And Mother Nature has really challenged us this growing season -- moisture, drought, whatever.
The reason the 2011 wines are so interesting is the unique weather pattern the growing season experienced.
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Farmers can adjust to earlier planting times, perhaps avoiding some extreme temperatures during the sensitive flowering period, and lengthening the growing season.
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The sheets turn into water and carbon when the growing season ends.
And he said you could always tell when Eric would show up in Nashville, just after growing season was over in the mountains.
Sugar production in Brazil has also been much better than expected, while China has generally had a good growing season, Mr Walton adds.
Anyone moving to a new house and garden should allow a growing season to pass, seeing what comes up before planting anything new.
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Monsanto claimed that the seeds could only be used for one growing season, meaning their offspring could not be saved and replanted without compensation.
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With each new growing season comes a new crop of backpackers, misfits, outlaws, asylum seekers, and former gang bangers in search of a decent wage.
It comes just as farmers should be planting their crops for the main growing season, and it is happening in the most fertile part of the country.
Turns out the irrigated desert terrain, high altitude and resulting cool nights lengthen the growing season and create a more acid, but balanced, grape suited for sparkling wine.
As the growing season progresses from the tender lettuces of early summer to the woody root vegetables of autumn, cooking methods and holding points should adapt, says Ms. Welsh.
Many people have gone hungry in the past few months thanks to a poor harvest: instead of falling evenly through the 2004-05 growing season, the rains came all at once, mostly early on.
The vines need a long, dry growing season for the grapes to ripen fully and for the roots to burrow deep and extract the mineral elements that add to the structure and flavor of the wines.
With less snow cover and a longer growing season, these non-migratory reindeer have taken advantage of the increased plant abundance, with the result that reindeer populations and their ability to reproduce are up, while mortality is down.
John Lowe, chairman of Barrack Lane allotment group (BLAG), said that along with have a much larger area of land, the group share whatever they produce based on the amount of time they put in throughout the growing season.
In the past decade, Costa Rica went from producing 2.3 million bags of coffee each growing season to 1.5 million bags, and the number of acres cultivated with coffee dropped from 247, 000 to 212, 000 or less over that time, said Ronald Peters, the president of the Costa Rican Coffee Institute.
McIlroy enhanced his growing reputation last season, becoming world No. 1 with victory at the PGA Tour's Honda Classic at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in March before winning a second major at Kiawah Island, host of the 2012 PGA Championship in August.
The bad news is that the competition for one of the four Champions League spots in England seems to be growing more intense each season.
With pressure to remain in the Premier League growing for Sunderland each season, Quinn admitted expenditure has been required in order to preserve their top-flight status.
In fact, as viewership declined for each of its broadcast rivals in the face of growing options this past season, CBS--home to juggernauts The Mentalist, NCIS and the CSI franchise--posted an 11% increase in total viewers, and a 3% gain in the advertiser-beloved 18- to 49-year-old demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Conversely, regular season ratings are growing in the NBA based on this examination of Nielsen data by Sports Business Journal in February 2012.
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The fastest growing category of sales this holiday season is digital content and subscriptions, which is up 29% year-over-year.
As I look at all this data and what I see as the growing norm, it looks like this shopping season may end up with very similar results to a year ago.
It seems that global preseason tours, driven by the need to boast revenue and satisfy the growing demand of an international fan base, shows no sign of ending soon even if jet-lagged players maybe a growing sight on the opening day of the European season.
But with a growing cadre of quality original series on cable, this season has proved particularly noteworthy.
If a crop or plant is having a bad season and needs pesticide, the community will stop growing it and go without.
While NFL attendance was steady last season (the total in the regular season was up slightly), there's growing concern among teams that in the age of plasma televisions and rising ticket prices, there's a bleak outlook for in-game attendance.
For Arsenal the signs are growing that they can make a real challenge for the title this season, but Wolves are set to face a battle to stay in the top flight.
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