Sentences with phrase «grain harvest used»

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.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, an all - important piece of machinery used to harvest grain crops on Niemeyer's farm — the combine — broke.

While the definition of στάχυς stachus, ear (as in grain) in 6.1 does not specify whether the fields were of barley (harvested around Passover) or wheat (harvested around Shavuot), Louw & Nida and Myers state that stachus was always used in the New Testament to indicate wheat.

Corn is increasingly being used to convert into ethanol in the U.S. and in high demand in China where it it used to feed into the meat industry, and it has yet to be seen how this year's significant loss in harvest will impact grain use across the globe.

Peggy is also currently working with the Alabama Agriculture Commissioner and the Agriculture Department at Alabama's Auburn University to create an organic farmer's co-op, in an effort to encourage local farmers to plant and harvest organic grains that To Your Health can use.

A: «Certified organically grown» assures you the grains have been grown and processed without the use of spray fertilizers, chemicals or pesticides and the land (where the grains were grown), has not been sprayed for at least 3 years (including current year's harvest).

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.

I used all King Arthur products (flour, harvest grains blend, powdered milk, and bread improver.)

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

Today, the truRoots team maintains strong relationships with farmers from around the world to source only the highest quality grains, beans and seeds — all of which are harvested using certified organic standards and time - honored traditions.

I used one of my favorite items from Trader Joe's: the harvest grain blend.

Moreover, unlike grain corn which can be stored prior to use, sweet corn must be processed and preserved immediately after harvest,» Williams explains.

Using power harvested from ambient light with a tiny solar cell — roughly the size of a grain of rice — the device was able to communicate with a base station that was 50 feet away.

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.

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

The blood type O individuals of these early populations would not fare well in today's world of processed foods, harvested grains and dairy products because that is not what their bodies were designed to use as fuel.

Oats are grains from the cereal plant, Avena Sativa, and once harvested are processed for use in animal feed, skin products or food.

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....

Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., who published a paper on the mounting use of glyphosate, says the practice of spraying glyphosate on wheat and other cereal grains prior to harvest, known as desiccating, began in Scotland in the 1980s.

The two protagonists in the film are a reaper machine, used for harvesting grain, which is given Frankenstein - like characteristics, and a mechanic who cares for and repairs it.

He documents the mechanistic progression of a combined reaper, a machine used for harvesting grain which is given Frankenstein - like characteristics.

Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).

Between 2005 and 2011, the grain used to produce fuel for cars climbed from 41 million to 127 million tons — nearly a third of the U.S. grain harvest.

«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.

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Chapter 2 Data: Population Pressure: Land and Water (XLS PDF Highlights) World Grain Production and Consumption, 1960 - 2009 World Grain Consumption and Stocks, 1960 - 2009 Wheat - Oil Exchange Rate, 1950 - 2008 Wheat Production in Saudi Arabia, 1960 - 2009, with Projection to 2016 Grain Harvested Area Per Person in Selected Countries and the World in 1950 and 2000, with Projection to 2050 U.S. Corn Production and Use for Fuel Ethanol, 1980 - 2009 Countries Overpumping Aquifers in 2009 World Irrigated Area and Irrigated Area Per Thousand People, 1950 - 2007 World Population of Cattle, Sheep, and Goats, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Africa, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Nigeria, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in China, 1961 - 2007 World Total and Per Person Wild Fish Harvest, 1950 - 2007 Top of Page

The spread of these highly productive seeds, combined with a tripling of irrigated area and an 11-fold increase in world fertilizer use, tripled the world grain harvest.