News tagged with growing season

Tree rings may underestimate climate response to volcanic eruptions: study

Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

ASU, Stanford examine implications of bioenergy crops

A team of researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and Carnegie Institution for Science has found that converting large swaths of land to bioenergy crops could have a wide range of effects ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Planting depth's effect on container-grown trees

Many landscape trees are started in-ground, then sold as bare-root ''liners'' to producers who plant them in large containers to grow. To minimize wind damage and to facilitate transport from potting areas ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early-season strawberry tested in high elevation conditions

In response to increased awareness generated by the expanding local foods movement, demand for fresh strawberries has increased throughout the United States. The fresh market strawberry industry in the U.S. flourishes in ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study of storm generation could improve rainfall prediction in West Africa

A new study of how storms are generated could improve rainfall prediction in dry regions of Africa, where drought and short growing seasons are common.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study maps global 'hotspots' of climate-induced food insecurity

A new study has matched future climate change "hotspots" with regions already suffering chronic food problems to identify highly-vulnerable populations, chiefly in Africa and South Asia, but potentially in China and Latin ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Will global climate change enhance boreal forest growth?

With an increasingly warmer climate, there is a trend for springs to arrive earlier and summers to be hotter. Since spring and summer are the prime growing seasons for plants—when flowers bloom and trees ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Phosphorus runoff can be slowed by changing farming practices, researchers say

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two recent studies by Iowa State University researchers show that phosphorus runoff into Iowa's rivers, streams and lakes can be slowed by farmers changing how they plant and fertilize their ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Climate may keep beautiful killer plant in check

purple loosestrife - has been heading north since it was first introduced from Europe to the eastern seaboard 150 years ago. This exotic invader chokes out native species and has dramatically altered wetland habitats in North ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lost water of the Napa Valley vineyards

Getting the most out of every drop of water is a high priority for grape growers in the southern Napa Valley, where summers are hot and dry and vines have to be irrigated to make it through the growing season. But Stanford ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

UW-Madison entomologist helps farmers deal with tricky crop pest

(PhysOrg.com) -- Historically, crop rotation has worked to keep the western corn rootworm in check in Wisconsin.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0