Sentences with phrase «grain crop as»

And on the world - food security front, ARS» Stuttgart center is closing in on genes that regulate rice's uptake and storage of iron, thiamine and other important vitamins and minerals — a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world's population.

Not exact matches

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

On the flip side, agriculture - linked funds were again some of the best - performing ETFs this past week, as the commodities markets continued to rally on deteriorating crop yield prospects due to the ongoing droughtlike weather across the U.S. grain belt.

Just as we can not restrict our sowing to what we judge to be good soil, or expect all that we sow to be productive, so while the crop is growing we must not try to separate the grain and the weeds.

In the midland region of Travancore and in highlands to the east, they worked as farm hands raising paddy, tapicoa and cash crops while in the paddy fields of the west coast they were ploughers of the soil, sowers of seeds, transplanters of seedlings, removers of weeds, irrigators, harvesters, dryers of grain and loaders into the wooden storage space.

Although the Spanish tried to introduce cultivation of other grains, such as barley, in the long run native crops like quinoa stayed popular for their drought - resistant nature, suited to these regions.

While soybeans and corn are the main cash grain crops being tested in this project, we are also testing a variety of other agricultural enterprises, such as vegetable production, orchards and pastures.

However, it is less well - known that glyphosate is also applied to non-GMO crops, specifically grains such as wheat and oats.

The nation's biggest grains exporter, CBH Group, is showering its 4100 farmer - owners with cash as bumper crops in Western Australia boost profits.

DAF's great strengths as a primary treatment include relative simplicity in installation and proven cost - efficiency in separating oil and suspended solids from wastewater in applications as diverse as dairy, beef, pork poultry, grains, cereals and crops such as beets, cassava, potatoes, soy, wheat, corn and sugar cane.

Farmers are tipped to harvest a record winter crop as growers will increase grain production for the first time in nearly a decade.

Supply shortages still crop up, especially for those ingredients in the organic market that take longer to establish supplies for — such as grains and produce.

I know sorghum flour crops up in gluten - free baking — but have you ever tried cooking it whole as a grain before?

The technologies are particularly effective for industries such as red meat, poultry, dairy, brewery, canning, paper and packaging, food processing and agribusiness processing including many of the world's most important crops, including fruit, cane, grain, maize, yams, sorghum, potatoes, beans and cassava

The rice crop has become more sustainable over the past few years, due to 100 % crop utilization and the development of new functional ingredients from this «simple» grain: * Rice hulls — Used to replace silicon dioxide and to function as a flavor carrier.

«Imagine re-educating the nation and utilising the two major crops of Aboriginal Australia: yams (as well as other root vegetables) and grains.

Sadly, 95 % of all corn is GMO and wheat is a stored grain and both of these crops are prone to mycotoxins like mold and fungus from storage facilities as the production is so massive.

You may know them as the seeds that sprout on those cute terracotta Ch - ch - ch - chia Pets, but they're actually an ancient grain that's been a staple food crop in Central and South America for thousands of years.

«Optimising rice processing is also important for farmers and industry as grain breakage during milling can cause crop value to plummet to as little as one per cent, something parboiling can help to avoid.»

«Since winter wheat is widely grown as a forage crop or cash crop for grain, seed is readily available, making it a popular choice as a cover crop,» he said.

Climate change and soil degradation are depleting the nutrients in crops, but now a scanner can analyse grain to help farmers mitigate problems as it grows

In this baseline diet, roughly 80 percent of available cropland was used to grow crops for animal feed, such as hay, while the other 20 percent was devoted to fruits, vegetables and grains for human consumption.

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.

And while the ancient grains contained high amounts of protein, the quality of the protein was not as good as in the modern crops.

They also found that the ancient grain crops did not yield as much as the common bread and durum wheat crops.

«As crops like rice or wheat turn from green to golden before harvest, chloroplasts are consumed, then nutrients are released and recycled to produce grains as a result of aginAs crops like rice or wheat turn from green to golden before harvest, chloroplasts are consumed, then nutrients are released and recycled to produce grains as a result of aginas a result of aging.

