Sentences with phrase «crops at a farm»

The first wave of Field Scale Evaluations saw farms attacked by anti-GM protestors - most notably in July 1999, when 30 Greenpeace activists, led by Lord Peter Melchett, destroyed crops at a farm in Lyng, Norfolk.

So, I can imagine my 7 - year - old self being pretty pumped to go learn about soil and crops at a farm like this one.

Not exact matches

At Kent Erickson's farm near Irma, Alta., (two hours southeast of Edmonton), about an inch of rain has been steadily falling every day in recent weeks, which has been helpful to his wheat crops.

The reason, explains William Niebur, vice-president of crop genetics research and development at Pioneer, is that growing crops in colder temperatures will open up new land for farming and contribute to greater agricultural productivity.

For example, 45 years ago here in Saskatchewan, pulses such as lentils and peas were a small part of the province's farm economy.9 In the 1970s, however, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan began searching for a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low prices.

Well, I hope you don't wear clothes of different fabric, or farm (or purchase food from a farm) which puts different crops side by side, or mind if I buy your daughter at a decent price (though I don't know the going rate, but I could sure use the worker), or that you don't work on the Sabbath, or eat any kind of shellfish, or get a hair cut, or play football.

We have always been at the forefront not only of resisting genetically modified crops and foods, but more significantly, in promoting and practicing a healthier, more sustainable way of farming.

At Rodale Institute, Ross is responsible for field maintenance including planting and seeding, maintaining the farm equipment necessary to work the fields, and expanding the livestock operations, particularly the vertical integration of the poultry and hog operations into crop rotations.

Crowder, lead author and assistant professor of entomology at Washington State University, says he and Reganold became interested in the topic after reading a study several years ago that indicated that organic farming produces a lower crop yield than conventional agriculture.

«What we have are birddogs at the source,» Friedman says, referring to employees who spend time visiting the farms the companies» source from, and some farmers move their entire crops through the companies.

At Arrowhead Mills ®, we pride ourselves in organic farming using no potentially harmful pesticides or herbicides, no artificial preservatives, flavors or colors and no genetically engineered ingredients in our organic fields and crops.

The fund has a substantial western Victoria cropping aggregation a prized King Island aggregation for beef production and a farming aggregation at Darlington Point for irrigated cropping in NSW which includes the famed Tubbo Station and Huddersfield.

Image from National Organic Combinable Crops at Green Acres Farm, Shropshire (2013) Booking is now open for the 2018 National Organic Combinable Crops (#NOCC18) conference, the largest and longest - running organic on - farm event in theFarm, Shropshire (2013) Booking is now open for the 2018 National Organic Combinable Crops (#NOCC18) conference, the largest and longest - running organic on - farm event in thefarm event in the UK.

Total farm gate value of the 2016 crop stands at $ 498 million.

With only 0.5 percent of crop and pasture land in organic, according to USDA that leaves 99.5 percent of farm acres in the U.S. at risk of -LSB-...]

Tour, learn, pick, sample, and taste special tree crops in - season at eclectic Cunningham Organic Farm, located west of Old Town Temecula and nestled in the hills next to the Cleveland National Forest.

The variability of contexts in which agroforestry crops are grown around the world is something the latest draft to SAN standard is not ignoring, and the standard proposal is focused on achieving positive impacts also at the landscapes level, not just farm level.

Farms or groups of farms with non shade - tolerant crops have at least 10 percent total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of fFarms or groups of farms with non shade - tolerant crops have at least 10 percent total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of ffarms with non shade - tolerant crops have at least 10 percent total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of farmsfarms.

The Organic Farm Gate and Organic Crop Protectants supported the Australian Organic display, making it one of the busiest displays at the Convention.

Alongside Organic Crop Protectants and Organic Farm Gate, Australian Organic will feature prominently at the AUSVEG National Convention in Cairns, June 19 — 21.

This event went extremely well for The Organic Farm Gate and Organic Crop Protectants and if you want to share in the exposure at the 2015 AUSVEG Convention on the Gold Coast contact Joanne Barber [phone] or [email protected]

It owns 9710 hectares of cropping country in the fertile North Star area of northern NSW, a 4926 - hectare aggregation at Darlington Point in NSW's Riverina, a 6786 - hectare King Island property, a 1145 - hectare dairy operation on Tasmania's northern Cradle Coast and a 5425 - hectare cropping farm in Western Victoria.

At least 20 % of the total farm area for farms where the majority of the production plots are occupied by shade - tolerant crops.

