Sentences with phrase «for conventional crops»

According to a law passed on 18 June by the Bundestag, farmers and researchers will be liable for any loss of income if a neighbor's produce is contaminated by wayward pollen and can't be certified as «gene - free» — the popular term in Germany for conventional crops.

Although fertilizer derived from human waste is prohibited for organic crops, it can be used for conventional crops and for other applications, such as maintaining golf courses.

Tropical Traditions has a ZERO tolerance level for GMOs, herbicides, and pesticides, and since the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) allows small residue amounts of pesticides and herbicides approved by the EPA for conventional crops to be present in USDA Organic certified products, we knew that we had to develop our own standards to both use in purchasing products directly from producers, as well as to educate our consumers on our own values and standards.

They permit a percentage of what the EPA allows for conventional crops, and that amount is constantly increasing.

Not exact matches

The main experiments used to conduct this research are the Farming Systems Trial (FST)- the oldest continuous trial in the US that compares organic and conventional farming systems, the new Vegetable Systems Trial (VST)- comparing the impacts organic and conventional farming practices on nutrient density in vegetables and linkages to soil health, and Integrated Crop - Livestock Systems using annual and perennial crops along with cattle or hogs for soil, plant, and animal health.

Congress should direct the Risk Management Agency (RMA) to prioritize development of additional organic price elections for crop insurance coverage, and review policies that cap Contract Price Addendums at two - times the conventional price election for any specific crop.

The local cultivation practices currently followed for conventional rice varieties, including the application of fertilizer, crop protection products, and labor, are directly applicable to the cultivation of those varieties containing the GR2E nutritional trait.

Our staff is on their hands and knees across a 10 to 15 acre paddock so depending on the crop, labour costs are 30 to 40 per cent higher than for conventional farms.

While much of conventional farming is doing more harm than good to the climate, wheat may be an important crop for reduc...

Further promoted advantages and promises by the industry include that RR crops create more yield than conventional crops, decrease farmers input costs by reducing the amount of herbicides sprayed and are safe for humans, animals and the environment.

Table 3 below shows figures on energy consumption (GJ) both per hectare and per unit of output (t) for different crops, comparing organic and conventional agriculture systems in Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland.

For example, in Australia approximately one third of organically produced crops and livestock is sold in the conventional market1.

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Organic growers have used Bt toxins in sprays for decades, and conventional farmers have widely adopted transgenic Bt crops since 1996.

However unlike the conventional rubber, it could be harvested more cost - effectively, better cultivated and grown in Germany as a sustainable raw material — even on land areas not previously suited for agricultural crops.

Growing corn continuously under conventional tillage and with high inputs of water and fertilizer may seem outmoded, but this management system is «not uncommon,» as demand for corn grain and crop residues grow, Blanco says.

The reason for the conventional farmers» windfall is tied up in the effectiveness of the transgenic crop.

By dramatically improving the speed and efficiency of conversion over conventional approaches, these enzymes could stimulate efforts to grow crops for fuel, with implications for biodiversity in the form of increased land use for this purpose, potential shifts away from fossil fuel use and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

For many crops more carbon dioxide means a rise in the rate of photosynthesis and, therefore, in growth; and with increased carbon dioxide some plants» use of water is more efficient, according to studies done in conventional glass greenhouses.

«Conventional» biofuels are made from food crops and so compete with food for land, yet efforts to limit the use of conventional biofuels did not make it into the 200Conventional» biofuels are made from food crops and so compete with food for land, yet efforts to limit the use of conventional biofuels did not make it into the 200conventional biofuels did not make it into the 2009 directive.

Now the longest and most comprehensive study to date comparing organic and conventional farming brings encouraging news for organic fans: Organic farms can be nearly as productive as regular farms for some crops, and they leave soils healthier.

Now biodiesel entrepreneurs in tropical zones in Africa and India are buying up land, starting plantations and looking forward to making fuel from the seeds, which, they argue, will be better for the global environment and economy than conventional biofuel crops grown in temperate climates.

Whereas conventional farms tend to use chemical pesticides and artificial fertilizer, organic farms employ cover crops, mulching and mechanical methods for pest control, and composts and manure as fertilizers.

A large group of government researchers from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Merlewood, Rothamsted Research, and the Scottish Crop Research Institute designed a trial that would pit three GM crops against conventional counterparts in some 60 fields across the country.

Even new foods based on conventional crops should be screened for potential health risks, according to a new report.

