Sentences with phrase «by conventional farming»

A subsequent review of the Rodale work by David Pimentel also was cited, in which he stated: - «In the United States, organic farming systems use just 63 percent of the energy required by conventional farming systems,..»

Non-organic pumpkin seeds are grown by conventional farming methods, which could include the use of insecticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals.

Also, negative externalities caused by conventional farming are not accounted for in the price of food.

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The second spot, created by Los Angeles agency The Ant Farm, is more conventional and features a past Black Ops character essentially echoing North's fears.

The AquAdvantage salmon made by AquaBounty Technologies, which some have dubbed a «Frankenfish,» contains a gene that allows it to grow faster than wild or conventional farm - raised Atlantic salmon.

And by growing with Tower Garden specifically, restaurants save up to 90 percent more land and water compared to conventional farms.

The Argentinian delegation listens as Dr. Emmanuel Omondi, Director of the Farming Systems Trial (FST) at Rodale Institute, explains details of the side - by - side comparison of organic and conventional agricultural systems.

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.

It is often touted by environmentalists as a more sustainable alternative to conventional farming.

By Brooke Infusino Nightingale Farms grows, packs and ships more than 3 million pounds of fresh organic and conventional produce annually from its state - of - the - art farm in LaSalette, Ontario.

A study by the British Trust for Ornithology (1995) compared breeding and over-wintering of birds on 44 organic and conventional farms.

Since organic farms are mostly mixed farms, integrating animal husbandry with crop production, using vast and diverse rotations, intercrops and green cover crops, and maintaining soil fertility by cultivating nitrogen fixing legumes, they display a higher diversity of domesticated species than conventional farms.

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.

«The actual metrics we're interested in fall into three main categories: The highest - level metrics address the outcomes we want to see in the world: amount of farmed animal suffering prevented, plant - based and clean meats» market shares, number of conventional meat meals offset by plant - based or clean meat, etc..

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.

Created by a Minnesota - based company called Recombinetics, the hornless cattle are the first of a new wave of farmed animals developed using techniques that, unlike conventional genetic engineering, involve no «foreign» DNA (see «How to tweak a genome «-RRB-.

And Cornell University researcher David Pimentel found that organic farms use 63 percent of the energy used by same - size conventional farms, which rely on large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer produced synthetically with large amounts of energy.

Research at the Rodale Institute found that «organic farming helps combat global warming by capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide and incorporating it into the soil, whereas conventional farming exacerbates the greenhouse effect by producing a net release of carbon into the atmosphere.»

Conventional efforts, like no - till farming and cover crops, have tried to address nutrient runoff by slowing its movement from soils to waterways.

According to a study conducted by The Organic Center, organically farmed fruits and vegetables can increase antioxidant levels by nearly 30 percent compared with produce grown on conventional farms.

In a recent study, 8 a team of researchers led by University of Iowa's Tara Smith found MRSA in 8.5 percent of pigs on conventional farms and no pigs on antibiotic - free farms.

They depict Knight, who is played with a visionary's fervent stare by Matthew McConaughey, as a man who reached his mid-20s with a conventional life: Marriage to Serena (Keri Russell), management of a small farm with no slaves, cooperation with the Confederates who drafted him into service.

Staying Current with Farm Animal Welfare Issues: A Review of the Science and Ethics Presented by Barry Kipperman, DVM, DACVIM and Michael Blackwell, DVM, MPH Explore conventional and modern definitions of animal welfare and societal changes that are driving legislation affecting farm animFarm Animal Welfare Issues: A Review of the Science and Ethics Presented by Barry Kipperman, DVM, DACVIM and Michael Blackwell, DVM, MPH Explore conventional and modern definitions of animal welfare and societal changes that are driving legislation affecting farm animfarm animals.

By replacing conventional powerplants by wind farms we are continuing those powerplantBy replacing conventional powerplants by wind farms we are continuing those powerplantby wind farms we are continuing those powerplants?

Our studies, which are the longest - running side - by - side studies of conventional and organic farming in the nation, also show that the organic approach does not compromise yield — in fact in drought years it increases it since more carbon in the soil allows it to hold more water.

He suggested that the Watrous farm had two side - by - side fields, one in zero till, the other in conventional till, which could be.used for N20 experiments comparing deep banding under zero till with deep banding under conventional till.

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

If prices can be brought down or stabilised, as Davey argues, by building wind farms and other renewables, why can't they be brought down by building more capacity in conventional energy production?

If you do that, you effectively replaced what you would have consumed from conventional power plants with electricity produced by solar panels (or wind farms).

Wind farms have the life of a parasite because they freeload themselves onto existing grids paid by conventional efficient energy, need subsidies and drain electricity from the grid when it is too cold.

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.

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Recombinant bovine growth hormone, also called rBGH, and recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, are chemically engineered hormones used on many conventional dairy farms to increase a cow's milk production, sometimes by as much as a gallon per day per cow.

The UCS study found that while crop yields of DroughtGard did decrease crop losses by 6 % and would increase overall US corn production by 1 %, conventional crop breeding has been increasing drought tolerance by about 1 % per year for the past 10 years, while this conventional breeding combined with improved farming practices has been able to increase corn production by 1.5 - 2 % annually.

Last week, the open - access journal PLoS ONE published a paper by Andrew Kniss, Steven Savage, and Randa Jabbour measuring the difference in crop yields between organic and conventional farms in the US.