advance what price his crops will fetch.
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They are, after all, growing water-intensive crops like potatoes and corn.
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But most farmers grow low-value crops without decent fertiliser or seeds.
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Humans also destroyed much of their habitat to make way for crops.
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And farmers tend to shoot the deer when they go near crops.
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But tests suggest that the system also works for other, chunkier crops.
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U.S. farmers are growing more crops on less land than ever before.
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Farmers are learning how to use drones to better manage their crops.
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The hives hang from wires encircling the crops in need of protection.
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They also help form acid rainand ozone that damage crops and ecosystems.
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Farmers claim the hogs tear up their land and destroy their crops.
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When the bioenergy crops grow, they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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The total worldwide acreage of genetically modified crops fell slightly in 22015.
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The aid will be used to assist and buy crops from farmers.
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China has retaliated with duties on U.S. products, including key agricultural crops.
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Other firms are targeting trendy sectors like pharmaceutical crops and alternative proteins.
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But for the spring-planted crops, the season is far from over.
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How are farmers able to manage growing crops on this daunting scale?
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Timely rains trigger planting of crops such as rice, soybeans and cotton.
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Good farmers have many tools for protecting their crops including alternative pesticides.
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Over 90% of households grow crops, while more than 80% breed livestock.
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China floated retaliatory measures on U.S. goods such as crops and aircraft.
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China floated retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods such as crops and aircraft.
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A global crops oversupply has hammered profits for grain trading and processing.
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And with desert heat comes desert droughts, sparking wildfires and killing crops.
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When he awoke, almost everything had vanished: cattle, crops, fields and homes.
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CN is "fully prepared" to quickly transport crops, spokesman Mark Hallman said.
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Why it's important: Domesticating crops was one of humans' most innovative moves.
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And it's also the way you make sure the crops are healthy.
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Fruits and vegetables are more difficult and labor-intensive crops to harvest.
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His small plot of corn and bean crops had failed, he said.
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For farmers, doing without genetically modified crops is not a simple choice.
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And in the center, my kitchen garden, where the crops change seasonally.
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Indonesia has many small landholder farmers that produce important crops like rice.
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Their population expanded into East Africa, bringing crops and animals with them.
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But older crops whose DNA has been altered will be left alone.
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Without water, crops wither, and that exposes bare soil to further erosion.
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They planted trees on hilltops and planted cover crops on degraded areas.
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Those UV rays would also harm crops and the marine food chain.
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We have large crops not only in Ukraine but in Europe, Russia.
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And even if you stay in specialty crops, there are huge differences.
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"There's no rain, and no way to grow crops," Mateo Mateo said.
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Smaller almond and stone-fruit crops could push up prices for consumers.
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Farmers use slash-and-burn tactics to clear forest areas for crops.
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They protect humans and crops by eating insects and pollinating fruit trees.
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"It's tough work, out bending over, harvesting crops all day," Stenzel said.
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Eventually, she wears a breathing mask while sitting among rows of crops.
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Today it is working once more, watering Abosh's melon and cucumber crops.
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Some farmers say they are still waiting for payments for 2014 crops.
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As with antibiotics in farm animals, azoles are used widely on crops.
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When farmers buy fake seeds, their crops fail, and they go hungry.
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Crops that can survive higher levels of water salinity are being introduced.
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Now farmers are turning to alternative species to help pollinate their crops.
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Even the rain turned brackish, sending panicked farmers scrambling to rescue crops.
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Now growers are turning to other bee species to help their crops.
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Plantain, banana and coffee crops were the hardest hit, Mr. Flores said.
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The timing could not be worse for farmers preparing to plant crops.
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Those prices, coupled with poor crops, were too high for some retailers.
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Rihanna's lingerie brand, Savage X Fenty, carries lavender whips and riding crops.
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Because landowners are planting more grass, there are fewer jobs maintaining crops.
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Another option lies in growing crops that can be burned for fuel.
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Mr. Duque has supported a return to aerial spraying of coca crops.
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The term "ticking time bomb" crops up in much of the communication.
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Now, it is making it hard for them to sow new crops.
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After tilling, they will plant wheat and rapeseed, the main winter crops.
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That should allow them to plant new crops, like their Canadian counterparts.
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The Jacksons have also begun analyzing their crops with increasingly sensitive tools.
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Meteorological data about weather and floods would help farmers manage their crops.
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Glyphosate was drawn into the bitter public debate over genetically engineered crops.
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Out of necessity, Israel has honed desert agriculture to yield bountiful crops.
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"For some crops, production might no longer be possible," the scientists wrote.
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But the crops are also attractive to a parasitic fungus called Escovopsis.
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Some of those, devastatingly enough, were testing crops' resilience to climate change.
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He had decided to grow commercial crops and chose baby salad greens.
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The farmers also perceived impacts of these environmental changes on their crops.
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Farmers spray the weed killer on crops genetically modified to resist it.
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"The problem was that it was coming from food crops," he said.
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The hail in particular was notorious for wrecking buildings, cars, and crops.
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Like an actual farm, with animals and crops that you tend to?
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To support their families, women worked at home, often raising cash crops.
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Prices for crops like soybeans have dropped, threatening profits as harvest approaches.
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Market attention also was turning to South American crops now being grown.
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Insects. Specifically, bugs infected with engineered viruses capable of gene-editing crops.
