Sentence examples for treated seed from inspiring English sources

The treated seed potatoes have uniform sprout emergence.

It would have to devour around 45 grams of treated seed before it was likely to die of poisoning a prodigious amount even for such a greedy bird.Which goes to show two things.

And by six weeks after sowing they were as likely to be found on treated as on untreated fields.Dr McKay and her team found that fonofos residues on treated seed fell at an average rate of 2% a day.

So poisoning is less likely if the birds have learnt to wait a week or two before eating the treated seed.Indeed, where pesticides are concerned, pigeons seem to err on the side of caution.

1 1 Geranium + peaa October March (125 days) 100 kg 1 1 Geranium + radish October January (55 days) 7.5 kg 1 1 aRhizobium culture treated seed; Fertilizer application N P K = 100 60 60 in sole geranium and intercrops, 1/3 N, Full P and K at planting; 1/3 N at last week of December; and 1/3 N after intercrops harvest.

Plants grown from a treated seed often need no further insecticidal treatment, unlike many competing chemicals.

Some of the treated seeds had been mistakenly turned into flour, and then bread.

All the treated seeds came up; none of the untreated ones did.

It is alarmist scaremongering from the people profiting from treated seeds".

Cotton seeds coated with a systemic called phorate have been in use for some time in California, and in 1959 twenty-five farm laborers in the San Joaquin Valley, who had handled bags of treated seeds, were seized with sudden illness.

Certainly, during the early days of germination, the treated seeds were absorbing nearly 50% more water (and thus nutrients) than the untreated ones.