Sentences with phrase «commodity crops»

Up for renewal this year, the bill currently gives $ 4.9 billion annually in automatic payments to farmers of commodity crops, driving down the price of corn and corn - based products.

Through the 20th century, farming in the region shifted dramatically away from growing fruits and vegetables and towards producing commodity crops, which are primarily used in processed foods and for animal feed.

She started her own business, processing commodity crops and training entrepreneurs in food - processing skills.

The program would also bring much needed encouragement to farmers, including subsidies, if necessary, to grow staples instead of commodity crops.

«It isn't practical to grow commodity crops like corn in a building nor does it make economic sense to grow fruit - bearing trees inside.

Four additional carbon offset methodologies are currently in ACR's approval process for publication in 2013 including California and Mid-South modules for Emission Reductions in Rice Production, a modular approach to Grazing Land and Livestock Management in beef and dairy production, a methodology for Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands to commodity crop production, and a methodology for quantifying emissions reductions from Carbon Capture and Storage in Oil and Gas Reservoirs.

In the United States and in other countries, there is a great deal of government support for commodity crop (including wheat, corn, and soy) production through the use of government subsidies.

This adoption by contracted producers is not unexpected, since a handful of powerful pharmaceutical and agrichemical multinational corporations like Bayer and Monsanto, have gained a monopolistic control over the major commodity crop seed stocks, making available to farmers only their highly promoted, patented varieties of GE seeds.

Current research suggests that the lion's share of these emissions come from just a few countries (mostly China, India, the U.S. and parts of Western Europe) and from just a few large commodity crops (including corn, wheat, rice and a few others).

Farms grew to enormous sizes, becoming focused on a few commodity crops and increasingly dependent on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

That is, they've operated for the last half - century on products built on a foundation of cheap, unhealthy, subsidized commodity crops like soybeans and corn.

The industrialization of agriculture, resulting in the excessive irrigation of critical waterways to produce commodity crops such as cotton, sugar and rice: this has led to widespread ecological damage of key river systems as well as the salinization of millions of hectares of productive farmland

Upland cotton is one of South Carolina's foundational commodity crops.

China, India and developing nations around the world are stepping up their agricultural output of both grains and livestock, and commodity crop prices are at record highs, encouraging farmers to fertilize heavily in search of higher yields.

This award, made possible by the generosity of Pioneer Hi - Bred International, recognizes and encourages innovative graduate research and innovation in areas of plant biology that relate to important commodity crops.

Corn — one of the main commodity crops used to feed pigs bound for the supermarket — is threatened by not only climate - related drought and flooding, but also by the corn earworm, and damage from the pest is projected to worsen in the coming decades, thanks to warmer winters.

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that 12.8 billion tons of nitrogen fertilizer costing more than $ 800 million were added to fields that produce corn, cotton, grains and other commodity crops.

The Agriculture chapter examines potential impacts of projected climate change on commodity crops, livestock, pollinators, disease, pests, and weeds.

But aren't subsidies almost primarily aimed at commodity crops, NOT the fruits and veggies and pastured meat products that, from my experience, represent nearly the entirety of most farm markets?

The U.S. does both as well, but on a relatively small scale compared to subsidies for conventional commodity crops.

We need to move beyond this antiquated Farm Bill that spends billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize environmentally destructive commodity crops that feed factory farms and junk food companies.

Require reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from factory farms and commodity crop production.

A huge proportion of commodity crops grown by U.S. farmers are genetically engineered: 97 % of the nation's sugar beets, 93 % of the soybeans, 90 % of the cotton and 90 % of the feed corn for animals, according to the 2013 figures from the Department of Agriculture.

There's plenty of protein and necessary amino acids in plants, including the world's four major commodity crops — rice, maize, wheat and soy.

Models that link yields of the four largest commodity crops to weather indicate that global maize and wheat production declined by 3.8 % and 5.5 %, respectively, compared to a counterfactual without climate trends....

Government support for commodity crops has effectively made large - scale farmers ignore other, more healthy, crops; in addition, a great deal of the industrial crops grown in the US are used for animal feed in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), a.k.a. factory farms.

Overall, our research shows that California faces significant climate risks to its commodity crop output if we stay on our current greenhouse gas emissions pathway, but that these risks are extremely crop - and location - specific.

Today this landscape, tended by a very few farmers utilizing all that technology has on offer, signify an evanescent prosperity precariously balanced on an extremely limited number of commodity crops.

In only 100 years, coffee had established itself as a commodity crop throughout the world.

Though there are only several GM crops that are widely available, they are commodity crops that often get further processed into a variety of ingredients.

«Organic rice has a higher dollar value than conventional, but it is still a commodity crop and will fetch a lower price than other specialty crops,» says Greg.

Developing a sustainable business model has played an integral role at Massa Organics and has been key in allowing them to successfully sell what is traditionally a commodity crop more like a specialty crop.

In fact, the toughest part of it was, and remains, the cost, since — unlike the commodity crops that go into junk food, and are used in animal agribusiness — fruits and vegetables aren't government subsidized.

Finding that organic soybeans and corn imports exhibit strong growth provides further evidence of the needs for transition of domestic acres to organic production of these commodity crops.

GM agriculture today is overwhelmingly just four commodity crops: soy, maize, canola and cotton account for 99 %.

[i] What's more, genetically engineered soybeans reportedly account for almost 60 % of the global soybean area — an increasingly dominant share of one of the world's most important food and commodity crops.

It became the state capital in 1846, representing the shift of power to the south - central area with the growth of cotton as a commodity crop of the Black Belt and the rise of Mobile as a mercantile port on the Gulf Coast.