Genetic modification offers plant breeders the tools to make old crop plants do spectacular new things.
With the Taliban broken and no replacement then in place during the planting season last autumn, Afghan farmers rushed back to their old crop.
Some granitic gneisses, which are more than 3 billion years old, crop out in the northern Baltic Shield, the Ukrainian Massif, and northwestern Scotland.
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.
Tank (Mr. Garner) has become a Baptist minister, Hawk (Mr. Jones) gives stomach-turning thrill rides in an old crop duster, and Jerry Mr. Sutherlandd) -- the only team member with a two-syllable name and without a Southwestern twang in his voice -- designs roller coasters and chases women half his age.
Leaving the old crop stalks and roots in place holds retains the soil and its moisture, reducing erosion.
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).
The potato could not be stored from season to season, and certainly not longer than 10 months (Rosen, 1999), which inevitably resulted in a situation in which many of the poorest members of society starved annually in the summer, between the exhaustion of the old crop and the arrival of the new yield (Woodham-Smith, 1964; Clarkson and Crawford, 2001).
For the sake of respiratory health, cover your mouth and nose whenever dust or fine particles are likely to occur, such as when shoveling grain in a near-empty grain bin, raking over old crop stubble or cleaning out stalls of dried manure, etc. Be aware of your state of mind.
