Sentences with phrase «from smaller crop»

Spain and Italy both look to be sharply down on volume when compared to 2013, while France looks to rebound from the small crop of last year.

Not exact matches

As for the «awesome technologies» that sprang from Jobs's Apple laboratories, would not an impartial observer describe the iPad as just a small laptop computer without a keyboard and a cover rather than an innovation on par with electricity, vaccination or hybrid crops?

For example, 45 years ago here in Saskatchewan, pulses such as lentils and peas were a small part of the province's farm economy.9 In the 1970s, however, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan began searching for a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low prices.

A new crop of hotels is taking cues from Airbnb, opting to be chic, small, and tucked away from touristy areas.

Eighty - eight of those small satellites were the property of Planet; with these eyes on the sky, along with the 50 they already had in orbit, the company promises its customers high - resolution images of the Earth for everything from crop yield monitoring to aiding first responders with real - time images of natural disasters.

Just want to share some valuable info (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-targets-wrong-water-wasters/Content?oid=4222724) since I'm writing from Los Angeles — almond crops are currently responsible for making the current extreme draught conditions even worse because they are such a water - intensive crop in an area that does not naturally have sufficient water supply, so please consider using other nuts and seeds instead, as CA is currently the only major source of almonds in the world (if you're able to find a small, local / non-CA supplier, wonderful!).

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.

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

We grow some of our own crops and buy other crops from small farmers.

Cocoa futures in London climbed to a six - year high in July as the Harmattan reduced output from the smaller of two annual crops in West Africa.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

Over the last decade, a handful of small experiments has indicated that a minuscule amount of pollen from engineered crops can spread up to a few hundred meters.

But a growing number of smaller family farms are transitioning toward organic farming and more diversified crops to gain more value from their land, she said.

According to the RAFI, much of the oil comes from small farmers, who grow coconut trees alongside other crops.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

Skirt: ONE by Spring & Chiffon Elmira Maxi Skirt in Stripes, $ 42.30 from $ 141 / Tee: Splendid Vintage Whisper Cropped Tee, $ 55 / Shoes: Superga Cotu Classic Sneaker, $ 65 / Sunnies: MARC by Marc Jacobs Retro Sunglasses, $ 98 / Bag: JJ Winters Small Fringe Bag, $ 165 / Hat: Bop Basics Open Weave Fedora, $ 45.50 from $ 65

I styled it with wide leg cropped jeans, which needed to be balanced out with some height in a form of Oscar De La Renta heels and I also added a small bag from Salvatore Ferragamo.

Made from stretch fabric, this baby - pink top is cut in a flattering wrap silhouette that's cropped to sit at the smallest part of your waist.

Wore them with a cropped moto leather jacket from Rebecca Minkoff and peasant blouse also from the Isabel Marant for H&M collection.When it comes to diamonds, or fine jewelry, I love the ones that are small and dainty but still make a statement like the Abzu earrings and Lahmu necklace I'm wearing.

I like to think of her boarding the SS Paris in November of 1934, returning to the US from the French collections, most likely carrying a small bag containing her set of jersey «black matches,» which included a tulip skirt, halter, cropped jacket, overcoat with bow neckline, and wide slacks, all fastened with military brass buttons, along with a striped - silk bias - cut «dinner suit.»

From the Young Pope to the Black Lodge — the cream of the TV crop that's already made 2017 a banner year for the small screen

These trips are probably best suited to students working singly or in small groups, so they can participate in the interactive features that crop up from time to time, like short quizzes and games.

Students are then challenged to produce a crop of plants that can grow everywhere in a field by taking advantage of the small variation in root type from one generation to the next.

There's no doubt that the current crop of American small cars can compete with rivals from around the world.

After testing a bumper crop of expensive cars lately from Saab, BMW and Volvo, I had nearly forgotten what it's like to ride in the economy class.The 1998 Chevrolet Metro sedan has just given me a crude reminder.This small sedan - a staple of airport rental car fleets - isn't a bad car, but the low sticker price means you don't get much in the way of refinement or accessories.Forget about cruise control, power windows, mirrors and door locks.

