Sentences with phrase «grain harvest»

Since 1950, over 93 percent of world grain harvest growth has come from raising yields.

Yield is the mass of grain harvest per unit area harvested — in other words, the productivity of the crops on an area basis.

If the 2002 world grain harvest falls short of consumption when stocks are at a near - record low, prices will rise.

Then, a shift from a grain - based vegetarian diet to one rich in meat and milk led to greater diversion of the world's grain harvest into animal fodder.

The world's farmers are now essentially in a situation where a record grain harvest is needed each year just to keep up with the rise in demand.

Though oats are inherently gluten - free, they may endure cross contamination from other gluten - containing grains harvested nearby and / or processed using the same equipment.

This year's organic grain harvest has just begun and it is definitely shaping up to be the most challenging year in organic grain procurement for all organic growers.

Grain harvest started to wrap - up and cotton harvest was in full swing.

If the world were to have a poor grain harvest this year, there could well be chaos in world grain markets by late summer.

This presents an unprecedented geopolitical situation in which 1.3 billion Chinese consumers who have a $ 120 - billion trade surplus with the United States — enough to buy the entire U.S. grain harvest twice over — will compete with Americans for U.S. food, likely driving up food prices for the United States and the world.

Lester R. Brown, «Melting Mountain Glaciers Will Shrink Grain Harvests in China and India,» Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 20 March 2008).

It's estimated that Amaranth accounted for at least 50 % of the total grain harvested by the Aztecs.

For perspective, this drop of 70 million tons exceeds the entire grain harvest of Canada.

Technologic developments of the early and mid 19th century — such as the steam engine, mechanical reaper, and railroads — allowed for increased grain harvests and efficient transport of both grain and cattle, which in turn spawned the practice of feeding grain (corn primarily) to cattle sequestered in feedlots (66).

CBH Group has cut its estimate of Western Australia's grain harvest for the second time in five weeks, with the farmers» cooperative now tipping it will handle 12.5 million tonnes in the current season.

In China, combining winter wheat with corn as the summer crop in an annual cycle, plus the double cropping of rice, enables the country to produce the world's largest grain harvest on a relatively modest area of arable land.

But I have had the best grain harvests in the past two years that I have ever had despite the dry weather.»

My problem is partly the pacing, which moves so slowly, also one can only read so much about grain harvest, chaff and pigs also I am not sure I liked the ending.

In 2002, record - high temperatures and drought reduced grain harvests in India, the United States, and Canada, dropping the world harvest 90 million tons, or 5 percent below consumption.

Over the last decade, Lesotho's grain harvest dropped by half as its soil fertility fell.

At the same time, North Korea, largely deforested and suffering from flood - induced soil erosion and land degradation, has watched its yearly grain harvest fall from a peak of almost 6 million tons during the 1980s to scarcely 3 million tons per year today.

Iran, a country of 71 million people, is over-pumping its aquifers by an average of 5 billion tons of water per year, the water equivalent of one - third of its annual grain harvest.

Indeed, the tripling in the world grain harvest since 1950 is due in part to impressive increases in multiple cropping in Asia.

This helps explain why the share of the world grain harvest used for feed has not increased over the last 20 years even though production of meat, milk, eggs, and farmed fish has climbed.

With the U.N. - affililated Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) already warning of declining grain harvests due to extreme weather, a U.S. study released last week suggests that global warming could cause world agricultural systems to face possible collapse by 2080, with countries in the south being the hardest hit.

At the heart of the unrest were starvation and famine in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, where grain harvests were critically dependent on annual flooding of fertile plains by the East African monsoon.

Longer growing seasons, less irrigation water, earlier grain harvests, lilacs in the farmyard blooming ahead of «normal,» and hayfields that «don't produce like they used to,» are conveying a consistent long - term message, even when prices, net revenues, and other measures of the farm economy are variable.

From the beginning of agriculture until the mid-twentieth century, growth in the world grain harvest came almost entirely from expanding the cultivated area.

Thus any attempt to expand the world grain harvest enough to rebuild depleted world grain stocks starts with reversing the decline in China.

The world grain harvest quadrupled during the last century.

It accounted for virtually all of the world grain harvest shortfalls in 2000 and 2001.

With 60 percent of the world's grain harvest produced on irrigated land, anything that reduces the irrigation water supply reduces the food supply.

«Even an ordinary staple grain harvest could feed, on the average, ten times as many people as the same area used by shifting farmers,» Smil notes.

Their sources include church records, commissions of inquiries into glacier disasters, taxes on farms affected by glaciers, town records, population records, illustrations and lithographs, observations by travellers and scientists, scientific papers, historic articles on glaciers from contemporary sources in English, French, German and Italian, correlation with wine and grain harvest dates, alpine clubs, mountaineers and tree line / plant growth records amongst other sources.

Crop - withering heat waves have lowered grain harvests in key food - producing regions in recent years.

There, attendees helped with the einkorn grain harvest, and made a visit to the area's thousand - year - old castle, which is now a Young Living visitor center.

The combination of population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of one third of the U.S. grain harvest into ethanol to fuel cars is expanding the world demand for grain by a record 43 million tons per year, double the annual growth of a decade ago.

Ohio State University agronomist Rattan Lal estimates that soil erosion has reduced Africa's grain harvest by 8 million tons, or roughly 8 percent.

Once the fields were planted and growing, researchers studied the height of the plants in the fields, the amount of grain harvested from each crop, and the amount and quality of protein contained in the grains, among other things.

Suddenly investments in U.S. corn - based ethanol distilleries became hugely profitable, unleashing an investment frenzy that will convert one fourth of the 2009 U.S. grain harvest into fuel for cars.

Predictions of a second year of record grain harvests in the U.S. should seem like a cause for celebration.

North Korea, largely deforested and suffering from flood - induced soil erosion and land degradation, has watched its yearly grain harvest fall from a peak of more than 5 million tons during the 1980s to scarcely 3.5 million tons during the first decade of this century.

The decision in May 2009 to raise U.S. auto fuel efficiency standards 40 percent by 2016 will reduce U.S. dependence on oil far more than converting the country's entire grain harvest into ethanol could.