Sentence examples for crop trials from inspiring English sources

Opponents, claiming it will cause widespread environmental damage, have ensured that GM crop trials in Britain have been destroyed.

Their activities – invading farms and ripping up GM crop trials – have sent crop development costs soaring so that only major companies can now afford them.

Using data from crop trials risks exaggerating the problem, because the plants in such trials are usually well fertilised unlike most normal maize planted in Africa.

The first crop to be grown will be the Bayer maize which did well in three-year crop trials, being less damaging to the environment than conventional maize doused with powerful herbicides.

However, there is not yet a standardized pipeline from exploratory laboratory testing to crop trials, and bringing transgenic products to market remains a considerable barrier.

Anti-GM protestors have sabotaged crop trials in Britain in recent years by digging up fields, but a peaceful demonstration was held in May at the Rothamsted Research Institute in Hertfordshire, where genetically-modified wheat is being grown.

Fish oil grown on the farm has come a step closer following promising results from a genetically modified crop trial.

Recent polling suggests public hostility towards GM crops may have eased, and while the latest crop trial - of a variety of GM wheat that's been engineered to resist aphids - has re-ignited the controversy, attempts to organise a day of action to de-contaminate the countryside failed to attract enough protesters to force the issue.

Eight farms in Northern New York participated in on-farm double cropping trials from 2011 to 2013.

Here, we collected data on 272 arable cropping systems from one Spanish and six French regions, from farm surveys, the Biovigilance-Flore network, expert opinion, cropping system trials, crop advisors and scientists.

We are also told that the field scale trials of GM "assessed their impact on the environment" - but there is no mention of the important fact that the results showed that most of the crops trialled had even more negative effects on farmland wildlife than the industrial crops they were compared to.