Sentences with phrase «grain harvested by»

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

The move harnessed the energy and ingenuity of China's rural population, raising the grain harvest by half from 1977 to 1986.

«In 2012 the drought in Russia cut the grain harvest by nearly 25 %, in Pakistan the devastating 2010 flood destroyed over 570,000 hectares of crop land and affected more than 20m people.

Not exact matches

Just heat it up and you're in for a big ol' bowl of organic temptation brought to you by whole - grain quinoa, navy beans, carrots, cumin, and hand - harvested kale.

Unlike most grains, this grain is traditionally grown on small paddies and harvested by hand — just as it has been for centuries.

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.

It has been a tougher year for grain growers, who are most of the way through harvesting the winter crop which is down by 35 - 40 per cent on the record result in 2016.

Wild rice is actually not a grain but the seed of an aquatic plant that has been harvested for hundreds of years by Native Americans in the Northwest and upper Midwest.

The fields and all harvesting equipment is inspected by Gluten Free Oats and the Wyoming Seed Certification Service to assure they are free of the offending grains.

There is also an issue of cross contamination, where oats may be contaminated by other gluten containing grains with which they are grown, harvested, processed or stored.

The group of interdisciplinary researchers from the University's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, analysed the complete process from growing and harvesting the wheat; milling the grain; producing the flour; baking the bread and the production of the final product, ready to be sold by retailers.

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.

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.

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....

By 2025 water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvesBy 2025 water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvesby more than the current U.S. grain harvest.

The futures market was originally established to help farmers and grain merchants manage the price swings imposed by supply and demand through the seasonal cycles of planting, growing, and harvest.

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

In 2004 China's improved grain harvest, lifted by a substantial rise in the rice support price and unusually favorable weather, was expected to regain 21 million of the 70 - million - ton - drop of the preceding five years.

If world grain demand continues to grow during this coming year at the 16 - million - ton - per - year pace of the last decade, then the 2002 harvest will have to jump by 70 million tons to avoid a further drawdown in stocks.

«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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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.

Moreover, the presence of these plant parts among pieces of charred and uncharred dung indicate that the barley may have been eaten by the livestock, which perhaps were allowed to graze on harvested fields or were fed grains and harvesting waste.»

I live in north Texas and I am literally surrounded by farms that raise corn, milo, and animal feed grain (short cycle, prone to at least two harvests per year.)

Indeed, the harvested area for «coarse grains» fell by 4 % as corn, with an average yield of 150 bushels per acre, replaced other feed grains such as sorghum (averaging 60 bushels per acre).

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

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.

By early 2008 Lowe had signed up 180 members who each had committed $ 100 to receive 100 pounds of grain come harvest.

Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce one ton of grain, the shortfall in the Hai basin of nearly 40 billion tons of water per year (1 ton equals 1 cubic meter) means that when the aquifer is depleted, the grain harvest will drop by 40 million tons — enough to feed 120 million Chinese.

Between 1950 and 1990, world grain yield per hectare climbed by 2.1 percent a year, ensuring rapid growth in the world grain harvest.

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.

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.