Sentences with phrase «fertilizer than other crops»

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The trend, he noted, is for a focus on single rather than rotated crops, an increased use of organic pesticides and herbicides and the importing of manure - based fertilizers from other locations.

Sorghum can potentially yield more energy per area of land than other crops while requiring much less input in terms of fertilizer or chemicals.

«However, the greatest reduction in nitrogen leaching occurs when bioenergy crops displace other cropland or grassland, because energy crops consume more water and less nitrogen fertilizer than the crops and grasses that they replace, resulting in less water runoff and nitrogen loss.»

Now, researchers have engineered microbes that, when added to soil, make fertilizer on demand, producing plants that grow 1.5 times larger than crops not exposed to the bugs or other synthetic fertilizers.

In 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that 12.8 billion tons of nitrogen fertilizer costing more than $ 800 million were added to fields that produce corn, cotton, grains and other commodity crops.

Peas, on the other hand, are an environmentally - friendly agricultural crop that consume less energy, water and fertilizer than other grains and legumes.

Modern corn hybrids require more nitrogen fertilizer, herbicides, and insecticides than any other crop, while causing the most extensive erosion of top soil.

Energy crops produce energy efficiently, requiring only modest amounts of fertilizer and pesticide, and less fertile soil than is needed for other types of agriculture.