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

Technologies that will be presented at the exhibition include Gamaya, which has been designed to improve the efficiency and sustainability of industrial farms, as well as new sorting solutions that have the potential to increase the yield of the maize crop.

Several QAI staff members volunteer at Wild Willow Farm and Education Center, a six - acre working farm in San Diego that grows vegetables, greens, medicinal and culinary herbs, and cover cropFarm and Education Center, a six - acre working farm in San Diego that grows vegetables, greens, medicinal and culinary herbs, and cover cropfarm in San Diego that grows vegetables, greens, medicinal and culinary herbs, and cover crops...

Our Indonesian business supports a community farming organisation in East Java in planting a variety of crop trees on 45.5 hectares at

We will meet this ambitious goal by attacking the problem at every point of entry, from farm to table to trash: tackling everything from how smallholder farmers grow and store their crops, to how corporations account for food loss and waste, to consumer tolerance for throwing away food.

Farms with shade - tolerant crops have at least 15 % total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of farms or a shade canopy fulfilling the SAN canopy cover and species diversity parameFarms with shade - tolerant crops have at least 15 % total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of farms or a shade canopy fulfilling the SAN canopy cover and species diversity paramefarms or a shade canopy fulfilling the SAN canopy cover and species diversity parameters.

Our Indonesian business supports a community farming organisation in East Java in planting a variety of crop trees on 45.5 hectares at Sumberejo Arjuna Mountain.

Farms or groups of farms with non shade - tolerant crops have at least 10 % total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of fFarms or groups of farms with non shade - tolerant crops have at least 10 % total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of ffarms with non shade - tolerant crops have at least 10 % total native vegetation coverage across the farm or groups of farmsfarms.

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

At the heart of the sanctuary is a working farm with both livestock and crops operations.

We grow a wide and beautiful variety of crops here at Drumlin Farm.

From June to October, look for our special Thursday gleaning shifts, where volunteers help us harvest crops at local farms.

At the Hood Dairy in Oneida, Hanna ticked off the things in the Farm Bill that will help upstate New York farmers: the five - year bill provides stability for farmers; it transitions farmers to a more modern dairy support program; it expands crop insurance, offers more support for organic farming, and help to young farmers who want to get in the business.

Professor Douglas Baird and his team discovered the presence of carbonised seeds and phytoliths of wheat chaff at Boncuklu, along with agricultural weeds commonly found in early farming sites, suggesting the cultivation of crops did take place.

For Hope Hart, Syngenta's product safety team leader, the company's commitment to social responsibility reinforces her volunteer work at local schools or community groups where she discusses the safety of GM crops or how they help increase small - farm — holders» profits.

Such no - till farming provides a double benefit for farmers: improved soils and reduced fuel use, because it negates the need to harvest the stalks with tractors and other equipment (although it can lead to short - term reductions in crop yields) says Chuck Rice, a soil scientist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan..

Mark Howden, head of agricultural climate adaptation projects at CSIRO in Canberra, oversees projects to develop new farming systems that reduce water seepage and new crops bred with genetic traits suited to hotter, drier conditions and elevated carbon dioxide.

But they had not taken a broad look at what the impacts have been on farms that grow biotech crops.

Long before the use of sophisticated irrigation equipment, those along the lower Nile relied on natural flooding in the late summer and fall to deliver water — and fertile sediment — to the floodplains where they farmed their crops, says Francis Ludlow, a historical climatologist at Trinity College in Dublin.

While farming methods vary, traditional manipulated «agroecosystems» generally differ from natural ecosystems in six ways: maintenance at an early successional state, monoculture, crops generally planted in rows, simplification of biodiversity, plough which exposes soil to erosion, use of genetically modified organisms and artificially selected crops meanwhile agroecology tends to minimize the human impact.

In February, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, he captivated the crowd with early results from a project in Africa that uses low - cost fertilizers and improved farming techniques to increase crop yields several times over.

That's why farmers in Africa have begun lacing crops with a benign cousin of the toxic A. flavus — a biocontrol approach that is already established at many farms in Arizona and Texas.

At a research farm owned by U.C. Davis, a giant bed of knee - high plants, some already budding and flowering, has taken root between neatly organized crop rows that run to the horizon.

Osborne said the crop varieties and farming practices in southerly regions could simply migrate north as the climate warms, with the limitations imposed by different soil types, and that at some point, northward migration would become impossible because of the terrain.

This growing season, crop researchers at the University of Illinois are experimenting with the use of drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — on the university's South Farms.

A farming community where people grow rice and cash crops such as vanilla, this tiny town at the outskirts of Marojejy National Park is one of the few remaining places on Earth where light pollution is not a problem.

On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»