Sentences with phrase «conventional wheat crops»
Most of today's conventional wheat crops are also treated with insecticides, particularly glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup.
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While much of conventional farming is doing more harm than good to the climate, wheat may be an important crop for reduc...
Because the USDA houses the National School Lunch Program, and the agency's main job is to sell highly subsidized conventional crops (like corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat) and farmed foods (like dairy and beef), behemoths like Chartwells wind - up pushing cheap, low - quality surplus food into our schools.
The best - performing organic crop was winter wheat, which yielded just 10 % less than the conventional harvest.
Typical examples of widespread genetic variability in conventional crops are rice (Batista and others 2008) and wheat (Baudo and others 2006).
«We need a whole new agriculture,» Wilson says, one that replaces conventional crops like wheat.
But for delivering sheer calories, especially in our staple crops of wheat, rice, maize, soybeans and so on, conventional farms have the advantage right now.