News tagged with harvest season
Early defoliation of Great Lakes wine grapes tested
Wine grape production in the Great Lakes Viticultural Region can be a challenging enterprise. Spring frost, winter injury, short and variable growing seasons, and cool, humid growing conditions subject grape ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Time is ripe for wine grapes
CSIRO researchers have discovered a new method growers could use to control when their grapes ripen, without affecting wine quality.
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Winter drought stress can delay flowering, prevent fruit loss in orange crops
Successful mechanical harvesting of perennial fruit crops requires efficient, economical harvesting systems that do not reduce trees' production life or diminish fruit quality. Most of the world's citrus is ...
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Thanksgiving Combines Myths, Traditions and Truths, CU Professor Says
(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the centuries Thanksgiving in America has meant many things to many people. What we consider the traditional Thanksgiving holiday today has been around only a few decades, according ...
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Drought tolerant cowpea can improve crop yield in arid West Africa
Even the highly drought-resistant cowpea (a long type of legume) now has an increasingly difficult time surviving in the Sahel countries where climate change has resulted in shorter and less frequent rainy seasons. Wageningen ...
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Seasonal hunger devastating and under-recognized
Most of the world's acute hunger and undernutrition occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual "hunger season," according to an article published this week in open access journal PLoS Medicine. The hu ...
Jun 30, 2009 |
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