Sentences with phrase «grass land as»

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Pick Point has landed accounts with about 2,800 clubs through the grass - roots promotion, says Newcomb, who now counts 14,000 clubs as regular customers.
When he saw that the grass grew as high as the belly of his saddle horse, he knew he had discovered land that was worth homesteading.
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«AMP is not as productive as feedlots, based on yields, but the AMP grazing system produced considerably greater amounts of beef on a land basis as compared to continuous grazing, showing that improved management can increase the output of grass - fed beef,» he said.
The studies do find some benefit from biofuels but only when planted on agricultural land too dry or degraded for food production or significant tree or plant growth and only when derived from native plants, such as a mix of prairie grasses in the U.S. Midwest.
It's bitter and not a preferred food to livestock, and it's still a problem in cereal and grass seed production, as well as pastures and grazing land.
But when the land becomes parched and grass scarce, the populations get pushed into smaller and smaller areas, becoming more packed as desirable pasture diminishes, he says.
The verisimilitude in the CG [computer generated] effects and the attention to little things — like the way the rotor from the vehicle moves the grass as it comes in for a landing — are constantly bombarding you with subliminal stimuli that are telling you that what you're seeing is real, even though you know you're sitting in a movie theater.
The open land at this altitude in the Rocky Mountains is covered with grasses and a rich array of flowering plants, known as forbs.
In contrast, the grasses and other flowers and plants that grow naturally when such lands are left fallow — species such as goldenrod, frost aster, and couch grass, among others — can deliver roughly the same amount of biofuel energy per hectare per year if fertilized, yet also reducing CO2 by more than twice as much as corn.
Another human - caused culprit is biomass burning, as herders burn land to stimulate grass growth, and farmers burn the landscape to convert terrain into farming land and to get rid of unwanted biomass after the harvest season.
About a high protein diet, I'm not sure it is really essential, as the largest land based animals are grass eaters.
Butch plants rye grass every winter and it is so neat to watch the cardinals as they land on the bright green grass with their brilliant red plumage!Mikasa's «Fruit Rapture» pattern always makes for a colorful table.
General Palmer was responsible for giving the land for the cemetery and Prospect Lake, solely created as a reservoir to water the grass and -LSB-...]
The Abarth deals with that OK, but when it lands, as John Hayman reports from the sidelines, «it practically leaps back into the air», lurching uncomfortably towards the grass.
Naturally, the full spate of Land Rover's off - road technical wizardry is included as well; including and especially the marque's Terrain Response system with its Grass, Gravel, Snow, Mud, Ruts, and Sand settings.
The autumn harvest was already in and the land surrounding the village was yellow with the stubble of rice stalks, but some fields stood as if wasted, with grass sprouting in the dried — out paddy, already turning brown.
George is transfixed by this outpouring, by the strange splatty noise as it lands on the grass, by the way things have suddenly slipped out of control.
Then, in 2013, JP and her husband purchased land in Grass Valley, Calif., and CAPE was able to move into a new phase of their compassionate plan — to serve as a home for injured, disabled and older animals in need of special care.
This is important both for the reef and the land, they cultivate the sea grass which acts as a nursery for many fish species but also provide coastal protection from storms and tsunamis.
The cane farm provides the perfect backdrop for a horse ride or ATV tour as it's an impressive mixture of the tall sugar cane grasses and native Australian bush land with a little bit of tropical rainforest vegetation with streams and the huge Billabong.
They act as they did in Super Mario Bros., and their first appearance is in World 1 - 1 of the Grass Land.
Collect various types of Mononoke and select your team members depending on each challenge such as cleaning the polluted air or growing grass on desolated land.
Even sounds as simple as walking changed between walking on ice or walking on leafy fall grass, and my addiction to needless, unending jumping was even more enchanting when my landings sounded different based on the season.
Her work showed that polar bears, while best known for their life at sea or on sea ice pursuing seals, have been able, at least in some circumstances, to gain significant nutrition on land as well, scarfing down geese and goose eggs, grasses and other fare when sea ice is in retreat.
How grasslands sequester carbon: grasses tend to keep root systems in proportion with top growth, so when livestock graze on high grasses then that land is allowed to rest, the roots slough off the excess growth and their carbon becomes available to microbes as food, polymerizing it into humus.
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.
Mostly they depend on the grazing lands change over time as they become unsuitable by the invasion of predators or large herds, drought, or over-growth of grasses.
In the end, will there be rising pressure to settle that arm of land as the ice continues to pull back and grass grows in Antarctica?
The most common feedstocks will likely be agricultural wastes, such as rice straw, or natural grasses such as switchgrass, a variety of prairie grass that is often planted on soil bank land to replenish the soil's fertility.
Since organic grass - land and fodder production is often equally produc - tive as with conventional systems there are little in - direct land use change effects.
Andrew Leakey is part of a five - year, $ 12 million study of grasses useful for biofuels that can grow with as little land, fertilizer, and water as possible.
Because of the continuing climatic change, experts say some areas that are burning this year may never return as forest — they are more likely to grow back as heat - tolerant grass or shrub lands, storing far less carbon than the forests they replace.
«It increases along with grass and as tree pollen decreases, indicating the clearing of land for homes and farms and the demand for wood for heating and building.»
The letter explains why large - scale industrial production of transport fuels and other energy from plants such as corn, sugar cane, oilseeds, trees, grasses, or so - called agricultural and woodland waste threatens forests, biodiversity, food sovereignty, community - based land rights and will worsen climate change.
Ecosystem changes to pastoral lands, such as a shift from grass to woodland savannas as levels of carbon dioxide increase, could reduce food for grazing cattle.
Native perennial grasses can be used as food, according to The Land Institute.
Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC), a state - initiative championed by Gov. Brad Henry, secured land to enable the planting of more than 1,100 acres of production - scale demonstration fields for cellulosic energy crops, such as switch grass and sorghum to contribute to the United States» bioenergy effort.
The wide variety of acts that could be evidence of an intention to occupy land is emphasised, varying from obvious practices such as «enclosing, cultivating, mining, building upon, maintaining, and warning trespassers of land» to acts such as «cutting trees and grass, fishing in tracts of water, and even perambulation» (para 39).
Whether Claimants entitled to have land treated as set - aside land for purpose of entitlement to compensation if in calendar year or if in cropping year immediately preceding claims they had sown, cut & used for silage, grass.
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