Until the 1930s most of the crop was sold fresh.

The primary purpose of ploughing is to turn over the upper layer of the soil, bringing fresh nutrients to the surface, while burying weeds, the remains of previous crops, and both crop and weed seeds, allowing them to break down.

:" Current crop yields can only sustain the world's population at subsistence levels, … while nonrenewable energy resources and fresh water supplies are dwindling, and greenhouse gases and other pollutants increase.

Some researchers have suggested that water conservation efforts should be primarily directed at farmers, in light of the fact that crop irrigation accounts for 70 % of the world's fresh water use.

Post-harvest treatment largely determines final quality, whether a crop is sold for fresh consumption, or used as an ingredient in a processed food product.

In January 2005, he announced he was stepping aside as executive director, citing the need for a younger crop of activists to take over the organization, with a fresh perspective and new ideas.

The fruit of Myrica rubra is an economically important crop in China, sold fresh, dried, canned, for juice, and for alcoholic beverages.

It has one of the 36 crop storage facilities of the province. Its major crops are coconut, rice, corn, timber and both fresh and sea-water fish.

Farmers made loaves of bread from the fresh wheat crop.

Still a quarter-mile away, the fresh clap of guns only served to increase his speed.

With their batteries on Shell Hill taking withering fire from the British guns, their attacks rebuffed at all points, and lacking fresh infantry, the Russians began to withdraw.

At this crisis a fresh battalion of the Prussian XI corps arrived by the road from Surburg to Gunstett and attacked the French on one flank whilst the guns swept the other.

Yucateco forces rallied, aided by fresh guns, money, and troops from Mexico, and pushed back the Maya from more than half of the state.

With the switch of much of the Russian artillery to support Barclay de Tolly, the French were able to use their own guns to support a fresh attack at about 2: 00 PM on Baggovut by the brigades of Claparède and Vedel, supported by Gazan on their left.

One classic gun fu move consists of reloading two pistols simultaneously by releasing the empty magazines, pointing the guns to the ground, dropping two fresh magazines out of one's jacket sleeves, or strapped to one's legs, into the guns, and then carrying on shooting.

Five fresh regiments joined in June, increasing its report of June 20 to 27, 474 " present and absent ", of whom 18, 428 were reported " present for duty, equipped "; this included eight batteries of light artillery, of 40 guns.

The positions of the 11th Infantry Division were mainly attacked by the 35, 000-strong 8th Army with their 112th Rifle Corps, two fresh Tank Regiments, the 1680 assault guns deployed in nine artillery regiments and 150 armoured vehicles.

This connection was clarified by Smith and Smith ( 1922 ), who showed that saline extracts of fresh bovine pituitary glands could re-activate the atrophied thyroids of hypophysectomised tadpoles.

fresh scars showed that the door had been prized open.

A series of fresh depositions were sent in against her, and in June 1679 it was decided that she must stand her trial ; but she was protected by the king, who in this instance showed unusual chivalry and earned her gratitude.

To hide the evidence and create a cover story the brothers dipped Joseph's coat in fresh goat's blood and showed it to Jacob, saying he had been killed by the wolves of Canaan.

In one study he showed an increase in lead levels from 0. 3 to 1400 nanograms per gram in certain canned fish compared with fresh, whilst the official laboratory had reported an increase of 400 to 700.

This poses a big problem for fresh graduates, considering as well that some companies use graduate interns just to save money, making them work for 6 to 12 months without giving them a decent remuneration, without offering them proper training / formation, and without hiring them after the internship even if they showed to be productive, fast-learning and trustworthy.

Neither Sun Yat-Sen nor the rest of the KMT showed any public mourning, as the clash over Ching-Ling was still fresh in the public memory.

904s showed remarkable durability ; they " almost always " finished, and at Reims in 1964, a customer car fresh from Stuttgart, driven to the track, went on to win without the need for any spares at all.

While the fresh, joyful experimentation of Spain's “ Silver Age ” writers had disappeared, Cela, Laforet, and Delibes at least showed a renewed commitment to a kind of writing that first, was connected to Spain's material reality, and second, would stretch itself aesthetically in its attempts to capture the experience.

It was also consistent with the fact that samples she took at home had extremely high levels of contamination, while samples taken in " fresh " jars at the plant and at Los Alamos showed much lower contamination.

