Sentences with phrase «fed on crops»

Conventional meat is not an efficient way to get nutrients because animals must be fed on crops, and much of the energy that goes into cultivating the crops is wasted.

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Farmers learned that milk quality hinged on adequate feed crop irrigation.

Farmers learned that the milk quality depended on the cows» diet, which in turn depended on adequate feed crop irrigation.

Since nutrient - rich quinoa is also drought resistant, and grows well on poor soils without irrigation or fertilizer, it's been designated a «super crop» by the United Nations, for its potential to feed the hungry poor of the world.

In addition to their abundant organic crops, Hill Top Farms also offers a tour of the 30 acre farm which consists of a trip through the horse barn where participants get a up close, hands on education about equine care including feeding and grooming one or more of the nine resident horses, feeding the chickens and petting the goats and a hayride out to the fields where you get to see and taste organic vegetables in production and learn about how things grow and why organics is important.

Other factors also contribute to pest outbreaks such as excessive fertilizer which creates luxuriant crops for the hoppers to feed on and continuous rice cropping that doesn't allow for a break in the food supply of the pests.

As part of its Less Is More campaign, Greenpeace is now calling on governments to stop promoting meat and dairy - focused policies and instead support growing crops for humans, rather than to feed animals.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Farmers around Europe — including in many countries that oppose growing GM crops — depend on the imports for feeding livestock.

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

Most mayonnaises, including Kraft Miracle Whip, contain genetically engineered ingredients, specifically oil and vinegar made from genetically engineered crops, and eggs from factory farmed chickens raised on genetically engineered feed.

The central issue here is that the sheer amount of crops that spoil on farms or still useable food that we throw away would be enough on its own to feed those people who go hungry.

But although 412 Food Rescue recently acquired a small refrigerated truck for highly perishable items, their model relies on a large network of 750 individual volunteers, much like the new crop of tech - driven companies around the nation that are finding ways to simultaneously reduce food waste and feed the food insecure.

Pollinators are vital to crops that feed cattle, which means no more yogurt, cheeses or other dairy options on the salad bar.

The reliance on rudimentary and rain - fed agriculture, Mr Greenstreet said, had not helped the country and advocated massive investment in the country's research institutions, and added that because most of the research institutions were donor - funded, they were promoting genetically modified crops in Ghana instead of paying attention to local crops.

Parasitic nematodes feed on a wide range of crops, including corn, wheat, coffee, soybeans, potatoes and a host of fruit trees.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

Howard - Yana Shapiro, a plant scientist wizard, focused on how to improve nutrition in crops, rather than just the volume of the yield, and the coming crisis in feeding the world's population.

«They're feeding on agronomically important crops.

Obviously, the numbers of people that it is trying to feed; problems of shortages of water, disappearing quantities of top soil on which we have to grow these different crops; and, of course, now climate change, which also is throwing a lot of randomness or bad factors into our attempts to grow enough food for everybody.

Could growing crops on high - rise buildings feed growing urban populations, thereby sparing the need to cultivate more and more tracts of land?

A severe drought has ravaged crops in Central America and as many as 2.81 million people are struggling to feed themselves, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, though the region's coffee crop has been largely unscathed.

These crops, being embraced by big agriculture in the U.S., carry genes that imbue them with resistance to herbicides and lace their tissues with a bacterial toxin harmless to humans but fatal to pests that may try to feed on them.

Therefore, researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison created a study to compare the effects of feeding strategies and the associated crop hectares on GHG emissions of Wisconsin certified organic dairy farms.

Feed on the pests of vegetable crops such as aphids and whitefly

«The reason we think biofuels can reduce global warming is because we assume the feed crop will take carbon out of the air,» says Tim Searchinger of Princeton, the lead author of a report on biofuels» environmental impact in a February issue of Science [subscription required].

During each assignment, the bees fed on row after row of the same crop.

Scientists have long thought that tooth decay only became common in humans about 10,000 years ago, when we began farming — and eating starchy crops that fed sugar - loving bacteria on our teeth.

They say that far too heavy an emphasis is placed on the cultivation of cash crops such as soya beans for export at the expense of crops to feed local people.

Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.

Bats also help with crops: they act as a natural pesticide by feeding on harmful insects.

More than 3 billion people in the world depend on rice as their primary food, and nearly one - fourth of the world's crop is grown in rain - fed lowland plots prone to seasonal and sustained flash floods.

Heffernan asserts that developing crop - based fish feeds to replace fish protein and oil in aquaculture will add to pressure on...

Several of the species from the family have economic importance with their larva living in the soil and feeding on the bases of some crops such as lettuce and cabbage.

These Carolina parakeets, the only parrot native to the continental United States, once flew in large noisy flocks, feeding on agricultural crops.

Heffernan asserts that developing crop - based fish feeds to replace fish protein and oil in aquaculture will add to pressure on land.

«I can say that there has not been a more exciting time to be a researcher on the continent and to work on a crop that feeds more than 500 million people,» said Rabbi.

It was the first to calculate both the amounts and type of food wasted and to model the behavior's impact on available resources like the amount of water and farmland wasted to grow the fodder to feed the livestock and cultivate the crops that consumers chuck.

The United Nations predicts that global crop production will need to increase by 70 percent on the land we're currently using by the year 2050 in order to feed the world population.

According to the paper, microalgae, which can be grown in salt water or produced on otherwise degraded land, can be used as livestock feed, freeing up land currently used for pasture and feed crops.

And a study last year led by Van Eenennaam that looked at livestock that eat GM feed (they've chowed down on up to 90 % of these crops for about 20 years) didn't find any difference in their health either — and their milk, meat, and eggs were the same nutritionally compared to animals that ate conventional feed.

The current crop of OPDS clients on smartphones rely entirely on a navigation based on a series of links (Navigation Feeds) and publications (Acquisition Feeds).

The Twitter feed will display up to 435 x 375 pixels, cropping anything larger to fit that size — viewers can see the whole thing when they click on it or visit your gallery.

Feed or grain (or other crops) growing on the property and seed that has been planted are not covered - those would typically require a commercial insurance policy if the sale proceeds exceed your policy's incidental income limit.

They feed heavily on nuts, flowers, seeds, animal feed, mushrooms, tree buds, cultivated crops, and bird eggs.

Save enough money and you can install automated systems to keep your crops watered and animals fed (or, if you prefer, you can snag yourself a husband or wife, who can take some of the burden) allowing you to focus on other hobbies and interests, such as brewing craft beer, beekeeping, crab - catching, playing on the arcade machine in the local bar, or cooking the various recipes you learn from watching the food channel on your TV.

Their role is to screen all uploads according to specific corporate standards of propriety: making sure beheadings and gang rapes don't crop up in our Facebook news feeds, and nipples don't surprise us on Instagram.

The New York - based artist will install images, all printed the same scale of scans of Ibiza flyers, tracksuits and magazines, default Photoshop image effects, commercial and cell phone photography and low - res screen captures that would, if cropping up on a social media feed, be hashtag - ged with the words «currentmood»; a way of illustrating your specific emotional state via an image that is not specific or related to you and your life at all.

I hope EL Nino does break our drought because rain falling on the desert instead of the remaining topsoil in the dried up Murry - Darling basin isn't going to feed anyone (I think we are around the 4th largest grain exporter, a 62 % reduction in our grain crop equals a loss of ~ 17,000,000 tons).

On the other hand it uses and existing source instead of burning 1 / 6th of our feed crop for the ethanol boondoggle.