Sentence examples for crop spread from inspiring English sources

Sweet potato was domesticated in the Andean highlands, and researchers recently determined that the crop spread west across Polynesia before Europeans arrived.

One theory has it that the crop spread to the coastal regions of eastern England in the 14th century AD during the reign of Edward III.

The peanut crop spread widely around the world after the Spanish and Portuguese colonization of South America, but the pathogen was largely confined to South America until late 1960s.

After originating and being domesticated in two regions of the New World, giving rise to an Andean and a Mesoamerican genepool, this crop spread to many secondary centers of diversity based on its wide adaptability as a species.

JASON HELVENSTON was at work on his second crop, spreading compost to fertilize the carrots, bok choy, kale and dozens of other vegetables he grows organically on his property in Orlando, Fla., when the trouble began.

The third experiment was designed to model secondary, within-crop spread of phytoplasmas, since the source plants were treated, in an attempt to prevent phytoplasma acquisition.

At their worst, they can damage crops, spread diseases, attack humans and kill livestock.

The cash crops spread in accessible and productive areas at the expense of paddy and forests.

With drug crops spread throughout the overgrown jungles of entire continents, interdiction will never make a serious dent in the drug trade.

Here, though, on this proper working farm, with a beef herd, goats and arable crops spread over some 800 acres, we find a glass-sided walk-in shower, slipper bath, floor-to-ceiling curtains, painted and polished oak furniture.

Ball is farm manager at Kemble Farm in the Cotswolds, where he oversees a larger-than-average milking herd as well as arable crops, spread across 900 hectares outside Cirencester.