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Sheep graze among the cover crops, leaving behind fertilizer for the soil.
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They descend on towns and villages, plundering crops and rampaging through homes.
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"Crops, animals and infrastructure have all taken a substantial loss," he said.
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They've dubbed the location Bird System, and they've started growing crops there.
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Over the last few months, natural disasters have damaged other signature crops.
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Many of its crops are still farmed in traditional, not industrial, ways.
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Agriculture could suffer as extreme heat and drought start to wilt crops.
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Once the crops are located, officers seize them and they are destroyed.
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ADM and its rivals make money buying, selling, storing and processing crops.
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Livestock were dying of hunger and thirst while crops dried and withered.
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Poor growing weather, including a heatwave and lack of rain, has damaged crops in France, Germany and the Baltic Sea countries, while a shortage of animal feed is also looming after damage to maize (corn) crops and grass.
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It's what we now call regenerative organic farming and it's back-to-basics: Instead of using excessive amounts of fertilizers in vast single-crop fields, farmers can diversify and rotate crops, compost, plant cover crops and reduce tillage.
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The national government has more recently been trying to support rural incomes by steeply raising minimum support prices for summer-sown crops – prices at which the government says it is prepared to buy the crops from the farmers.
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Since the 1990s, the USDA has regulated which genetically modified crops can head to market, not because of fears of harm to human health but because of fear that crops with foreign DNA could accidentally cause environmental damage.
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US forces would try to encourage impoverished Afghan farmers to grow other crops, but there are only so many crops that grow well in their soil and climate, and nothing comes close to the profit margin of poppies.
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Drug-resistant pathogens have flourished because of overuse and misuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs used in humans, animals and crops, as well as the spread of residues from these medicines in the soil, crops and water.
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On the other hand, the 2011 and 2012 winter wheat crops were planted amid some of the worst drought conditions ever and initial prospects did not seem bright, but both crops churned out above-average yields (reut.rs/2g32ziG).
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China, which has spent billions of dollars researching GMO crops, has already embraced the technology for cotton but has not yet permitted the cultivation of any biotech food crops amid fears from some consumers over perceived health risks.
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Examples of transgenic crops include non-browning apples, disease-resistant papaya, and rice fortified with vitamin A, though most of the GE crops actually being grown and sold today are herbicide- or pest-resistant corn, soy, and canola.
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"They didn't want us to have the water to grow crops for food," said Joshua Moore, who obtained a water permit in 2012 to irrigate about 72 acres near Ginnie Springs where he grows watermelon and other crops.
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Many crops like soy, corn, cotton, and canola are now genetically modified to be resistant to the chemical glyphosate (also known as Roundup), letting farmers spray their fields more easily to kill the weeds while protecting the crops.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Grain crops in the European Union have avoided major damage so far this winter amid relatively mild weather, shifting market attention toward spring crops after rain prevented some autumn sowing in countries like Germany and Poland.
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Turn Fruits and Vegetables from "Specialty Crops" into Heartland Crops: One of the reasons the diet of Crete was so high in leafy greens and other vegetables is that Cretan food culture evolved in a spare natural environment.
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"While recognizing the inherent difficulty of detecting subtle or long-term effects on health or the environment, the study committee found no substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between current commercially available genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops, nor did it find conclusive cause-and-effect evidence of environmental problems from the GE crops," the Academies said in a statement.
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Below are some of the drought-tolerant crops and methods farmers across the world are using to combat drought: Staple food crops like sorghum, cassava, sweet potato, pearl millet, cowpea and groundnut are naturally more drought-tolerant than maize.
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The study examined the three types of land use that define modern agriculture: land used for growing crops, land used for perennial forage crops such as hay and grain that could be used to feed livestock, and grazing land.
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"The only way we have confidence that farmers can grow legal crops is if they can get those crops to market," Buffett told farmers during a visit last month with Duque to La Gabarra, a rural outpost in Tibu.
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Some crops will do better in the hotter, drier climate than others, but we can't choose which crops those will be—and, although there will be losses and gains on both sides, they will by no means be equal.
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She said that came after drought hit crops in parts of the key producing provinces of Shandong and Hebei during the growing stage, while heavy rains damaged crops during harvest in May and June in Henan and Anhui provinces.
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Both the Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI) in Dar es Salaam and the National Crops Resources Research Institute in Kampala already gather samples, in an effort to identify the strains of virus and to help farmers plant resistant crops.
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While it's too early to predict the full effects, many fruit and vegetable crops could experience a lower yield this year and decreased seed production, which would impact next year's crops as well, according to pollination experts and entomologists.
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Nearly two-thirds of farmers in India buy tractors via bank loans and a waiver by two states on loans to farmers whose crops have been hit by poor weather for crops will make them eligible for fresh borrowing.
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A resulting rash of illegal spraying that year damaged 42,000 acres of crops in Missouri, among the hardest hit areas, as well as swaths of crops in nine other states, according to an August 2016 advisory from the EPA.
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They include refraining from tilling, or turning, the soil; mixing crops together rather than growing large fields of just one type; planting trees and shrubs near or among crops; and leaving stalks and other cuttings on fields to decay.
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Beijing has also sought to promote soybeans along with other higher value cash crops such as rapeseed, peanuts and vegetables, while reducing planting of staple grains like corn, wheat and rice due to surplus production of low quality crops.
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