Sentences with phrase «as crop fertilizer»

Animals are often fed antibiotics at low doses for disease prevention and growth promotion, and those antibiotics are transferred to you via meat, and even through the animal manure that is used as crop fertilizer.

«We've found that when we put liquid feces in a biodigestor, the waste is broken down rapidly, and we can use the resulting liquid as a crop fertilizer, which is less acidic than fresh manure,» Benny says.

Not exact matches

Today, the company operates an online marketplace that helps farmers lock in fair prices on seeds, fertilizers and other costly «inputs» they use to grow healthy crops, as well as sell their crops to buyers.

The company also began selling dry fertilizer as a service to assist farmers in growing better crops, which remains a strong part of its business today.

SFC found that when the animals are fed healthy, manufactured feeds, they produce highly nutritive waste, which is then turned into compost and used as fertilizer for the crops.

On top of all that, pulse crops are sustainable, with low water and carbon footprints, and they act as natural fertilizers, enriching whatever soil they grow in.

Other factors also contribute to pest outbreaks such as excessive fertilizer which creates luxuriant crops for the hoppers to feed on and continuous rice cropping that doesn't allow for a break in the food supply of the pests.

These variables include practices such as row spacing, type of tillage, use and type of cover crop, amount of compost and amount of nitrogen applied as fertilizer.

Unlike arabica coffee, which can (and is, in much of Mexico) grown as an agroforestry crop under mixed shade, robusta is grown in the sun and will require the clearing of valuable lowland forests, no doubt substantial amounts of fertilizer and pesticides, and cause collateral environmental damage.

Soil building practices such as crop rotations, inter-cropping, symbiotic associations, cover crops, organic fertilizers and minimum tillage are central to organic practices.

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and severe impacts on ecosystem services — which refer to nature's support of wildlife habitat, crop pollination, soil health and other benefits — have not only accompanied conventional farming systems, but have often extended well beyond the boundaries of their fields, such as fertilizer runoff into rivers.

Just by changing the way we farm, by stopping deep tilling, mono - cropping, and chemical fertilizer use — the Climate Collaborative estimates regenerative carbon farming practices could mitigate as much as 4 billion to 6 billion tons of CO2 equivalents a year or 10 percent to 12 percent of global human - caused emissions.

The answer is important because sludge bacteria are much more likely to thrive and spread their resistance genes once the sludge is discharged into rivers (in treated wastewater) and onto crop fields (as slurried fertilizer).

Synthetic fertilizer is available as a variety of commercial products, with different nitrogen - release times, whereas manure and pulse crops need to be broken down by microbial decomposition before nitrogen becomes available.

In a paper released for discussion in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Crutzen calculated that 3 to 5 percent of the nitrogen in the fertilizers used to raise crops for biofuels could end up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gas.

Pea crops require very little nitrogen fertilizer as a result, which reduces energy cost and greenhouse emissions.

Ninety - five percent of the sludge is applied to farm fields as soil conditioner and crop fertilizer, leading to the release from a single facility of nearly 1 metric ton of TCC into the environment each year, the researchers calculate.

Crops such as corn and soybeans flourish when nitrogen - containing fertilizer is applied to Midwestern fields, but many farmers routinely apply more fertilizer than their crops can takCrops such as corn and soybeans flourish when nitrogen - containing fertilizer is applied to Midwestern fields, but many farmers routinely apply more fertilizer than their crops can takcrops can take up.

Growing corn continuously under conventional tillage and with high inputs of water and fertilizer may seem outmoded, but this management system is «not uncommon,» as demand for corn grain and crop residues grow, Blanco says.

Heat might be expected to harm a crop (or force farms to move poleward), but added carbon dioxide, which all plants use to make organic matter, might act as a fertilizer.

Phosphorus is used every day in farming as a fertilizer — it was elemental (yes, pun intended) in the agricultural revolution that boosted crop yields.

In fall 2011, Burger and UC Davis hydrologist Jan Hopmans started a three - year experiment, comparing how different cover crops, which are seasonally rotated with cash crops such as tomatoes, can be used to improve soil quality and reduce fertilizer use.

With the hope that they can be sprayed on crops much in the same way as a fertilizer.

Although fertilizer derived from human waste is prohibited for organic crops, it can be used for conventional crops and for other applications, such as maintaining golf courses.

It entails relatively simple strategies, such as government subsidies for fertilizers and better crop varieties, so that farmers pay only 25 percent of the actual costs.

