Sentences with phrase «by conventional agriculture»

If on the other hand the moderately impacted land used in organic agriculture made it a suitable habitat for several important native species of wildlife that are threatened by conventional agriculture, then perhaps it would be ok to use a little more land for agriculture.

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Plant - based dairy products such as milk continue to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S., with sales in the former category growing as sales in the latter category decline.45 It seems likely that cultured meat products will have similar effects, sometimes replacing plant - based products, but also replacing products of animal agriculture — particularly because they will likely be harder to distinguish by taste and texture than current substitutes.

Nutrient Density Comparison Between Organic and Conventionally Grown Oats By Marisa Wagner and Emmanuel Omondi (Ph.D.) The Farming Systems Trial (FST) at Rodale Institute is America's longest running side - by - side comparison of organic and conventional agriculturBy Marisa Wagner and Emmanuel Omondi (Ph.D.) The Farming Systems Trial (FST) at Rodale Institute is America's longest running side - by - side comparison of organic and conventional agriculturby - side comparison of organic and conventional agriculture.

The US Cattlemen's Association (USCA) hasfiled a petition with the US Department of Agriculture, asking it todifferentiate conventional meat from alternatives by creating a formal definition.

The reproduction rate may be reduced by sublethal long - term effects of synthetic pesticides used in conventional agriculture.

In conventional agriculture, earthworms are affected by the use of harmful pesticides and intensive soil cultivation.

The review of relevant research conducted by Stolze et al. (2000) concludes that under European conditions organic agriculture has beneficial effects on the characteristics of soil organic matter because the soil organic carbon content is higher on organically farmed soils than on conventional ones.

Conventional agriculture in the area uses the water from the rivers and causes further salinization by over-irrigation with already salinated water.

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

Using data collected primarily by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, scientists have compared the environmental impacts of conventional meat production with those of alternative sources of food.

It is the first such study to analyze 40 years of science comparing organic and conventional agriculture across the four goals of sustainability identified by the National Academy of Sciences: productivity, economics, environment, and community well being.

In the meantime, it became conventional wisdom to blame the decline on factors such as conversion of lion habitat for agriculture, disease, and killings by locals upset over lion attacks on people or livestock.

Now, thanks to a new study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we have a true sense of the premium we pay when choosing that organic yogurt or salad over the conventional alternative.

Current prices for conventionally grown foods do not reflect the costs of federal subsidies to conventional agriculture, the cost of contaminated drinking water, loss of wildlife habitat and soil erosion, or the cost of the disposal and clean up of hazardous wastes generated by the manufacturing of pesticides.

By buying organic food, you will also be supporting sustainable methods of land use that result in far less environmental pollution than conventional agriculture, which uses toxic chemicals.

The paper, «Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture,» is by a doctoral student, Verena Seufert, and the geography professor Navin Ramankutty, both of McGill University, and Jonathan Foley, the director of the Institute on the Environment of the University of Minnesota.

The Farming Systems Trial (FST) at Rodale Institute is America's longest running side - by - side comparison of organic and conventional agriculture.

Nutrient Density Comparison Between Organic and Conventionally Grown Oats By Marisa Wagner and Emmanuel Omondi (Ph.D.) The Farming Systems Trial (FST) at Rodale Institute is America's longest running side - by - side comparison of organic and conventional agriculturBy Marisa Wagner and Emmanuel Omondi (Ph.D.) The Farming Systems Trial (FST) at Rodale Institute is America's longest running side - by - side comparison of organic and conventional agriculturby - side comparison of organic and conventional agriculture.

The program «prohibits specific pesticides that have been identified by scientists as high risk but are commonly used in conventional agriculture today.»

Such an arrangement is allowed on all major loan types, too, including conventional loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; FHA loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration; VA loans backed by the Department of Veterans Affairs; and, USDA loans backed the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

But conventional loans — which are not insured by a government agency like the FHA, the Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Department of Agriculture — have gotten more competitive lately.

While many homeowners opt for conventional loans, there are a handful of alternatives, including loans backed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.