Sentences with phrase «conventional farms where»

So it is not surprising that in contrast to conventional farms where manure and slurry are often a waste problem, organic farmers are forced to develop efficient nitrogen management strategies like intercropping, catch cropping, optimal ploughing - in of legume crops or limiting the use of liquid manure to avoid nitrogen losses.

The frequency of rill erosion among agro-ecological farms was 58 percent lower than on conventional farms where 80 percent of conventional plots had up to 78.1 m2 / ha more rill erosion than agro-ecological plots.

Not exact matches

Our GMO - Tested and Glyphosate - Tested open pollinated corn is grown on small family farms with buffer zones, ensuring that the places where the corn is planted is not downwind from any other conventional corn fields that may be using genetically modified seeds.

While these standards make welfare better than conventional farming, «organic» does not guarentee that the meat was produced on a small farm, where animals roamed freely, or that the animals were treated humanely.

But the study went a step further, comparing crop yields on conventional farms to those on organic farms where cover crops were planted and crops were rotated to build soil health.

Just as Rousseau only painted a nature he imagined, Assiff's «Untitled (Conventional)» is taken from Farmville, the farming simulation game where users can create their own alternate reality from the safety and comfort of their home.

Looking forward, I think we will need to deploy different kinds of practices (especially new, mixed approaches that take the best of organic and conventional farming systems) where they are best suited — geographically, economically, socially, etc..

Oh, and while conventional power stations can be built right where the power is needed (in or near major cities), solar and wind farms have to be sited where demand is low or nonexistent, necessitating hundreds of billions of dollars in new transmission lines, transformers and other infrastructure, and the personnel to maintain them..

The study compared a conventional farm that used recommended fertilizer and pesticide applications with an organic animal - based farm (where manure was applied) and an organic legume - based farm (that used a three - year rotation of hairy vetch / corn and rye / soybeans and wheat).