The U.S. government says that this year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year.
美国政府称今年的玉米产量应该比去年增长约8﹪。
It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its corn crop this year.
它的后果是：南非持续的干旱——三十年来最严重的干旱——将导致它今年至少四分之一的玉米作物受损。
I was stunned by two things: the size of the crowd and the size of the corn crop.
两件事情令我目瞪口呆：一、人群的规模，二、玉米地的规模。
Yet, the smaller than expected US corn crop could still push wholesale prices higher.
然而，美国玉米产量小于预期，仍可能推高批发价格。
However, they did eat boiled pumpkin, and they produced a type of Fried bread from their corn crop.
但他们却吃了煮南瓜，并用收获的玉米制成了一种油炸面包。
The European corn borer, for example, destroys 40 million tons of the world's corn crop annually, about 7% of the total.
例如，欧洲玉米螟每年毁掉4000万吨玉米，占世界玉米总产量的7%。
Enlarge With nitrogen, the family's corn crop suddenly grew much higher and stronger, and produced full ears and big harvests.
随着氮肥的使用，家里的玉米突然长的又高又壮，颗粒饱满，收获颇丰。
Corn is renewable, but because much of the corn crop is getting diverted toward making ethanol, its prices are rising as well.
玉米本身是可再生的，但由于大量玉米被用于生产乙醇，其价格涨幅也很可观。
And the diversion of a huge chunk of America's corn crop to ethanol production, which has boosted demand for other staples, including rice.
美国把农作物玉米转向生产乙醇产品，同样也加剧了对其他主食的需求，包括大米。
Besides, even if America's entire corn crop were to be devoted to ethanol production, it would still only supply 4% of the country's oil consumption.
此外，即使美国全年生产的玉米投入到了乙醇的生产，这也只能供给全国4%的汽油消耗量。
Mr.Gunjal said the success or failure of the corn crop, as well as the rice crop, would depend mostly on rainfall this spring and summer, not the shortage of rain this winter.
Gunjal先生说，玉米作物以及水稻作物收成的成败与否主要取决于今年春季和夏季的降水，而不是今年冬天雨水不足。
The location tests of different blend ratio between controlled-release urea and conventional urea in wheat-corn crop rotation system in Xinpo Village Zhumadian city are studied.
在驻马店新坡村进行了小麦一玉米轮作制下的控释尿素与普通尿素掺混比例定位试验研究。
When Grain rain comes, stating enough and rainfall is seasonable, be helpful for corn crop can healthy and strong grows, so ancient time has what rain gives birth to 100 cereal to say.
“谷雨”来临时，表示着雨量充足而及时，有利于谷类作物能够茁壮生长，所以古代有“雨生百谷”之说。
Thomas, who lives in southern New Hampshire, began feeding the deer near her home in 2007, when a failure of the acorn crop led her to put out corn for the many wild creatures facing a lean time.
汤玛士生活在新罕布什尔州南部，二零零七年那里的橡子作物歉收，她拿出很多谷物喂给许多面对饥荒的野生动物，从那时开始她在自己家附近喂养野鹿。
In north China plain the most important corn crop is Winter wheat, which together with barley sow at the beginning of autumn, following after reaping summer crops such as sorghum and soy bean.
冬小麦是华北平原最重要的粮食作物，通常是和大麦一起，在秋初继收成夏季作物如高粱、大豆之后播种的。
Each year ten percent of the crop is lost to a pest called corn rootworm.
每年有10%的作物受损于一种叫做玉米根虫的害虫。
When corn came to Europe from Mexico, now they had a much hardier crop that could be grown easily in more northerly climates and the centers of power began to shift accordingly.
当玉米从墨西哥传到欧洲的时候，他们有了一种更耐寒的作物，更容易在更偏北的气候条件下种植，权力的中心也随之转移。
As a result, modern farmers attempting to grow corn in the ancient Maya homelands have faced frequent crop failures, especially in the north.
因此，特别是在北部地区，现代农民试图在古玛雅家园种植玉米却面临歉收。
This and other price shocks were event-driven—drought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S. Corn Belt.
这次以及其他的价格冲击是由苏联的干旱和美国玉米带的作物减产引起的。
But this and other price shocks were event-driven—drought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S. Corn Belt.
但是这次和往常其他的价格冲击是由苏联的干旱和美国玉米带的作物减产引起的。
Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors this year, or 12pc of the global crop.
今年美国收获的玉米将有近三分之一，也就是世界产量的12%，会分流到机动车用乙醇生产中。
Commodity brokers in the Corn Exchange reacted swiftly to news about crop failure in N.America.
谷物交易所的商品经纪人对北美作物歉收的消息做出迅速反应。
As a food crop, corn is also far more damaging to the environment than other crops, such as soybeans, because it USES more pesticides and fertiliser.
作为一种粮食作物，玉米比大豆等其他作物对环境影响更大，因为它需要更多的肥料和杀虫剂。
An important test case may come in the form of a new GM crop, a drought-tolerant corn variety being developed by the Monsanto Company for use in the us.
一个新的转基因作物品种已经接受了一项重要的测试，这是一个耐旱的玉米品种，由美国孟山都公司开发选育，在美国进行种植推广。
Also, the tubers can be left underground for up to three years, so if drought kills a corn or bean crop, the farmer's family can still fend off starvation.
而且，木薯的块茎可以被埋在地下，三年都不会腐烂，如果干旱使玉米或豆类作物绝收，农民们依然可以依靠木薯熬过饥荒。
Corn, another American crop, played a similar role in Italy and Romania.
美洲大陆的另一种庄稼玉米，在意大利和罗马尼亚扮演了类似的角色。
We raise our cows and goats almost entirely on corn stalks, cucumber vines and other crop wastes.
我们用基本上都是用稻杆、黄瓜藤和其他的谷物残余来饲喂我们的牛羊。
Corn was thought to be more resistant to rising temperatures than other crops. But results from crop trials in Africa suggest that climate change could hurt corn (Zea mays) production.
玉米曾经被认为耐高温性强于其它作物。但来自非洲的作物实验结果表明气候变化会威胁玉米(玉米种)的产量。
Corn was thought to be more resistant to rising temperatures than other crops. But results from crop trials in Africa suggest that climate change could hurt corn (Zea mays) production.
玉米曾经被认为耐高温性强于其它作物。但来自非洲的作物实验结果表明气候变化会威胁玉米(玉米种)的产量。
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