Word: seeds
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...seed, Ogunwole battled hard to place, and won his final match against No. 5 Bill Stouffer of Central Michigan by forfeit...
With GPS guidance, Mitchell can dig a small furrow in the land and then pinpoint to within an inch where each seed is placed. With such precision farming, he injects fertilizer right on top of the seeds without ever touching the wheel. The heavy machinery takes the exact path every time it passes through the rows, also allowing him to minimize the amount of land that is compacted--a serious cropping problem. Since installing a GPS three years ago, the Mitchell Farm has seen a 30% to 40% drop in fertilizer costs and an 8% annual increase in yield over...
...carb potato has arrived. Developed by a Dutch seed company, the smooth yellow tuber has 30% fewer carbohydrates and 25% fewer calories than the average Russet Burbank. It's also moister and better tasting, says Chad Hutchinson, a potato expert and assistant professor of horticultural science at the University of Florida. Each year Hutchinson tests some 400 new varieties of spud for Florida farmers but finds, he says, "only a few we get really excited about." This creamy variety, named SunLite, "has risen to the top," says Hutchinson. SunFresh, a Florida growers cooperative, will market the lower-carb potato...
...unused courtyard is, a glowing, moss-covered polycarbonate theatre designed by a professor at the Graduate School of Design. It is, in itself, a powerful and sculptural meditation on the architectural innovations the Carpenter Center has witnessed over the previous 40 years. Perhaps the result of a seed brought by the little bird at Corbusier’s request or an element of the original design incubated beneath the building for the last 40 years, the plastic “egg” is trapped between the machine and the human: designed and output on sophisticated digital fabrication technologies...
Yale, the top seed, will be paired with the fourth-seeded Harvard squad while the second-seeded Tigers will face off against the No. 3 seed Big Red at 7 p.m. tomorrow evening...