Sentences with phrase «for animal fodder»

Prior to technology handing us the key to Earth's energy Fort Knox, society had to reply on the sun's energy budget that turned sunlight into plant matter on a yearly cycle, storing it in rings of trees and seas of grass: the former providing the charcoal for forges; and latter for animal fodder.

Sorghum is a tall cereal grain that is grown for food in arid parts of Africa and South Asia, and for animal fodder (and sometimes biofuel) in many developed and developing countries.

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The animals and all the resources of Earth are fodder for our use.

There are more picture books about St. Francis of Assisi than any other religious figure, including Christ; Francis» love of animals is rich fodder for an artist.

The animal no longer cooperates with the human ecology but is simply fodder for it.

I am springing into the wonderful world of growing fodder for my pasture animals and I'm seeing primarily wheat and barley used.

A perennial cousin to bread wheat, wheatgrass was introduced to the Western Hemisphere from Asia in the 1930s as fodder for farm animals.

The finding could help explain how animals can tell water from other fluids, and it adds new fodder to a centuries - old debate: Does water have a taste of its own, or is it a mere vehicle for other flavors?

It's most likely, the researchers suggest, that the rare white - lipped variant of the snail hitched a ride with traders traveling from the Mediterranean region through the Pyrenees on their way to Ireland — perhaps unintentionally, in fodder for the trader's animals or, more intriguingly, as a part of the trader's food supplies.

The once dense and ubiquitous common reed (Phragmites australis) served as raw material for homes, handicrafts, tools, and animal fodder for thousands of years.

Animals for the menagerie provide more fodder for stories from the past.

The attack provided fodder for animal - rights groups eager to bring about the demise of pet retailing and further increase government intervention.

but is it fit for human consumption or only as animal fodder?

Grazing requirements and growing fodder for the winter led to over-production of pastures, erosion, and the need to go further and further afield to sustain the animals.

Temperate grasslands contain a substantial soil carbon pool, are important for maintaining soil stability and provide fodder for wild and domestic animals.