Visualizing the Highs and Lows of the Lake Mead Reservoir Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Irrigation at Todhia
Arable Farm in Saudi Arabia Water vapor in afternoon clouds over the Amazon Permafrost on the northern Siberian Coast Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) 2015: Olympic Efforts to Measure Olympic Mountain Snow
Sleeping four people in two bedrooms, one of which is a double with an en - suite shower room, this semi-detached cottage is on a working
arable farm in the countryside near Mauchlin...
She argued that Letts was set to give a «paean of praise to his beloved editor» and said that Dacre was firmly in the elite camp as he not only owns a grouse moor, but a large
arable farm in Sussex «for which he gets huge amounts of EU funding».
The following two years were spent farming a 2000 acre
arable farm in Cambridgeshire.
Not exact matches
The need to produce more agricultural products with less water and
arable land will tempt a modernizing China to engage
in crash programs of high tech
farming that will prove radically unsustainable.
G.J.H.M. and Timmermans, Dr. B.G.H. (2009) The NDICEA model: a supporting tool for nitrogen management
in arable farming.
In this International Year of Family
Farming, farmers» leaders from every
arable continent have clearly stated that the focus must be on the vast majority of the worlds farmers, small holder family
farms rather than large scale agribusiness.
Soil organic carbon (SOC)
in arable organic
farming depends on inputs
in crop residues, green manure, catch crops and animal manure.
In a European context, the labour input is higher on organic
arable and mixed
farms, while organic dairy
farms use the same amount of labour, or less, than comparable conventional
farms.
Governor Ambode also urged prospective investors to take advantage of the wetland environment as well as a 1,500 hectares reserve of tropical hard woods to invest
in water hyacinth recycling, fisheries and fish
farm estate,
arable crop estates, rice processing mill, livestock resources, forestry, agricultural equipment and human capacity development
in Agriculture.
Yet
farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more
arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life
in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.
A. Ester and his colleagues at the Research Station for
Arable Farming and Field Production of Vegetables
in Lelystad, the Netherlands, devised experiments to determine the effect of (E)- beta - farnesene on aphids.
Furthermore, the
arable land used for
farming dropped by one quarter over the 56 - year period, and investment
in heavy
farm equipment and other capital expenditures decreased by 12 percent.
Abundant natural resources and
arable land suggest that Pickering originated as a
farming community until the Norman Conquest
in the eleventh century when a castle and church were built, around which the town grew.
... biodiversity can be greatly enhanced on solar
farms compared to
arable farm land, encouraging bumblebees and butterflies
in particular to thrive.
We identified as most promising measures: the promotion of organic inputs on
arable land instead of grassland, the introduction of perennials (grasses, trees) on
arable set - aside land for conservation or biofuel purposes, to promote organic
farming, to raise the water table
in farmed peatland, and — with restrictions — zero tillage or conservation tillage.
Or the greatest contiguous stretch of
arable farm land
in the world (which conveniently happens to be adjacent to those navigable rivers I mentioned.
The natural variation that has led us out of the Little Ice Age has a bit of frosting on the cake by land use; and, part of that land use has resulted
in a change
in vegetation and soil CO2 loss so that we see a rise
in CO2 and the CO2 continues to rise without a temperature accompaniment (piano player went to take a leak), as the land use has all but gobbled up most of the
arable land North of 30N and we are starting to see low till
farming and some soil conservation just beginning when the soil will again take up the CO2, and the GMO's will increase yields, then CO2 will start coming down on its own and we can go to bed listening to Ave Maria to address another global crisis to get the populous all scared begging governments to tell us much ado about... nothing.
The drainage of moors, which has been practiced for centuries so as to gain
arable land for
farming and livestock, is
in this respect a big ecological problem.
And without a demographic transition, a planet of 9 or 11 or even 14 billion people scraping a bare existence from the land is a planet
in which virtually every plot of
arable land will be converted to low - intensity
farming.
The amount of crops produced by the setup
in the desert of Qatar is comparable to commercial
farms in more
arable regions.