Sentences with phrase «grain crops because»

JG: I think ultimately they could be more productive than our annual grain crops because they are able to capture more sunlight, water and nutrients.

Not exact matches

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.

This is because harmful herbicides like Roundup are sprayed on whole grain crops like wheat.

This is quite alarming, because it means all crops are suspect, not just grains.

Most of the grains we are consuming now are likely tainted with GMOs in some way because Monsanto and other seed companies have test plots for these crops everywhere and contamination is eminent.

- Amaranth, buckwheat, chia, millet, quinoa, sorghum, kamut, einkorn, spelt and teff (which are sometimes called «ancient grains» because each was an important food source for ancient civilizations, and although not 100 % gluten - free, are much lower or non-existent in gliadin content compared to modified, high - yield wheat crops).

I hope EL Nino does break our drought because rain falling on the desert instead of the remaining topsoil in the dried up Murry - Darling basin isn't going to feed anyone (I think we are around the 4th largest grain exporter, a 62 % reduction in our grain crop equals a loss of ~ 17,000,000 tons).

The potential use of plant - based sources of energy is limited because even corn — the most efficient of the grain crops — can convert just 0.5 percent of solar energy into a usable form.

Documentary evidence include: Kings writing to the Egytian court requesting relief supplies of grain, and the E.Court replying, they can not because their crops have failed, that the Nile has failed, and stores of grain inadequate for themselves.