Under that 1981 law, books in the country were sold at a fixed price, which was meant to protect small booksellers from the ravages of big box discount stores and retail chains that were already cropping up even then.

I also have wondered from time - to - time if the small presses that are cropping up have a better business model than the old established houses.

Mr Porritt exemplified his findings that «small really is beautiful as far as growing crops in genuinely sustainable, small - scale ways across Africa» through a recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the work of the Green Belt Movement.

Farmers used it to protect their stock and crops from rats and other small vermin.

Our best friends should not be relegated to lives of neglect, starvation, untreated illness and injury, mutilated feet from constant living on wire in quarters too small for movement, living in the stench of ammonia and eating their own excrement, drinking filthy water, encrusted with fleas and mange, making futile attempts to protect their dying infants from extreme weather (both hot and cold) and having those who live torn from them unweaned, sometimes being abandoned to die slowly in wire cages — all in order to provide a «cash crop» for irresponsible and unfeeling humans.

The town is jammed with people, all eager to taste samples of this year's coffee crop from many of the area's small coffee farms.

Save a small town from corporate interlopers, plant countless crops, fall in love, and raise all manner of precious animals.

Most of the individual portraits are small and tightly cropped above the shoulders, as if they have been trimmed down from bust - length pictures.

Andy Warhol's turtlenecked face stretched like a bad Photoshop edit, Michelangelo's David swathed in a garish pink, and a nod to Pointillism with a «pixelated» Mussolini, appear alongside three small, «cropped» canvases, easily borrowed from Getty Image stock photography, of men's slacks and dress shoes on a red carpet, their identities virtually indistinguishable save for the respective titles, George, David, and Leo.

To begin with you come face to face with a row of small - scale pictures: cinematically close - cropped portraits apparently lit from within by the cool blue light of digital screens.

Aside from a few magnificent landscapes and a couple of smaller cityscapes, his new billboard - like compositions examine multiple figure configurations; either full - scale or in variations of his signature cropped face format.

In many places, following the introduction of these crops, productive land is concentrated in the hands of a few owners due to «the progressive disappearance of small producers, who, as a consequence of the loss of the exploited lands, are obliged to withdraw from direct production».

I caught up with Foley by e-mail, saying that the paper appeared to paint a picture in which cereals, particularly, benefit from fertilizer and the other inputs favored in large - scale farming, while specialty crops can offer smaller farming operations sustainable levels of income.

The organic growers have been seeking to prohibit Monsanto from pursuing patent - protection lawsuits if their crops become cross-contaminated with small amounts of modified genes.

[*) Of course the less money one would invest in biofuels, the smaller the incentive to create cheaper and more sustainable newer generation biofuels — derived from algae or crop residue — instead of the whole food crops or forest biomass.]

Mr Porritt exemplified his findings that «small really is beautiful as far as growing crops in genuinely sustainable, small - scale ways across Africa» through a recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the work of the Green Belt Movement.

Other countries producing ethanol from food crops, though in relatively small amounts, include China, Canada, France, and Germany.

On a smaller scale, we have seen great harm done to poor people around the world by the conversion of maize from a food crop to an energy crop.

The reason this is important, from their perspective is because today's current crop of hybrids use $ 3 a gallon gasoline to keep their batteries recharged — as well as a small percentage that comes from regenerative braking.

They take up a small amount of land, help to protect both crops and livestock from a battering and keep a check on soil erosion too.

Therefor I decided to build a small greenhouse from mostly reclaimed materials and try growing my own crops, it didn't take long before this idea escalated and i spend half a year carrying out the project in my spear - time while being in a half year long internship.

Recently, Michael Olson's Food Chain Radio hosted Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak from UC Davis to discuss the topic of genetically modifying organic crops and you might be surprised what these small farm advocates had to say on the matter.

Americans in cities from New York to Los Angeles, have flocked to the idea of small - scale beekeeping as a way to help save our bees and — like the Obamas — to pollinate their crops and generate some free local honey in the process!»

You can crop images to standard, rectangular widescreen but, of course, what results is rather on the small side, though perfectly viewable from up to a few metres away.

This is particularly true for communities such as those in the Torres Strait which rely on traditional harvest from the land and oceans, and small crops.