The steps are as follows: improve crop yields, consume less meat, reduce food waste, stop expanding into rainforests, and use fertilizer and water more efficiently.

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Nitrogen fertilizer applied to crops lingers in the soil and leaks out as nitrate for decades towards groundwater — «much longer than previously thought,» scientists in France and at the University of Calgary say in a new study.

But the biofuel crop has already come in for criticism both because it is displacing cereals in other places where it is grown, such as Kenya and Tanzania, as well as requiring fertilizers to get good oil yields.

Whereas conventional farms tend to use chemical pesticides and artificial fertilizer, organic farms employ cover crops, mulching and mechanical methods for pest control, and composts and manure as fertilizers.

On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»

Some farmers and scientists have looked for ways to replace the chemicals with biological sources of fertilizer such as cover crops that can be plowed under or used as mulch to provide nutrients.

fertilizer Nitrogen, phosphorus and other plant nutrients added to soil, water or foliage to boost crop growth or to replenish nutrients that were lost earlier as they were used by plant roots or leaves.

Resource - conserving cropping practices from WHEAT, such as more targeted use of nitrogen fertilizers or sowing wheat into untilled soils and crop residues, can raise wheat farmers» incomes while curbing greenhouse gas emissions, if widely adopted, he added.

Climeworks, which will begin operations at a facility near Zurich, Switzerland, plans to compress the CO2 it captures and use it as fertilizer to grow crops in greenhouses.

Farmers now plant cover crops, such as oats or barley, that use up fertilizer that once washed away into rivers.

But the chief beneficiary is the large corporate farm and the cartels that buy their products — chiefly cotton, corn and soy — America's three main crops, which are usually grown as monocultures on large farms, requiring extensive use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides.

The earlier conception of the role of fertilizers as being that of making «two blades of grass grow where only one grew before» has given way to the more modern understanding of their function as being to make a crop yield $ 2 where only one was yielded before.

While the application of chemistry to crop production is still less than 100 years old, the fertilizer industry as now constituted is quite old as years are reckoned in chemical industry.

The company produces salt (primarily used by cities for deicing roads but has many consumer and industrial uses as well), specialty potash (a premium fertilizer that improves the quality, yield, and shelf life of high - value fruit, vegetable, and tree nut crops), micronutrients (essential minerals that maximize plant yields), and magnesium chloride (used in numerous ways including roadway deicing, dust control, and as plant nutrients for wheat crops).

Again, studies show no increase in yields under identical growth conditions, and the strains suffer from the same limitations as all monoculture crops do — in fact, these genetically engineered strains often call for high applications of fertilizer, water and herbicides (which, after all, is why they were engineered to be herbicide resistant).

Good to see the development and commercialization of natural forms of fertilizer as fertilizer is so important to food production and getting rid of some of the negative impacts of conventional fertilizers that are mass produced while getting more production out of crops is a double benefit that should help drive this product's use

Other studies have shown that coating nitrogen fertilizers with various materials, such as polyolefins, can slow the release of nitrogen nutrients so that they are more synchronous with the requirements of the growing crop.

Better efficiencies have been achieved in multiple ways, ranging from the use of precision agriculture technology to optimally timed fertilizer additions and crop demand, to comparatively low - tech solutions such as the use of cover crops that reduce nutrient losses.

As a natural fertilizer, it accelerates the growth of crops.

95 The case for crop - based biofuels was further undermined when a team led by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize — winning chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, concluded that emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer used to grow crops such as corn and rapeseed for biofuel production can negate any net reductions of CO2 emissions from replacing fossil fuels with biofuels, thus making biofuels a threat to climate stability.

These actions mostly address sectoral interests, such as agricultural practices (e.g., altering sowing times, crop cultivars and species, and irrigation and fertilizer control), public health measures for heat - related risks (e.g., early warning systems and air pollution control), disaster risk reduction (e.g., early warning systems), and water resources (e.g., supply and demand management).

These changes can influence the price of crops and agricultural inputs such as fertilizer, for example, as well as the abundance of ecosystem and agricultural pests and the abundance and range of fish stocks.

I don't endorse bio-fuels, however, there may be some geographical areas that can grow only certain types of crops such as natural grasses that don't need a lot of water, fertilizer, etc. to grow, (e.g. switchgrass) that maybe someday could provide a cheap and environmentally friendly alternative energy source.

For example, agricultural carbon removal solutions such as restorative farming approaches hold the potential for increasing crop resilience, reducing water and fertilizer needs, and even enhancing yields.