According to Fernández, the best place for strip till is in fields with a lot of crop residue and conditions that tend to be cool and wet in the spring and where farmers prefer not to do conventional tillage.

The first crops of tomatoes and cucumbers grown inside electricity - generating solar greenhouses were as healthy as those raised in conventional greenhouses, signaling that «smart» greenhouses hold great promise for dual - use farming and renewable electricity production.

These biodegradable particles could be the basis for reduced risk conventional pesticide products that have the potential to reduce the amount of chemicals used in plant protection by as much as 90 percent, save farmers more than 25 percent on pest - control initiatives and, in a world facing looming food shortages, help increase crop yields for more and better food.

And a study last year led by Van Eenennaam that looked at livestock that eat GM feed (they've chowed down on up to 90 % of these crops for about 20 years) didn't find any difference in their health either — and their milk, meat, and eggs were the same nutritionally compared to animals that ate conventional feed.

I'm thinking that synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, etc can not be used for organic crops, but crops could be contaminated by chemicals in the atmosphere just like conventional crops?

High - demand for a crop throughout the year puts stress on conventional farmers to use more land and thus reconstruct more of its natural vegetation for agricultural use.

Loving it draped over a good crop and high - waist trousers, considered a twist for conventional winter wear, but worn appropriately for LA autumn / winter I'd say.

Supplements are called for especially if all ingredients are not organically certified, because the soils of conventional agriculture are nutrient deficient, and almost toxic with synthetic agrichemical fertilizers and pesticides which also contaminate crops.

To claim that manufactured pet foods are scientifically formulated and are therefore safe and provide complete nutrition for growth and health maintenance is as incorrect as contending that genetically engineered crops and foods are «substantially equivalent» to conventional crops and foods and are therefore as safe and as nutritious.

But for delivering sheer calories, especially in our staple crops of wheat, rice, maize, soybeans and so on, conventional farms have the advantage right now.

Gelfand, I., S. S. Snapp, and G. P. Robertson, 2010: Energy efficiency of conventional, organic, and alternative cropping systems for food and fuel at a site in the U.S. Midwest.

Harvested industrial hemp had been hung for drying in a barn — a conventional, standard process that farmers around the country including those in Kentucky and Colorado have utilized for drying their 2015 hemp crops.

Savage's methodology couldn't have been simpler: He lined up and charted organic and conventional yield data for the same crop and state in which they were harvested.

«Organic farming approaches for these crops not only use an average of 30 percent less fossil energy but also conserve more water in the soil, induce less erosion, maintain soil quality and conserve more biological resources than conventional farming does,» Pimentel added.

The main experiments used to conduct this research are the Farming Systems Trial (FST)- the oldest continuous trial in the US that compares organic and conventional farming systems, the new Vegetable Systems Trial (VST)- comparing the impacts organic and conventional farming practices on nutrient density in vegetables and linkages to soil health, and Integrated Crop - Livestock Systems using annual and perennial crops along with cattle or hogs for soil, plant, and animal health.

However, several crops had no significant difference in yields between organic and conventional production, and organic yields surpassed conventional yields for some hay crops.

Similar to previous work, organic crop yields in our analysis were lower than conventional crop yields for most crops.

Giving his suggestions, he stressed the need for developing varieties (idealistic plants) from climate change perspective and introduction of new crops using conventional as well as mutation breeding through biotechnology and genetic engineering.

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[The conventional reasoning] double counts the carbon absorbed by plants when the bioenergy crops are grown on land already used for crop production or already growing other plants because the bioenergy does not necessarily result in additional carbon absorption.

The U.S. does both as well, but on a relatively small scale compared to subsidies for conventional commodity crops.

Professor James Curran and you, Alex are perfectly correct about conventional agriculture in destroying the ability of the soil and hence the ability for plants (and crops) growing in it to take up carbon dioxide — increasing temperatures has the same effects.

The UCS study found that while crop yields of DroughtGard did decrease crop losses by 6 % and would increase overall US corn production by 1 %, conventional crop breeding has been increasing drought tolerance by about 1 % per year for the past 10 years, while this conventional breeding combined with improved farming practices has been able to increase corn production by 1.5 - 2 % annually.

What GMOs do do though is make a lot of money for their developers in terms of seed sales (GM seed can't be collected and saved like conventional seed has been for millennia) and in selling pesticides (to which most GM crops have been bred to resist).