Sentences with phrase «growing wheat and corn»

Much of Canada, for example, does not have the optimum type of soil for growing wheat and corn.

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For decades, the Matlack clan grew wheat, corn, barley, and oats, as well as alfalfa to feed the livestock.

The fourth - generation farmer grows corn and wheat on his 10,000 acres and says tracking progress is extremely important to the farming community, and tech solutions are simplifying the job.

That's five to 10 times as much as what our farmers in the Midwest are currently making for growing GMO wheat, corn and soy.

After participating in the Y Combinator tech accelerator — FarmLogs was the first farming - focused startup ever accepted into the program — the duo started marketing their data science tools to farmers growing row crops such as corn, wheat and soybeans.

Part of the grass family, barley grows in 100 countries and is one of the most commonly used cereal grains after wheat, corn, and rice.

It's funny because you always hear about how bad GMO soy, corn and wheat are for us (which they are) but those crops are mainly grown to feed the animals.

The bacteria that creates xantham gum is often grown on a substrate of corn (problem for many people), and sometimes grown on wheat!

The HDC distillation process starts with grain (corn and wheat) grown in Eastern Washington on family farms like the Scrupps» Farm in Odessa.

It was able to grow between their usual wheat, barley, corn and rice crops.

We couldn't find flour tortillas for months and assumed that — since wheat isn't grown in this area — corn was going to be it.

As gluten allergies reach a global high caused by the biggest crop grown in the world (wheat) and GMO infestation puts a dent in the usage of the world's second crop, corn, food companies are scrambling to utilize the world's third largest crop: rice.

Conversely, much more of the prairie lands have become the fertile fields on which we grow our cereal crops of corn, barley and wheat on.

As part of an initiative launched in Washington DC earlier this month, researchers in 12 countries have started to hunt for varieties of the top five staple crops — rice, wheat, corn, cassava and beans — that might grow better in poor soils, as well as providing added trace nutrients for the people who eat them.

Researchers at private agricultural firms tend to focus on creating better varieties of widely - grown, high - value crops, such as wheat and corn.

is a fast - growing weed with a tiny genome that is much easier to study than the massive genomes of key crops like wheat and corn.

The mustard cress Arabidopsis thaliana is a fast - growing weed with a tiny genome that is much easier to study than the massive genomes of key crops like wheat and corn.

Worse still is when agribusiness and geneticists change the seeds of grasses, with their genetic manipulations converting, for example, 4 - and - a-half-foot tall traditional wheat into 18 - inch tall high - yield semidwarf strains that now comprise 99 % of all wheat grown worldwide, or insert various genes for herbicide resistance, as in genetically modified corn.

Unlike modern grains such as wheat, corn, and rice, ancient grains have never been processed through hybridization or genetic modification; they're grown just as they were thousands — if not millions — of years ago.

Add to this the fact that crops like corn, alfalfa, wheat and soy are now being used as animal feed so much of the land is being used to grow food for animals.

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Part of the grass family, barley grows in 100 countries and is one of the most commonly used cereal grains after wheat, corn, and rice.

The bacteria that creates xantham gum is often grown on a substrate of corn (problem for many people), and sometimes grown on wheat!

Agricultural markets including corn, soybeans, wheat, and oats, will see volatile price action during planting and growing seasons.

Evanger's Dog & Cat Food's Grain Free Whitefish and Sweet Potato Dry Dog Food is a USA - made grain - free formula that uses fresh, USA - farm - grown, human - grade meat as its first ingredient and does not include corn, wheat or soy.

It is traditionally an agricultural area, growing wheat, maize, buckwheat and other corn, vegetables, and fruit, but tourism is beginning to develop, which makes it an excellent value for Canadian travellers.

Rice, corn, wheat, etc., they all need specific and different amounts of rain and temperatures to grow well.

According to the USDA's latest data, by 2010 - 11, no - till farming had grown to the point where roughly 40 percent of the corn, soybean, wheat, and cotton grown per year in the U.S. used either no - till or a half - step technique called strip - tilling.

A longer growing season means new crops can be grown — say corn and soy, instead of just wheat.

The heat would also cause staple crops to suffer dramatic yield losses across the globe (it is possible that Indian wheat and U.S. corn could plummet by as much as 60 percent), this at a time when demand will be surging due to population growth and a growing demand for meat.

Crop ecologists have a rule of thumb that each 1 - degree - Celsius rise in temperature above the norm during the growing season lowers wheat, rice, and corn yields by 10 percent.

Organic farming can compete effectively in growing corn, soybeans, wheat, barley and other grains, Pimentel said, but it might not be as favorable for growing such crops as grapes, apples, cherries and potatoes, which have greater pest problems.

These charts represent the main American corn, soybean, spring and winter wheat growing areas.

Their findings suggest a rule of thumb that a 1 - degree - Celsius rise in temperature above the norm during the growing season lowers wheat, rice, and corn yields by 10 percent.

Brazil and Argentina have an extended frost - free growing season that supports extensive multicropping, often wheat or corn with soybeans.

«The tripling of world wheat, rice, and corn prices between mid-2006 and mid-2008 signaled our growing vulnerability to food shortages,» says Brown.

So long as the null hypothesis remains that wheat, corn, rice, and soybeans do not grow well in snow then I have no problem with the null hypothesis being that human activity is causing warming.

Dave Springer says: November 3, 2011 at 12:31 pm So long as the null hypothesis remains that wheat, corn, rice, and soybeans do not grow well in snow then I have no problem with the null hypothesis being that human activity is causing warming.

Indiana About Blog I grow corn, soybeans, popcorn, and wheat with my father and grandfather in NW Indiana.