Sentences with phrase «crop and livestock»

Without their sustainability and care of crops and livestock, our population would be in serious danger.

Many agricultural regions will experience declines in crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change - induced stresses.

The state depends on the export market, and farm income from crop and livestock producers has been strong.

This productivity is vulnerable to direct impacts on crops and livestock from changing climate conditions and extreme weather events and indirect impacts through increasing pressures from pests and pathogens.

Increased pests, water stress, diseases, and weather extremes will pose adaptation challenges for crop and livestock production.

Humans have already converted about 43 percent of the ice - free land surface of the planet to uses like raising crops and livestock and building cities, the scientists said.

This should lead to more knowledge and understanding about living organisms, including crops and livestock that are the basis of food security for the world population.

Most farmers welcome hunters to shoot the predators that may roam their land, damaging crops and livestock.

This can lead to drought that can cause water shortages and crop and livestock losses from dried up fields.

Genetic engineering offers enormous possibilities for breakthrough medical therapies and diagnostics, as well as producing more nutritious and resilient crops and livestock.

My office has been in contact with the state farm bureau and relevant state offices regarding the assessment of damage to crops and livestock as a result of the hurricane.

The rising incidence of weather extremes will have increasingly negative impacts on crop and livestock productivity because critical thresholds are already being exceeded.

Since the late 20th century, global trade volume has grown exponentially, increasing the demand for agriculture, crop and livestock products.

Seeing crops and livestock grown on a farm provides a different perspective than even the little vegetable and herb garden we keep in our backyard.

Research by the group is to focus on developing technologies and techniques to mitigate emissions from crop and livestock cultivation, and adapting agricultural systems to rising temperatures.

So it's often tricky to try to separate out the climate change signal from what might be a host of other things relating to how we manage crops and livestock.

Maybe to create more disease - resistant crops and livestock.

Their property, crops and livestock soon fell into eager white hands.

By mid-century and beyond, these impacts will be increasingly negative on most crops and livestock.

Climate change decreases food security by causing extreme weather that wipes out crops and livestock populations.

Those come with the usual tendency toward drought, water shortages and crop and livestock losses.

In addition, «many agricultural regions will experience declines in crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change - induced stresses,» the draft report says.

In a statement released Monday, the SFC said that marketplace startup Black Cell Technology Limited, which sells the «krop» token as a means of connecting buyers with crop and livestock producers, had effectively launched a Collective Investment Scheme (CIS), which under local regulations must be preregistered and authorized.

For example, researchers have demonstrated that the method can be used to treat muscular dystrophy and glaucoma in mice, render human cells grown in lab dishes resistant to HIV, and help create food crops and livestock with desirable traits.

He provides staff support to OTA's Farmer Advisory Council, on - the - ground outreach to OTA's organic farmer membership community and analysis of policy issues that affect organic crop and livestock producers.

Researchers at Rodale Institute, Iowa State University, and the University of Minnesota are in the third year of a four - year project titled «Integrating Crops and Livestock in a Systems Approach to Enhance Organic Farm Stability, Safety and Resilience.»

However, the USDA does oversee the National Organic Program (NOP) that provides the regulations and standards for organically produced crops and livestock in the U.S..

To avoid stumbling into this nightmarish future, Thornton and his coauthors say the region will need extensive investment in agricultural productivity, improved data collection to track the weather, organized testing of how crops and livestock will fare in a hotter, drier climate, and a program to educate local farmers.

Organic farms mitigate such problems by on - farm or cooperative use of farmyard manure between crop and livestock operations (El - Hage Scialabba and Müller - Lindenlauf 2010).

There are plenty of other sustainable forms of food production that still need to be explored, he says, including integrated farming, conservation agriculture and mixed crop and livestock farming, each of which aim to reduce environmental impacts, enhance soil quality and keep nutrient cycles balanced.

Nate Lewis is the OTA senior crops and livestock specialist.

«I think that would have been a tool or a piece of the puzzle,» says the OTA's Senior Crops and Livestock Specialist, Nate Lewis of the transitional certification.

The Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Professor Eyitope Ogunbodele on Wednesday declared that the only solution to the frequent clashes between crop and livestock farmers...

First Steps: Since he was 10 years old, Streich has lived on a farm, helping tend crops and livestock.

Agricultural workers, who help farmers maintain crops and livestock, marry others with the same job 27 % of the time — and agricultural managers, such as farmers and ranchers, do so 20 % of the time.

Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) Organic Certification Cost Share Program: This option applies to certified organic producers (crop and livestock operators only) in 16 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

The Organic Production Surveys, conducted by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, provide acreage, production, and sales data for a variety of organic crop and livestock commodities plus organic marketing and agricultural practices.

Organic crops and livestock are not tested in Canada before they are certified, thus making organic certification essentially meaningless

Organic agriculture also helps farmers adapt to climate change by strengthening agro-ecosystems, diversifying crop and livestock production, and building farmers» knowledge of the earth.

By Deb Gangwish Deb Gangwish and her husband Paul have raised five children, row crops and livestock on their family farm in Shelton, Nebraska.

Jeremy Cooke reports from Somerset on the struggle by farmers to rebuild their livelihoods after flooding devastated crops and livestock.

If that's not enough, Venter sees a role for synthetic biology in food beyond crops and livestock — specifically the growing hunger for meat around the world.

Ten thousand years ago, at the dawn of the Neolithic era, the agricultural revolution began to yield vastly larger amounts of food from cultivated crops and livestock, allowing rapid growth in human populations.

We find that this comprehensive approach lowers the cost of meeting environmental goals but also carries with it profound implications for agriculture: Unmanaged ecosystems and forests expand, and food crop and livestock prices rise.

In the end, three companies formed to try to exploit CRISPR to create novel medicines, while Broad and two other companies licensed the technology to partners that hoped to engineer everything from improved crops and livestock to better animal models and industrial chemicals.