Sentences with phrase «feed crops»

This creates the double benefit of providing protection against pests and feeding the crops with nutrients in a format that can be readily absorbed through the leaves.
A study of some North African countries suggests that some rain - fed crop yields could decline as much as 50 percent in extreme years by 2020.
The biggest driver behind these «land use changes,» as the climate change folks call them, is the expansion of pasture for cattle, feed crops for livestock, and oil palm for processed foods and biofuels.
Produce from poultry and livestock fed these crops and their byproducts can also be nutritionally deficient and contaminated with agrichemicals.
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.
The same time last year, JBS was the target of a Greenpeace report that accused it of continuing to level rainforest in the Amazon to create pastureland for cattle and to grow feed crops.
Diverse studies of global land cover and potential productivity suggest that anywhere from 600 million to more than 7 billion additional acres of underutilized rural lands are available for expanding rain - fed crop production around the world, after excluding the 4 billion acres of cropland currently in use, as well as the world's supply of closed forests, nature reserves, and urban lands.
Have a pesky cousin that just won't stop pinging you with requests to help feed his crops in Farmville?
This happens when inter-species crop hybrids are formed by cross-pollination (which is often the case in conventional breeding of major food or feed crops such as wheat or Triticale), or by the stresses of cold nights in Sicilian orange groves.
The latter cut a five - year deal with the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, to develop fuels from farm waste, excess from feed crops, or biomass from shrubs.
Uneducated parents, spoon - fed cropped VHS presentations throughout their youth, are responsible for the recent full - frame surge in DVD.)
But I don't see any really large - scale efforts to develop new feed crops that can be grown on land that can't be used for the current ones using salty water not currently considered suitable for agriculture.
Practically speaking, one would probably use for ethanol production only a little over half of the soil bank lands and add to this some portion of the plants now grown as animal feed crops (for example, on the 70 million acres that now grow soybeans for animal feed).
AMP grazing and other methods of intensely managed grazing decrease the need for conventionally grown, annual feed crops that emit carbon and other greenhouse gases, because the animals are eating directly from the land in ways that restore ecosystem functions and health.
Watkins sees his crops feeding his cattle and his cattle's manure feeding his crops.
This result is related to a declining yield gap between irrigated and rain - fed agriculture caused by yield reductions of irrigated crops due to higher temperatures, or yield increases of rain - fed crops due to more precipitation.
(Land use changes, such as deforestation and desertification caused by over-pasturing livestock or growing feed crops, account for another 35.4 %, while manure accounts for 30.5 %).
They conducted a series of model simulations that indicate an intensification of food and feed crop production is the most effective contribution to global climate mitigation for land in the Midwest.
And then a recent model of climate impact for the future conducted by The International Food Policy Research Institute projected that if current rates of greenhouse gas emissions continue, yields of rain - fed crops in Syria will likely decline between 29 and 57 percent from 2010 to 2050.
At a cost of $ 280 an acre, up from $ 160, Willemse couldn't afford to feed his crops.
The creation that used to rejoice with us and to remind us of the beauty and bounty of God now groans with us as rain and snow do not come to feed our crops and as the earth grumbles and the waters spit out death.
Statistically speaking, if we fed those crops to people rather than farmed animals, we could feed three billion more people.
Livestock production is the largest source of water pollutants, principally animal wastes, antibiotics, hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feed crops, and sediments from eroded pastures.
Miners pull phosphate ore out of the ground, crush it, and throw it into an acid lake, where it separates into white gypsum stacks and a liquid acid that is then processed further to feed crops.
«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].
The 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that by 2020 yields in Africa from rain - fed crops — which make up the vast majority of African crops, including cacao — could be reduced by up to 50 percent in some countries.
These feed crops have to be grown somewhere, however, and the worldwide land conversions necessary to make up for lost U.S. crops would release carbon dioxide.
Cotton, traditionally a rain - fed crop, is threatened by erosion and by irregular rains.
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.
Some of these toxic effects are observed at low, realistic doses that could be found as residues in food and feed crops and in drinking water.
On the other hand it uses and existing source instead of burning 1 / 6th of our feed crop for the ethanol boondoggle.
As the Congressional Research Service (CRS) explains: «Over time, the growth in the RFS slowly transitions from consisting primarily of biofuels made mostly from food and feed crops to biofuels made from non-food and non-feed crops.»
But farmers drained it to plants crops and the land keeps subsiding as they pump out more and more groundwater to feed their crops.
For rain - fed crops, water productivity is typically 1 metric ton (~ 2,205 pounds) per 100 millimeters (~ 4 inches).
Without country - wide water delivery infrastructure, people in these areas must rely on the bodies of water nearby to feed their crops and sustain their personal needs.
A lengthening of the growing season in regions with these mostly rain - fed crops could improve yields, provided that water availability does not become an issue.
So both the aquifer is not replenished, and more water is pumped to feed crops.
What is new now is the scramble to secure land abroad for more basic food and feed crops — including wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans — and for biofuels.
FIn the United States and Canada, half of all synthetic fertilizer is used for feed crops.
«Cellulosic crops... may be grown in areas unsuitable for grains and other food / feed crops and thus do not compete with food.»
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