Sentences with phrase «as crop yields»

Climate change is a huge risk to the long - term supply of safe, high quality ingredients for Nestlé's products as crop yields fall and production areas shift.

As far as crops go, the problem is this: Changes to the hydrological cycle as a result of global warming may be neutral on a 100 - year timescale, as far as crop yields are concerned.

We experience weather and the phenomena it affects, such as crop yields.

Essentially, big agra has hybridized wheat heavily over the last 5 decades to improve things such as crop yield and baking characteristics, but never once thought about the impacts on human health of changing the biochemical structure of wheat.

If temperatures are not kept down then Africa faces a range of devastating threats such as crop yield reductions in places of as much 50 % in some countries by 2020; Increased pressure on water supplies for 70 — 250 million people by 2020 and 350 — 600 million by 2050; The cost of adaptation to sea level rises of at least 5 — 10 % of gross domestic product.

Not exact matches

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

And I mean as the delicious irony of this business, we're worried about what the crop's going to be this year and when it's going to yield and we're already talking about pricing for the spring of» 13.

On the flip side, agriculture - linked funds were again some of the best - performing ETFs this past week, as the commodities markets continued to rally on deteriorating crop yield prospects due to the ongoing droughtlike weather across the U.S. grain belt.

Fears that the current crop of earnings may be as good as it gets and that higher bond yields will sap demand for equities, all...

Fears that the current crop of earnings may be as good as it gets and that higher bond yields will sap demand...

The Great Plains and the Midwestern part of the United States have experienced extremely cold temperatures during the early spring as that is causing some concerns on crop yields as I do think wheat prices could test the $ 5 level possibly in next week's trade.

The spiritual openness of those people 2000 years ago meant that, as in the Parable of the Sower, the message was heard and it grew tall and strong in the hearts of those who heard it, yielding a good crop.

If you want to worry about the climate, worry about colder weather and lower crop yields as the sun remains unusually quiet.

The researchers say their interest was piqued after seeing a study that positioned organic agriculture as less productive than conventional, with lower crop yields.

However, the result was not a true reflection of the company's performance as it actually had a very strong year with cotton crop yields as high as 15 bales per hectare — well above the top 20 per cent of Australian growers.

With the 2014 harvest the Rubired grape crop continues to remains marginally stable as most of these grapes have been planted under long - term contracts and yields remain large enough to be financially viable.

Both Chile and Argentina are reporting lower crop projections, as frost and other weather issues appear to have damaged yield potential in both markets.

As in many other crop species, genetically modified (GM) varieties of sugarcane are forecast to improve profitability by reducing input costs, increasing sucrose yield or introducing novel products.

First known as IRRI's Maximum Yield Experiment, the first crop of the LTCCE was seeded on 24 May 1962.

We carefully select plants that exhibit desirable traits such as high yield, hardiness, and pest - resistance to produce stronger crops.

Technologies that will be presented at the exhibition include Gamaya, which has been designed to improve the efficiency and sustainability of industrial farms, as well as new sorting solutions that have the potential to increase the yield of the maize crop.

In fact, many multiple cropping systems, such as those developed by smallholders and subsistence farmers, even show higher yields in terms of total harvest per unit area.

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

PARIS — Organic farming may yield up to a third less of some crop types, according to a study proposing a hybrid with conventional agriculture as the best way to feed the world without destroying it.

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The study authors looked at wheat — a crop that the Nature paper identified as one that badly lags in yield for organic producers.

Global crop yields were beginning to decline — especially for wheat — raising doubts as to whether production could keep up with population growth.

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OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters)- The most extensive drought in five decades has left corn plants withered and dying, and crop yields in the largest producing states will be much lower than experts have forecast, scouts said on Friday as they completed a U.S. Midwest crop tour.

For example, elementary schools are implementing school gardens that yield enough crops — such as kale, tomatoes, peppers and lettuce — to serve on the salad bar.

The US has long embraced genetic modification as a means of improving the nutritional profile of food, reducing the need for large quantities of pesticide and increasing crop yield.

He explained that the open system farming would be used to grow the crop, adding that improved varieties would be made available to the farmers so as to produce better yield.

There, he studied pollinator interactions and declines throughout Europe and how these declines affect factors such as biodiversity and crop yields.

Genetic engineering has yielded crops which have capabilities beyond those of naturally occuring plants, such as higher yields and disease resistance.

Preliminary results from the five - year study (funded by Monsanto) suggest that new strategies, such as combining multiple chemicals and applying herbicides both before and after weeds emerge, can improve crop yields compared with the typical glyphosate - heavy approach, while slowing the emergence of resistance.

But the greatest drop in smog - forming pollutants — and greatest gains in crop yields — came from policies such as the Clean Power Plan.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

The second objective was to use the evaluated modules to assess the long - term effects of growing winter wheat as a cover crop on water balances and seed cotton yield under irrigated and dryland conditions, Ale said.

The new and improved wheat assembly will help wheat breeders accelerate their crop improvement programmes and researchers to discover genes for key traits such as yield, nutrient use and bread making quality.

The two DSSAT crop modules were evaluated using measured data on soil water and crop yield from four treatments: irrigated cotton without a cover crop, irrigated cotton with winter wheat as a cover crop, dryland cotton without a cover crop, and dryland cotton with a winter wheat cover crop at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Chillicothe from 2011 to 2015.

As the globe continues to spin toward a future with higher temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease if farmers do not adapt to new management or technology practices.

As harvest season gets under way, farmers find that drought - stressed crops are susceptible to toxins and contaminants, further reducing yields

Because organic agriculture produces on average only half the yield of crops per unit of land as conventional farming, any mass conversion to organic would end up using much more land.

Wheat will still grow even if the rainfall season is shortened, but a warmer climate will severely harm crops such as chickpeas, walnuts and peaches in their ability to produce yields.

One of the major problems with biofuels that algae could solve is space, since algae can yield as much as 100 times more fuel per unit area than other so - called «second generation» biofuel crops (e.g. non-food crops or non-food waste parts of food crops).

Such a molecular understanding is needed before researchers can attempt to engineer pyrenoids into crops, which is expected to enhance crop yields by as much as 60 percent.

The new crops which replace the poppy, such as wheat or peas, are not such as will give as good a honey yield.

They also have sustainable yield pledge awards for actions, such as improving water availability or increasing crop productivity, that conserve more or improve lives.

Scientists, consumer groups and bee keepers say the devastating rate of bee deaths is due at least in part to the growing use of pesticides sold by agrichemical companies to boost yields of staple crops such as corn.

They also found that the ancient grain crops did not yield as much as the common bread and durum wheat crops.