Sentences with phrase «fodder crops»

Check out these posts on perennial fodder crops and permaculture design tips for perennial polycultures for more on this fascinating subject.

But they warn us not to tell anyone that the hippies got there first.Paul Douglas brings news that farmers are exploring perennial fodder crops called tagasaste and Old Man Saltbush to protect soils, prevent erosion, and avoid the energy, time and monetary costs of planting annuals for fodder.

Evaluation of Factors Contributing to Excessive Nitrate Accumulation in Fodder Crops Leading to Ill - Health in Dairy Animals — http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052579/

Approximately 1.2 million hectares are given over to fodder crops to feed cattle, according to al - Zayat, which he says «limits the country's ability to grow badly needed wheat».

Wheat, barley, rye, spelt, kamut, triticale (a hybrid grain produced by crossing wheat and rye primarily used as a fodder crop)

Not exact matches

Higher value uses for crop residue — moving away from fertiliser and towards fodder, biofuels, bio-oils and paper production.

That's because refuge crops provide fodder for insect pests that are not resistant to Bt proteins.

Many member states have decided to opt out of growing GM crops approved by the EU, but a proposal to also ban imports of genetically modified fodder looks doomed

This includes doubling crop productivity and the fodder available to feed animals, while also reducing by a third the risk of crop failure due to droughts and other climate shocks.

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.

From an environmentally degraded monoculture, they transformed the farm by switching to native breeds, Highland cattle and Hebridean sheep, growing traditional crops such as oats in the sheaf for winter fodder.

This means that Canada and northern Europe and Asia will have considerably more land available to produce crops and fodder for livestock and that heating costs for their resident populations will decrease, leading to lower demand for power.

In East Africa, climate change has amplified a chain of disasters: floods, extreme droughts, seasonal shifts and crop failure, animal diseases, water and fodder shortage, and social collapse.

Lentils and other legumes grown in hothouses with 700 ppm CO2 improved their total biomass by 91 %, their edible parts yield by 150 % and their fodder yield by 67 %, compared to similar crops grown at 370 ppm carbon dioxide, Indian researchers found.