Sentences with phrase «growing oilseed»

A cooperative study by the USDA - ARS and Washington State University researched the effects of growing oilseed crops — camelina and safflower — on blowing dust emissions.

A recent study published in Agronomy Journal provides information important to farmers growing oilseed crops.

However, growing oilseeds requires optimal soil conditions, which may lead to forest clearance to make room for suitable agricultural fields.

Not exact matches

With no sign of grain and oilseed prices falling, farmers have an embarrassment of choices to make in the coming years over what crops to grow.

We've seen how supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs hurts a) consumers through artificially high prices; b) food processors (and the jobs they could be creating in Canada) because of their inability to compete internationally; c) exporters of all kinds looking for more international trade access, but which Canada is denied because of supply management; d) the majority of Canadian farmers (over 90 per cent)-- those who grow and produce beef, pork, grains, oilseeds, pulses, and who are not supply managed — who would also benefit from more international trade access; and finally e) most ironically, dairy farmers themselves, also prevented from exploiting international growth opportunities.

If you look at production forecasts for oilseeds — where exports could exceed 3.5 million barrels per day by 2020 — as well as U.S. production in the Bakken — watch this animation to get a feel for how fast that's growing — then there's definitely a market for significant new pipeline capacity.

Compared to fields growing conventional crops, those planted with GM varieties of beet and oilseed rape (canola) have fewer weeds — which is a goal of genetic engineering.

The Land Institute's work, led by a team of plant breeders and ecologists in multiple partnerships worldwide, is focused on developing perennial grains, pulses and oilseed bearing plants to be grown in ecologically intensified, diverse crop mixtures known as perennial polycultures.

In the fields, rice or corn and pulses are grown during the rainy season; legumes and oilseeds are the main focus in winter.

Instead, a $ 20 billion industry has grown up around the cultivation of soybeans as an «oilseed» crop that can be traded alongside of other interchangeable commodities like rapeseed, sunflowerseed, and cottonseed.

Experiments in Quebec found that soybeans, a major legume oilseed crop in eastern Canada, produced lower nitrous oxide emissions than corn, the major cereal crop grown in the eastern region.

Grown for its versatile fiber and oilseed, which can be used to make rope, paper, building materials, bio-fuels, cosmetics, healthy food and body care products, textiles, plastic composites, and much more hemp was once a paramount crop of Kentucky cultivated in the state as recently as the 1950's, but was permanently banned in 1970 as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

However, despite state authorization to grow hemp, farmers in these states still risk raids by federal agents, prison time, and property and asset forfeiture if they plant the crop, due to the failure of federal policy to distinguish non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis (i.e., industrial hemp) from psychoactive drug varieties.

However, despite state authorization to grow hemp, farmers in these states still risk raids by federal agents, prison time and property forfeiture if they plant the crop, due to the failure of federal policy to distinguish non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis (i.e., industrial hemp) from psychoactive drug varieties.

The (insert organization name) urges Congress to pass the Industrial Hemp Farming Acts (S. 359 and H.R. 525) to differentiate non-drug industrial hemp, the low - THC oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, and marijuana to allow American farmers to once again grow industrial hemp under state law.

The question before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals will be whether or not federal authorities can prosecute state - licensed farmers who grow non-drug oilseed and fiber hemp pursuant to North Dakota state law.

Originally introduced by Representatives Jared Polis (D - CO), Thomas Massie (R - KY) and Earl Blumenauer (D - OR), the amendment allows State Agriculture Departments, colleges and universities to grow hemp, defined as the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, for academic or agricultural research purposes, but it applies only to states where industrial hemp farming is already legal under state law.

However, despite state authorization to grow hemp, farmers in these states risk raids by federal agents and possible forfeiture of their farms if they plant the crop, due to the failure of federal policy to distinguish oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis (i.e., industrial hemp) from psychoactive drug varieties.

However, despite state authorization to grow hemp, farmers in those states risk raids by federal agents if they plant the crop, due to the failure of federal policy to distinguish oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis (i.e., industrial hemp) from psychoactive varieties (i.e., marihuana).

The question before the U.S. District Court will be whether or not federal authorities can prosecute state - licensed farmers who grow non-drug oilseed and fiber hemp pursuant to North Dakota state law.

Grown for its versatile fiber and oilseed, which can be used to make rope, paper, building materials, bio-fuels, cosmetics, healthy food, body care products, textiles, plastic composites, and much more, hemp was once a paramount crop of Kentucky cultivated in the state as recently as the 1950's, but was permanently banned in 1970 as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

However, despite state authorization to grow hemp, farmers in those states risk raids by federal agents if they plant the crop outside the parameters of Section 7606 of the recent Farm Bill, due to failure of federal policy to distinguish oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis (i.e. industrial hemp) from psychoactive varieties (i.e. marihuana.)

4-41-01, 02 NDCC; 4-09-01 NDCC 1999): Authorizes the production of industrial hemp; recognizes industrial hemp as an oilseed; requires any person desiring to grow industrial hemp to apply for a license; allows for the supervision of the industrial hemp during its growth and harvest.