Sentences with phrase «u.s. rice crop»

Later, comparing samples of multiple species of rice grown in numerous regions around the world, he found arsenic levels almost universally elevated, including in the U.S. Notably, much of the U.S. rice crop is grown in regions of the South where the soil is contaminated by old arsenic - based pesticides, once used by farmers to protect cotton crops from boll weevils.

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In the U.S. weedy rice is increasingly combatted by growing herbicide resistant crop strains, Olsen says.

As a wild guess, I'd suggest that it has more to do with rice being one of the most subsidized crops in the U.S. (along with corn and soybeans), but that is a (long) post for another day.

Potatoes are the No. 1 vegetable crop in the United States and the fourth most consumed crop in the world, behind rice, wheat and corn, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Current research suggests that the lion's share of these emissions come from just a few countries (mostly China, India, the U.S. and parts of Western Europe) and from just a few large commodity crops (including corn, wheat, rice and a few others).

101, no. 27 (6 July 2004), pp. 9,971 — 75; National Academy of Sciences, «Warmer Evening Temperatures Lower Rice Yields,» press release (Washington, DC: 29 June 2004); U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), «Climate Change: Billions Across the Tropics Face Hunger and Starvation as Big Drop in Crop Yields Forecast,» press release (Nairobi: 8 November 2001); Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts, «Nonlinear Temperature Effects Indicate Severe Damages to U.S. Crop Yields Under Climate Change,» Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.

The Earth Policy Institute has noted that even if the entire U.S. grain crop were converted to ethanol (leaving no domestic crop to make bread, rice, pasta, or feed the animals from which we get meat, milk, and eggs), it would satisfy at most 18 percent of U.S. automotive fuel needs.