Sentence examples for metres crops from inspiring English sources
The average global temperature, he concluded would rise as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit if the amount of carbon dioxide in the air doubled from its pre-industrial level; that is, heat waves in mid-American latitudes would run as high as 130 deg., the seas would rise several metres, crops would wither in the fields.
Only woody margins influenced soil properties in the first metres of the cropped neighbourhood.
As the slab enters the finishing train (at about 20 metres per minute), a crop-shear cuts the head and tail, and high-pressure steam jets remove the secondary scale formed during rolling.
Napier said camelina cannot cross-pollinate with oil seed rape, a common UK crop, and that there are no wild relatives of camelina at the 300-hectare Rothampsted site, where 200 square metres of the GM crop would be planted for the next four years.
Standing stalks with ragged tops showed where the grain had been bitten off, and an area of crop about 10 metres square had been heavily trampled.
A series of massive earthquakes have struck north-east Japan, unleashing a 10-metre tsunami that swept buildings, vehicles, crops and debris across swaths of farmland.
And about 550bn cubic metres of water is wasted globally in growing crops that never reach the consumer.
On the lower slopes up to 7,000 feet (2,100 metres), the growing season is sufficient for double-cropping.
Roots SAT's system uses coils of water-filled pipes installed at depths of up to 7 metres to either heat or cool the soil around crop roots.
It also happens to be one of the world's leading centres for basic crop research, boasting more than 8000 square metres of greenhouse space, a farm or two, and a brand-new genomics building.