While both can be obtained from petroleum or natural gas, ethanol may be the most interesting because many believe it to be a renewable resource, easily obtained from sugar or starch in crops and other agricultural produce such as grain, sugarcane or even lactose.

Farmers in the Great Plains of Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and the panhandle of Texas produce about one - sixth of the world's grain, and water for these crops comes from the High Plains Aquifer — often known as the Ogallala Aquifer — the single greatest source of groundwater in North America.

The principle crops in the region uncovered include cereals such as corn, rice, and spring wheat in a region known to be the main grain area of China (26)[Fig. 1, with brown dots in denoting at least 50 % total coverage by crops according to the land cover type yearly climate modeling grid (CMG) datasets with 0.05 ° resolution from the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).].

This concept will be further tested in grain crops; such as canola, corn and rice.

As with grains, no Montana - specific, peer - reviewed literature exists regarding climate change effects for any of these crops.

The connections to irrigation practices and global grain supplies, to Conservation Reserve Program land, to cover - cropping practices, and to fire risks alluded to in this section and elsewhere in this assessment are all reminders that the interdependence of livestock and crop agriculture will likely loom large as Montana experiences the cumulative effects of climate change.

LAC has unique pests and diseases, as well as distinct grain types and cropping systems.

The Land Institute's work, led by a team of plant breeders and ecologists in multiple partnerships worldwide, is focused on developing perennial grains, pulses and oilseed bearing plants to be grown in ecologically intensified, diverse crop mixtures known as perennial polycultures.

These crops are often eaten by animals, so their protection lies in the ability of their seeds (the «grain» itself) to pass through the animal and emerge on the other side as a pre-fertilized seed, ready to grow.

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

However, as populations stabilized, cereal grains became popular crops again, fueling an artificial population growth in which the birth rate soared, but populations suffered from higher disease rates and became subject to absolutist governments.

Avoid eating large, concentrated quantities of the seed - based crops of the Agricultural Age, such as grains (wheat, corn, barley, oats) and legumes (soy, beans, peanuts).

«Hogging down» or direct grazing of grain crops was said to be not only more labor efficient but improved the soil as well.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

You will hear from many «purist» paleo eaters who advocate eating no grains whatsoever, as agricultural crop grains of today did not exist in the paleolithic era.

Although English life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their living off the land, either as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or herders (mostly sheep and goats).

She holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Marywood College, is co-owner of GJF Rental Properties as well as a livestock and grain crop farm.

I have had Cane Corso's for almost 10 yrs The first one I got had her ears cropped I admit I like the look but I will not put a dog through an Unnecessary surgery just to get a look I have had 3 dogs with ears intake for 6 yrs and I haven't had ear infections I clean my dogs ears on a regular basis Gook in ears are diet related Usually related to grain found in crappy dog food Like corn & wheat And yes cropped ears need to be cleaned too Also dogs with cropped ears hate the rain as it Gets in their ears easily I do believe in tail cropping if it's done before day 3 These dogs never stop wagging their tails & it really hurts when they hit you There was a reason the Italians did tails & ears It was to protect the dogs from the wild boar they were hunting Today it purely «the Look»

Grains are the seeds of grasses, called cereal crops, cultivated as food.

The Chitwan Valley is inhabited by numerous rural farming communities as the fertile land is ideal for grain and food crops, but it is the region's non-human inhabitants that provide a compelling reason to visit the area.

This offended the Spanish as a perversion of the eucharist and as a result, cultivation and production was suppressed and grain amaranth became a little grown crop until recently (Berghofer & Schoenlecher 2002; Plotkin 1988; Tucke 1986).

As the name of the project states, central to the task is stimulating the cultivation and local marketing of organically grown staple crops like beans and grains to provide a foundation for year - round food resources in the Willamette Valley.

All but the hardiest grain crops were destroyed, forcing farmers to kill their animals as they could not feed them.

Maize only became the dominant crop over small grains like millet and sorghum a century ago, as introduced by colonialists.