Sentences with phrase «as oilseed»

4-41-01, 02 NDCC; 4-09-01 NDCC 1999): Authorizes the production of industrial hemp; recognizes industrial hemp as an oilseed; requires any person desiring to grow industrial hemp to apply for a license; allows for the supervision of the industrial hemp during its growth and harvest.

There is no doubt that the proposed restriction on the use of these neonicotinoids on nectar - and pollen - rich crops such as oilseed rape will reduce a potentially serious risk to bees.

Oilseed varieties of flax are typically classified as oilseed crops along with soybeans, rapeseed, cottonseed, sunflower seed, and peanuts.

Soybeans, like all legumes, are protein - rich and nourishing, but they also contain a large amount of unsaturated fats, leading to the plant's classification by the Food and Agricultural Organization as an oilseed rather than a pulse.

As oilseed rape faces declining yields and increasing attacks from pest and disease, UK farming needs another break crop to ensure the sustainability of its agriculture and maintain cereal yields.

In January, the European Food Safety Authority in Parma, Italy, Europe's food - chain risk - assessment body, concluded that three commonly used neonicotinoids — clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam — should not be used where they might end up in crops that attract bees, such as oilseed rape and maize.

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What it does: Exports agricultural products such as grains, pulses and oilseeds

Among the most valuable U.S. exports to China are, in descending order, oilseeds and grains, aerospace products and parts, motor vehicles and electronic components such as semiconductors.

If you look at production forecasts for oilseeds — where exports could exceed 3.5 million barrels per day by 2020 — as well as U.S. production in the Bakken — watch this animation to get a feel for how fast that's growing — then there's definitely a market for significant new pipeline capacity.

Oilseed rape with genetically induced resistance to insects has been reported to damage beneficial insects such as honey bees26.

The NutriMill Plus isn't suitable for spices, herbs, oilseeds such as flax, chopped chestnuts, flaked oats or fibrous materials.

That goes for both wild bees that forage on oilseed rape, and those that don't — though populations of known foragers were three times as likely to disappear.

They can also answer questions by referring to information given in earlier applications or to recognised databases containing details of similar experiments, such as exist for experiments with oilseed rape.

Straw from crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape is seen as a potential source of biomass for second generation biofuel production.

Consequently I chose plant biochemistry as my area of study for my PhD, investigating carbon partitioning in oilseed rape embryos at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich.

The goal of the research is to alter oilseeds to produce large amounts of modified oil that can be used as improved biofuels or even industrial and food - related applications.

The Land Institute's work, led by a team of plant breeders and ecologists in multiple partnerships worldwide, is focused on developing perennial grains, pulses and oilseed bearing plants to be grown in ecologically intensified, diverse crop mixtures known as perennial polycultures.

Flaxseeds (Linum usitatissimum), also known as common flax or linseeds, are small oilseeds that originated in the Middle East thousands of years ago.

Also known as Sesamum Indicum, sesame seeds are oilseed crops that have been cultivated over the last 3,500 years.

It is therefore not surprising that flaxseed is the most prominent oilseed studied to date as a functional food, since it is a leading source of α - linolenic acid (52 % of total fatty acids) and of phenolic compounds known as lignans [28].

The patient maintained a high level dietary adherence on the long - term, yet on his birthday, he made a mistake: he has eaten two pieces of commercially available «paleo» cake which contained coconut oil, flour from oilseeds as well as sugar alcohol.

Instead, a $ 20 billion industry has grown up around the cultivation of soybeans as an «oilseed» crop that can be traded alongside of other interchangeable commodities like rapeseed, sunflowerseed, and cottonseed.

This historical trend has given rise to a whole new classification of soybeans as an «oilseed crop» or «oilseed commodity.»

The nonmarine sources of omega - 3s are generally in the form of alpha - linolenic acid (ALA), and can be obtained from flaxseed, walnut and other oilseeds such as soybean or canola.

Our agricultural contracts include grains and oilseeds like corn, soybeans, and soybean oil as well as other products including livestock, dairy, lumber, coffee, and more.

Grown for its versatile fiber and oilseed, which can be used to make rope, paper, building materials, bio-fuels, cosmetics, healthy food and body care products, textiles, plastic composites, and much more hemp was once a paramount crop of Kentucky cultivated in the state as recently as the 1950's, but was permanently banned in 1970 as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

While the oilseed and fiber varieties, or cultivars, of Cannabis sativa are industrial hemp, there are also drug varieties Cannabis sativa, often referred to as strains.

Originally introduced by Representatives Jared Polis (D - CO), Thomas Massie (R - KY) and Earl Blumenauer (D - OR), the amendment allows State Agriculture Departments, colleges and universities to grow hemp, defined as the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, for academic or agricultural research purposes, but it applies only to states where industrial hemp farming is already legal under state law.

As the world's highest yielding oilseed, the crop generates substantially more vegetable oil per acre than soy, canola (rapeseed), or corn, meaning that palm oil can help meet future demand for vegetable oil with less land, a point palm growers are quick to mention in any discussion over the environmental impacts of palm oil.

Although production from oil palms is limited to tropical and subtropical regions, the crop yields much more biodiesel per acre than do temperate - zone oilseeds such as soybeans and rapeseed.

If passed, the bill would remove federal restrictions on the domestic cultivation of industrial hemp, defined as the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis.

Grown for its versatile fiber and oilseed, which can be used to make rope, paper, building materials, bio-fuels, cosmetics, healthy food, body care products, textiles, plastic composites, and much more, hemp was once a paramount crop of Kentucky cultivated in the state as recently as the 1950's, but was permanently banned in 1970 as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

The law classifies hemp as either a fiber or oilseed crop, and must not contain any more than three tenths of one percent THC (the psychoactive chemical in marijuana).

The letter explains why large - scale industrial production of transport fuels and other energy from plants such as corn, sugar cane, oilseeds, trees, grasses, or so - called agricultural and woodland waste threatens forests, biodiversity, food sovereignty, community - based land rights and will worsen climate change.

Back when the bright yellow flowers were still known as Rape or Oilseed rape, Brassica napus produced a bitter oil, unsuitable for human consumption and used mainly to lubricate machines.

Elsewhere, Western Europe, with its mild winters and high - yielding winter wheat, might also be able to double crop more with a summer grain, such as corn, or with a winter oilseed crop.

(09/10/2008) Plunging palm oil prices are increasing its attractiveness as a biofuel feedstock and thereby helping buoy demand for the oilseed, reports Reuters.

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.