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.
They don't spare a single expense when it comes to sourcing the best ingredients — like
the grain harvested from a region up north known as the French Bread Basket.
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).
In addition to claiming nearly 56,000 lives, this heat wave reduced the Russian
grain harvest from nearly 100 million tons to 60 million tons.
Since expanding irrigation helped triple the world
grain harvest from 1950 to 2000, it comes as no surprise that water losses can shrink harvests.
Michael Ma, «Northern Cities Sinking as Water Table Falls,» South China Morning Post, 11 August 2001; share of China's
grain harvest from the North China Plain based on Hong Yang and Alexander Zehnder, «China's Regional Water Scarcity and Implications for Grain Supply and Trade,» Environment and Planning A, vol.
Not exact matches
«Then at the end of the season — the
harvest — you know how much
grain comes
from each part of the field.
In preparation for wheat
harvest, growers are reminded to be prepared to take steps to help insure they achieve the best quality
grain possible
from their crop... read more
Both Paul ’10 and John the Evangelist11 draw an object lesson
from the
grain of wheat which is sown in the ground and they emphasize the fact that it is only when it falls into the ground and dies that it brings forth a
harvest.
In the plant world food was chosen first
from wild edible
grains and fruits of nature, and then was systematically planted, cultivated, and
harvested.
1Co 9:11 If it is we who sowed the spiritual
grain in you, is it a great thing that we should reap a temporal
harvest from you?
But a Jewish friend told me something about how during Passover, they can only eat flour and
grain from the previous year... nothing that has been newly
harvested.
The
grains have been
harvested from... Continued
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.
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.
Fall's
harvest is rich in sugars
from fruit and starchy carbs
from root veggies and
grains.
We talk a lot about cooking times on this site, and as with most
grains (or
grain - like ingredients), cooking time can vary greatly
from rice to rice depending on the type of wild rice you buy, when it was
harvested, and so on - so keep that in mind as you go into any recipe that features wild rice.
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.
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.
«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 aging.
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.
Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) is a fungal disease that affects worldwide wheat production due to dramatic yield loss, and reduced
grain quality
from toxins that make
harvests unsuitable for consumption.
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....
Overall, PowerBar
Harvest is more of a nutrition bar than anything else with its nutritionally balanced 16 vitamins and minerals, and for the health conscientious, the
harvest bars are made
from natural whole
grains providing 4g of dietary fiber per bar.
It's this special, unique combination of 6
grains and legumes that
harvests benefits beyond what we normally expect
from our breads, pastas, cereals, and other foods.
Handcrafted
from sustainably
harvested wood, each piece in the Acacia Collection reveals the natural beauty of the wood
grain.
You will find several areas on the map that will allow you to stock, transfer or sell your
grain and wood
harvests directly
from trains.
With no man to
harvest the fields that summer, we received little
grain from my father's share of the planting, although his friends tried to be generous with theirs.
In the wild, sulphur - crested cockatoos feast on seeds,
grain, and insects that they
harvest from trees.
Pearl Millet — Millet is a gluten - free
grain that is
harvested from a certain type of seed grass.
Between 1950 and 1973 the world's farmers doubled the
grain harvest, nearly all of it
from raising yields.
From the beginning of agriculture until the mid-twentieth century, growth in the world grain harvest came almost entirely from expanding the cultivated a
From the beginning of agriculture until the mid-twentieth century, growth in the world
grain harvest came almost entirely
from expanding the cultivated a
from expanding the cultivated area.
The fall in China's
grain harvest is due largely to a shrinkage of the
grain harvested area
from 90 million hectares in 1998 to 76 million hectares in 2003.
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.
Click here to view the most recent
Grain Harvest Indicator and Data The 2001 world grain harvest of 1,853 million tons was up 1 percent from the 2000 harvest, but below the all - time high of 1,880 million tons in
Grain Harvest Indicator and Data The 2001 world
grain harvest of 1,853 million tons was up 1 percent from the 2000 harvest, but below the all - time high of 1,880 million tons in
grain harvest of 1,853 million tons was up 1 percent
from the 2000
harvest, but below the all - time high of 1,880 million tons in 1997.
The
grain harvest increased
from 139 tons to 219 tons.
These trends are combining with economic developments — including the lowering of
grain support prices in recent years, the rising wages in off - farm employment that pull labor
from agriculture, and the shift to more intensive cropping, such as vegetable production, to reduce China's
grain harvest.
In addition to direct crop damage
from increasingly intense precipitation events, wet springs can delay planting for
grain and vegetables in New York, for example, and subsequently delay
harvest dates and reduce yields.67 This is an issue for agriculture nationally, 65 but is particularly acute for the Northeast, where heavy rainfall events have increased more than in any other region of the country (Ch.
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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.
Since the mid-twentieth century, the world
grain harvest has nearly quadrupled, with most of this growth coming
from the tripling of the
grain yield per acre.
Just when it seemed that things could not get much worse, the United States, the world's breadbasket, is planning to double the share of its
grain harvest going to fuel ethanol —
from 16 percent of the 2006 crop to 30 percent or so of the 2008 crop.
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.
The move harnessed the energy and ingenuity of China's rural population, raising the
grain harvest by half
from 1977 to 1986.
One key to the threefold expansion in the world
grain harvest since 1950 was the rapid adoption in some developing countries of high - yielding wheats and rices (originally developed in Japan) and hybrid corn (
from the United States).
A native of Central Montana, Dirk spent his formative years on a custom wheat
harvesting crew, travelling with the ripening
grain from Texas to the Canadian border.
Suar A fast - growing wood sustainably
harvested from the limbs of trees grown for other purposes;
grain boasts rich, high - contrast tones for an artful appeal.
Since cork is
harvested from the bark of its host tree, the patterns of the
grain are very lively and arguably provide some of the most interesting
grain patterns in wood.