Sentences with phrase «alternative crop»

Uncertainty about longrun demand for hemp products and the potential for oversupply discounts the prospects for hemp as an economically viable alternative crop for American farmers.»

Soil physical properties and tomato yield and quality in alternative cropping systems.

She handed out two passages, one about Eliza Scidmore, a writer and explorer whose idea it was to plant cherry blossom trees around the nation's capital, and another about George Washington Carver, an African - American botanist born into slavery who taught poor farmers how to grow alternative crops to cotton.

«A lot of the economic support for alternative crops doesn't really exist yet,» Page says.

List of Alternative Crops and Enterprises for Small Farm Diversification..

At the same time, farmers, mostly in the Midwest, were seeking alternative crops.

It is unlikely that crops grown specifically for the production of cellulosic biofuels will be developed in significant quantities as technology gains and bioethanol prices are unlikely to favour production over alternative crops.

«Lentils are grown as an alternative crop to wheat in alternative growing seasons.

It's remained in regular use in its native countries, but was largely unknown in North America until researcher Wayne Coates began studying chia as an alternative crop for farmers in northern Argentina about 29 years ago.

The trial program, a 3 - year - old initiative of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is designed to give farmers the tools for growing an alternative crop successfully, particularly in the Southern Tier, where many farms are faltering.

To see if nonfood plants could be a source of a biofuel the way corn is, researchers followed six alternative crops and farming systems in so - called marginal lands over 20 years, including poplar trees and alfalfa.

Midwestern farmers looking for an alternative crop reacted to a growing demand for puppies, resulting in the development of the first commercial puppy business.

As a result, sorghum has even been suggested as an alternative crop for wheat and maize farmers facing falling yields due to climate change.

AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural Economics Agricultural Economics Report No. 402 «Industrial Hemp as an Alternative Crop in North Dakota» By David G. Kraenzel; Tim Petry; Bill Nelson; Marshall J. Anderson; Dustin Mathern; Robert Todd North Dakota State University, Dept. of Agricultural Economics.

The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, representing New Mexico, along with Colorado and Wyoming, has a long - standing policy urging Congress and the USDA to research industrial hemp as an alternative crop.

1) Increasing financial incentives to assist farmers with up - front costs associated with investing in new cropping systems or alternative crops, while also putting in place disincentives for monoculture production (e.g., conservation compliance); and

A Concurrent Resolution requesting the department of Com merce and Housing to form a task force to investigate and research the viability of nonpsychoactive industrial hemp as an alternative crop.