Sentences with phrase «corn crop»

With ethanol's demands on corn crops, the increased prices of corn have meant that decreasing farm subsidy payments have been more than double the cost of ethanol subsidies.

Or, best case from the entire corn crop = 3 billion X 4 = 12 billion gallons a year, today.

That is more than the second largest use of corn, as feed for cattle, pigs and chickens, which consumes 36 percent of the annual corn crop.

It now accounts for more than 60 percent of the American corn crop.

High fructose corn syrup — probably from a genetically modified corn crop — is one ingredient that you'll likely find.

This past year, 40 percent of domestic corn crops have gone into gas tanks, even as a rise in global food prices has hurt the poorest families.

The 2022 requirement of 36 billion gallons would consume almost the entire corn crop.

Well, this just in, courtesy of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA): USDA projects the U.S. corn crop for 2012 to reach 14.79 billion bushels, the biggest ever.

Schnoor estimated that up to three - quarters of corn crops in his home state are devoted to ethanol production, stressing Iowa's groundwater sources.

Drought already accounts for about 40 percent of corn crop losses.

Currently more than 40 per cent of the US corn crop goes into producing ethanol, which is mostly mixed with gasoline to fuel conventional cars.

Almost all of this derives from corn, with one bushel of corn yielding about 2.7 gallons of ethanol and about 28 % of the U.S. corn crop going toward ethanol production.

A large proportion of agricultural - related N2O emissions in the U.S. are from corn crops grown in the 12 - state North Central Region (NCR), which is made up of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

«Zero to three years» out of every 24 years means that there were some 24 - year periods where the corn earworm didn't affect corn crops at all.

Monsanto's Roundup Ready corn crops and herbicide resistant soybean crops have also wreaked havoc on our agricultural system by causing soil erosion, nitrate leeching, and water contamination.

The economic damage of the insects on corn crops used to ring in at around $ 1 billion a year.

This is especially scary considering that already approved GM corn crop varieties have been shown to cause organ damage in mammals.

But in Arizona corn crops depend on scarce reservoir water also used for drinking, hygiene and other consumer needs.

The plant converts corn crop residue to cellulosic biofuels.

In context, Ingeo ™ uses less than 1 / 20th of 1 percent (0.05 percent) of the annual global corn crop today, and as such contributes little to no impact on international or local food chains.

A study in Nature Climate Change concluded that a 1 degree C temperature increase will cause wheat yields to decrease by about five percent, and a French study found higher temperatures negatively affected corn crops.

We export 20 % of our entire feed corn crop.

In South Dakota, some 250,000 acres of the state's 3.6 - million - acre corn crop was not planted because the fields were too muddy, Federal farm officials said.

Hackenburg is careful about where he sends his bees and won't let them near corn crops because «if there's contaminants, they're bringing it home.»

Corn closed higher as traders worried about planting progress and reacted to news of increasing crop stress to the Winter Corn crop in Brazil.

Their goal is to reduce the amount of water corn crops require by at least 10 percent, says Wenwei Xu, a research scientist at Texas A&M.

One of the keys to making dwarf corn crops is finding a way to «feminize» the plant by removing steroids that produce large amounts of pollen.

The study, led by Michigan State University professor of ecosystem ecology and GLBRC scientist Stephen Hamilton, is the first multi-year effort to compare the water use of conventional corn crops to the perennial cropping systems of switchgrass, miscanthus, native grasses, restored prairies and hybrid poplar trees.

As it is, nearly 90 % of the U.S. corn crop comes from GMO seed, but more than 60 countries have restrictions or bans on the production and sale of GMOs.

Departing Urubamba around 07:15, we have a further 20 minutes drive to the beginning of the Pumahuanca Valley, land of the famous white corn crops and the Chicha, the Inca's favorite corn beer.

I don't grow field corn, which is the crop at issue in Nepal, but virtually all of the U.S. field corn crop is from hybrid seed.

The prairies have long been Canada's breadbasket, but as the seasons get longer, it may well switch to more profitable corn crops, the mainstay of the manufactured food industry.

So by 2030 (20 years), 26 billion gallons X 1.5 from corn crop biomass waste only (2030) = 39 billion gallons a year (2030).

The past decade has seen the supply of corn greatly exceed the demand — in the US, at least, there is certainly room for limited amounts of corn crop land to be transfered over for cellulose biofuel production, especially high density crops.

While 2008 had horrible floods in the midwest, we still produced the second largest corn crop on record, while using less fertilizer than previous years, due to more efficient planting and growing methods,

It is the incredibly deep and rich soils of the U.S. Midwest that enables the United States to produce 40 percent of the world corn crop and 35 percent of the soybean crop.

As summer progressed, more of the country's corn crop slipped from «good» or «excellent» condition, as rated each week by USDA, to «fair,» «poor,» or «very poor.»

About a year ago on this blog, I offered some skeptical commentary about the gloomy testimony of Dr. Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who warned the House Energy & Commerce Committee that global warming would inflict major losses on U.S. corn crop production unless scientists develop varieties with improved heat resistence.

The USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WSDE) report, released Friday, projects the smallest corn crop in six years and the lowest corn yields per acre since 1995.