Eddie Irvine, fresh off a podium finish at the Italian GP, showed promise for Jaguar by posting the second best time on Friday, just ahead of the two McLarens, as Williams struggled to get in the top 10.

Having considered fresh medical evidence, the Court of Appeal ordered a retrial on the basis that the new evidence showed an arguable case of diminished responsibility in English law.

" The Rotten Tomatoes review aggregator showed, among 29 " top " reviewers, 9 " fresh " and 20 " rotten " reviews.

He was appointed as one of the judges in the trial of René of Alençon, and showed such zeal in the discharge of his functions that Louis XI rewarded him by fresh gifts.

And they owned hundreds of theaters in cities and towns across America, theaters that showed their films and that were always in need of fresh material.

Damn it, he thought bitterly, picking up his shirt and staring at the fresh bullet hole in the sleeve.

At the same time he started walking the streets, peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls, storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like, how they moved.

Turn off at any one of the marked picnic areas ( gasoline companies have touring service bureaus that issue booklets on national parks to tell you where you have barbecue facilities ) and -- with soft drinks cooled from morning loading up, hamburger, buns, an array of relishes, and fresh fruit -- your lunch is 75% cheaper than at a restaurant, and 100% more fun.

Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.

As far as I am concerned there is continuous piling up of evidence that the creative fresh ideas which are needed in the world are going to be found by educated women unafraid to break traditions.

Still others sprang up late in the century to meet conditions which arose from fresh stages of the revolutionary age.

The flow of fresh water into the sea from approximately two-hundred rivers and the introduction of salt from the South builds up a gradient of salinity in the Baltic Sea.

The French and Bavarians, however, were almost as disordered as their opponents, and they too were in need of inspiration from their commander, the Elector, who was seen – " ... riding up and down, and inspiring his men with fresh courage.

The company partnered up with Drew because " she emulates the iconic image of CoverGirl with her fresh, natural beauty and energetic yet authentic spirit " said Esi Eggleston Bracey, Vice President and General Manager of CoverGirl Cosmetics North America.

In particular, early Aborigines are thought to have been fire-stick farmers using fire regularly and persistently to drive game, open up dense thickets of vegetation, and create fresh green regrowth for both humans and game animals to eat.

The spread of Protestantism cost it six or seven provinces and several hundreds of convents, but the discovery of the New World opened up a fresh field of activity.

It has been argued that without this property natural bodies of water would freeze, in some cases permanently, from the bottom up, resulting in a loss of bottom-dependent animal and plant life in fresh and sea water.

After Jonah got up, fresh and well, God told him to go back and preach at his land.

A US Army Special Forces operator, fresh from three weeks of combat, then gave up his bed so that the wounded Lindh could sleep there.

After this the painting stays for a long time up to centuries in fresh and brilliant colors.

Without the 24 hour dredging, the Mouth would silt up and close, cutting the supply of fresh sea-water into the Coorong, which would then warm up, stagnate and die.

In the Kamakura era, a common meal was made up of a bowl of rice, some dried fish, a serving of miso, and a fresh vegetable.

The Turks stayed in Otranto and its surrounding areas for nearly a year, but after Mehmed II's death on 3 May 1481, plans for penetrating deeper into the Italian peninsula with fresh new reinforcements were given up on and cancelled and the remaining Ottoman troops sailed back to the east of the Adriatic Sea.

In the liver hepatocytes, glycogen can compose up to eight percent of the fresh weight ( 100 – 120 g in an adult ) soon after a meal.

*" As soon as the Engine has performed this task, ( which will be equal to the travelling from Liverpool to Manchester ,) there shall be a fresh supply of fuel and water delivered to her ; and, as soon as she can be got ready to set out again, she shall go up to the Starting Post, and make ten trips more, which will be equal to the journey from Manchester back again to Liverpool.

French Creoles ( white Trinidadian elites descended from the original French settlers ) were being marginalised economically by large English business concerns who were buying up sugar plantations, and this gave them a fresh avenue of economic development.

The water traveled down the Sacramento and washed into the Pacific ; the influx of fresh water was such that it confused thousands of anadromous fish to begin migrating up the river, thinking that the river had risen because of late-autumn storms.

Among those that breed in salt water, some are equally at home in fresh and salt water up to about one third the concentration of seawater, whereas others must acclimatise themselves to the saltiness.