Sentence examples for old crop from inspiring English sources

Genetic modification offers plant breeders the tools to make old crop plants do spectacular new things.

OLD CROP VEGETABLES LOW Poultry and Butter Increase Slightly -- Eggs 10 Cents a Dozen Lower Than a Week Ago.

Some granitic gneisses, which are more than 3 billion years old, crop out in the northern Baltic Shield, the Ukrainian Massif, and northwestern Scotland.

With the Taliban broken and no replacement then in place during the planting season last autumn, Afghan farmers rushed back to their old crop.

The second trial examined the effect of cultivating the old crop row only compared with cultivating the whole field on seedbed parameters for planting sugarcane (Feluga near Tully and Bundaberg, Qld, Australia).

Ug99 — so called because it was first seen in Uganda in 1999 — is a new variety of an old crop disease called "stem rust", which has already spread on the wind from Africa to Iran.

So the revival and conservation of old crops, breeds and production methods need not be backward-looking.

In recent times that corn vareity, like many old crops, has been threatened with extinction because fewer farmers were growing it and fewer people were buying it.

Near Dior, I saw a slim woman in her forties dressed in black leggings, flats, a black silk slip of a skirt with lace at the hem and a funny old cropped jacket in faded black cotton.

Farmers say rainfall totals are five to seven inches below normal — a withering deficit — and many have not plowed under their old crops to plant new rows of wheat, corn and milo.

Its nutritious grasses, however, had supported immense herds of bison, and the settlers, after pushing old crops well beyond their limits, gave way to the cattlemen with their picturesque ranch houses, their cow towns, and their cowboys.