Sentences with phrase «fuel farm machinery»

Conventional cotton growing consumes 500 pounds of pesticide per square mile and requires up to a pound of oil per pound of cultivated cotton to fuel farm machinery and crop dusters.

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In order to compare farming systems, they are subdivided into emissions due to burning of oil and fuel (direct energy) and the use of oil and fuel for the production and transport of fertilizers, machinery and synthetic pesticides (indirect energy).

A final significant finding, Vogel says, is that yields on farms using fertilizer and other inputs, such as herbicides and diesel fuel for farm machinery, were as much as six times higher than yields on farms that used little or no fertilizer, herbicides, or other inputs to grow a mixture of native prairie grasses.

Direct energy includes electricity, heating fuel and machinery fuel used in crop production, grain drying, animal and animal product production, poultry, transportation of farm products and personal energy use (e.g., heating farmhouse, driving to town).

Ways to reduce fossil fuel inputs to food systems include the use of farm machinery powered by renewable electricity or farm - produced biofuels; the localization of food systems to reduce transport (perhaps entailing vertical urban agriculture); the adoption of organic and ecological production practices to reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides; and an overall reduction in the consumption of highly processed foods.

In addition, fossil fuels are essential in the construction and the repair of equipment and infrastructure needed to facilitate this industry, including farm machinery, processing facilities, storage, ships, trucks and roads.

Industrial farms Gare fossil - fuel addicted places, from their reliance on fossil fuels for powering machinery to petroleum - based chemicals used to create artificial soil fertility, protect against pests, and stave off weeds.