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High yielding variety seeds are known for their resistance to insects and diseases and ability to produce high yields. These seeds are superior in quality and promote abundant and healthy crop production. The high-yielding seeds exhibit resilience against floods and droughts, resulting in better-quality yields. [5]
The seeds are very small, about a millimeter in length, and a thousand grains weigh approximately 0.3 g (0.011 oz). [10] They can have a color from a white to a deep reddish brown. [7] Teff is similar to millet and quinoa in cooking, but the seed is much smaller and cooks faster, thus using less fuel. [11]
Hand sowing or (planting) is the process of casting handfuls of seed over prepared ground: broadcasting, that is, broadcast seeding (from which the technological term is derived). Usually, a drag or harrow is employed to incorporate the seed into the soil. Though labor-intensive for any but small areas, this method is still used in some ...
Subsistence agriculture generally features: small capital/finance requirements, mixed cropping, limited use of agrochemicals (e.g. pesticides and fertilizer), unimproved varieties of crops and animals, little or no surplus yield for sale, use of crude/traditional tools (e.g. hoes, machetes, and cutlasses), mainly the production of crops, small ...
Ferry seed catalog for 1900. In 1856, Milo T. Gardner, Dexter M. Ferry, and Eber F. Church [1] organized a small seed-growing company, M.T. Gardner & Company [2] (also known as Gardner, Ferry, and Church) in Detroit, Michigan. The first year the company did $6,000 in business. [3]
The SSE publishes a list of members' seeds annually in the Seed Savers Yearbook, complete with a description of the crop and its known history. [4] It is headquartered at the 890-acre (3.6 km 2) Heritage Farm, [1] located six miles from Decorah, Iowa. [4] Heritage Farm was originally purchased in 1986. [5]
Foundation corn is the parent seed from which hybrids are made. Established in 1937, in Williamsburg, Iowa by Roland Holden, Holden was the largest independent producer of foundation seed in America before being acquired by Monsanto Company in 1997. [1] [2] Monsanto was subsequently acquired by Bayer in 2018, and Holden is now part of Bayer ...
Broadcast seeding works best for plants that do not require singular spacing or that are more easily thinned later. [1] After broadcasting, seed is often lightly buried with some type of raking action, often done using vertical tillage tools. Utilizing these tools increases the success rate of germination by increasing seed-to-soil contact. [1]