Sentence examples for before crops from inspiring English sources

It's always a thin time before crops ripen, but with this winter's coffee harvest down 50% or more on normal, for the second year running, hunger, malnutrition and debt are new curses for hundreds of thousands.

Land Must Rest Three Years The first hurdle is the requirement that no chemical insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodent-killers, fumigants, growth regulators, bactericides, or fertilizers be used on the land for three years before crops can be considered organic.

But while herbicides often had to be used before crops emerged from the ground, glyphosate can be sprayed later in the growing season because it won't damage the resistant crops.

In those cases, farmers could starve to death before crops will adapt.

Nevertheless the few early sedentary sites with good evidence, such as Senuwar (from 2500 BC), suggest that there was a reliance on rice, probably cultivation, before crops from elsewhere were introduced (Saraswat 2004; discussions in Fuller 2006a, b, 2011).

However, this also means that wet season is a time for food shortages before crops reach their full maturity.

Preplant herbicides may be applied to the soil or to weeds before crop planting.

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The FEM strain field calculations have been performed before cropping the model data.

The results of the physical and chemical analysis of the potted soil before cropping are presented in Table 1.

Glyphosate was sprayed at 2 l ha−1 to control weeds before crop emergence, starting from 2007 with DER+ and TER+.