Sentence examples for grain stalks from inspiring English sources

A curved knife used for cutting grain stalks at harvest time.

My wife decided to go as Ceres, the earth goddess; she made herself a tunic and wore a garland of dried grain stalks and carried a basket of fruit.

Greater (P ≤ 0.05) whole-plant, grain, and stalk DM yields were observed with stay-green hybrid.

Projected whole-plant, grain, and stalk digestible OM yield was greater (P ≤ 0.05) with stay-green than the traditional senescent cultivar.

The invention of artificial nitrogen fertilizer, followed by Green Revolution crops genetically bred to produce much more grain per stalk, meant that rather than die of famine, people lived to beget more people, who in turn begat even more.

Even with larger applications of fertilizer to increase the number of grains on each stalk, dwarf wheat could hold up grain, while the stalks of taller varieties broke.

When cereal farmers harvest their wheat, barley, oat or rice, they separate the grain and chaff from the stalk.

How to spot them Winter stubble - where stumps of grain and other stalks are left in the ground when crops are cut - are a favourite feeding place.

We passed a group of women cutting and thrashing rice to separate the grain from the stalks before arriving at a meeting spot beneath a cluster of banana trees.

The header clipped the heads of grain from the stalks and elevated them into a header barge, a wagon with one low side over which the cut material could be pitched out with forks onto a stack.

Many of his priestly functions under the Shinto religion revolved around rice-growing and included rice products such as sake (rice wine) and mochi (rice cakes), as well as the actual grain and its stalks.