Sentences with phrase «feed his crops in»

Have a pesky cousin that just won't stop pinging you with requests to help feed his crops in Farmville?

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There Friedberg observed that most farmers plant corn and soybeans because they make can make the most money through those crops, in large part because of their role as animal feed that supports humans» massive appetite for meat.

The emerging middle classes in China and India are consuming more meat, which requires more crops to be grown for animal feed.

After 1980, Chile did indeed begin to break up its large landholdings, but in a way dictated by Chicago monetarists emphasizing export crops wine and vegetables rather than grain to feed its population by a policy of import displacement.

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

In fact, Cinda produces enough crops to not only feed her own family but also to sell the excess at the market.

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Buckwheat was a common and popular crop in Europe and the United States for many years - but more as animal feed than as human food.

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 importanIn 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 importanin production and learn about how things grow and why organics is important.

Despite years of vehement public opposition to the field and feed test of Golden Rice in the past decade — a genetically engineered rice promoted for commercialization in Asia, the Department of Agriculture — Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), PhilRice has filed renewed application this year toopen field test the genetically modified crop in the municipality of San Mateo in Isabela and Muñoz in Nueva Ecija.

In a world where nearly one billion people are starving, one third of all cereal crops — and well over 90 per cent of soya — goes into animal feed, not food for humans.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

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.

Dryland pasture paddocks are exhausted of feed and grazing of the sorghum and turnips summer crops is about to end in a week.

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.

The Treaty recognizes the enormous contribution of farmers to the diversity of crops that feed the world and seeks to ensure that benefits flow primarily to farmers, especially in developing countries, who conserve and sustainably use this diversity.

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.

These standards prohibit the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in all our products and forbid using genetically modified crops grown or purchased to feed cows.

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In June, Kirschenman wound up feeding a significant share of his watermelon crop to cows.

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The best news: rice is the world's # 3 crop and there's plenty of it to not only feed the yogaphile population, but could provide a karma yogic dent in helping world hunger issues.

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If the technologists succeed in designing new characteristics for food formulations, the hardier sorghum crop could become a cheaper source for alternative ingredients to wheat, already the case for the animal feed market.

The report calls for the creation of innovative public - private partnership arrangements, as well as partnerships involving different levels of government, civil society organizations, and donor organizations, in areas from crop technology to the provision of school feeding programs to help bring about sustainable food security throughout Asia.

I know lots of men who are doing lots of things — working to make the world safer from nuclear weapons, helping poor farmers in Africa and Sudan increase their crops so they can feed their families, investigating fraud, fighting for justice... Oh, wait — that's not what Regnerus means; he means try getting them to woo a woman properly and commit and marry.

All in all I am very proud of the modern mama for standing up for what is right (pumping time / space at work, etc.) and for society slowly responding with such things as the cropping up of «pumping / feeding booths» at ballparks and airports.

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.

Through the 20th century, farming in the region shifted dramatically away from growing fruits and vegetables and towards producing commodity crops, which are primarily used in processed foods and for animal feed.

Just three corporations — Monsanto, Syngenta, and Bayer — are responsible for virtually all commercially released GM crops in the world (almost all the GM food crops are still just being grown in Canada, the USA, Argentina and Brazil, and almost all used for animal feed).

It brought about a global revolution in agriculture — today, crops grown using ammonia - based fertilisers feed no less than 48 per cent of the planet.

Its strategy consists of four key components: 1) Priority identification — we respond to the crop biotechnology needs and priorities identified by developing countries; 2) Technology appraisal — we work to identify, evaluate, and facilitate the acquisition of new crop biotechnology applications; 3) Project implementation — we implement a portfolio of crop biotechnology projects that have a potential for near - term impact in food, feed, fiber crops, and forestry; and 4) Services for the enabling environment — we provide advice and services to assist in the development of an enabling environment to support the safe application of crop biotechnology.

Researchers have tended to overlook the possibility that apparent state «collapses» in the archaeological record involved intentional flights of subjects fed up with war, taxes, epidemics and crop failures, Scott says.

In addition, it promotes the public understanding of scientific advances in crop biotechnology and their implications for the consistent availability of sufficient quantities of food, feed, and fibeIn addition, it promotes the public understanding of scientific advances in crop biotechnology and their implications for the consistent availability of sufficient quantities of food, feed, and fibein crop biotechnology and their implications for the consistent availability of sufficient quantities of food, feed, and fiber.

In that vein, feedlot operations could be more environmentally friendly if they used less fertilizers and cover crops in the grain production component for their feeIn that vein, feedlot operations could be more environmentally friendly if they used less fertilizers and cover crops in the grain production component for their feein the grain production component for their feed.

The aim is simple: to enable all major crop plants to make their own fertiliser, a feat that will in turn help feed the world and have many environmental benefits too.

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.

Yields of many key crops in the region, including maize, beans, and a kind of grass used for feeding cattle, would drop significantly in an altered climate, the scientists determined.

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.

• As the amount of meat in the diet was reduced between scenarios, the amount of land necessary for crops to feed livestock was also reduced.

In this baseline diet, roughly 80 percent of available cropland was used to grow crops for animal feed, such as hay, while the other 20 percent was devoted to fruits, vegetables and grains for human consumption.

But the bubble burst when it became apparent that there wasn't enough agricultural land in the U.S. or elsewhere to grow sufficient amounts of corn, palm and other crops to feed both people and their engines.

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.

Studies show that only about 30 percent of the nitrogen fertilizers used in agriculture are actually taken up by the crops they are intended to feed.

Poachers have killed 250 of Virunga's 300 elephants in recent years, probably with the acquiescence of residents fed up with crop raiding by the animals.