Sentences with phrase «growing on land»

The owner would be «seized of possession» and would immediately exercise the right of ownership by breaking the branch of a tree growing on the land or by turning the soil.
Organic Certification in the US requires growing on land that has no KNOWN prior history of persistent toxic exposure.
All the seller can do is sell the rights to the produce grown on the land.
Caused plants to grow on the land (self explanatory) 6.
Sustainable sourcing of soft commodities grown on the land discourages converting forests to cropland and encourages sustainable management of forests.
«It's a nonfood primary crop, can be grown on land that isn't being used, but it fits with existing farm infrastructure,» says CEO Tom Todaro of Targeted Growth.
These are also known as biofuels, i.e. plants that would otherwise potentially go to feed people (or grown on land that would otherwise grow food) going into gas tanks instead.
By making the crop more flood resistant, it could be grown on land prone to seasonal flooding that is not typically used for food crops.
Ignoring all the evidence that they grew on land, Carruthers declared the organism to be an enormous alga — a kind of seaweed, in other words.
The researchers conclude that restoring the full complement of native trees that once grew on the land would provide the best outcome for biodiversity.
And we would also need something that could grow on land that isn't being used intensively for food.
All of the large animals around Rothera rely on the ocean and particularly on krill as a basis for their diet; there is very little that grows on land.
Natural foods that are grown on the land, caught in the water or hunted.
It's a fantastical barrier reef grown on land, replete with seahorse - like hummingbirds, floating jellyfish, and a giant bat with an inflatable neck, and my hunter's been seriously injured several times because I got distracted by how pretty it all is.
It's very important to choose a reputable source that's non GMO, grown on land and watered with Atlantic ocean water that's been filtered for heavy metals — and no fillers!
But I don't see any really large - scale efforts to develop new feed crops that can be grown on land that can't be used for the current ones using salty water not currently considered suitable for agriculture.
After intense negotiations, most buyers of Amazon soybeans united in support of an Amazon agreement to purchase only the soy grown on land that had been cleared before 2006, pushing farmers to use existing farms more productively.
With the nature of GM seed once it's grown on land it is very difficult to 100 % remove so if the farmer wants to revert to traditional seed the future crop will still not be 100 % GM free.
Linden / Giessen is where one of the main series of the late Ernst Beck's 1942 «peak» in CO2 was based on: Further, land plants as usual grow on land, where CO2 levels are average 40 ppmv higher than background and even higher during inversion, giving at least a few hours of sufficient CO2 during ice ages.
[The conventional reasoning] double counts the carbon absorbed by plants when the bioenergy crops are grown on land already used for crop production or already growing other plants because the bioenergy does not necessarily result in additional carbon absorption.
«pays farmers more money for crops grown on land undergoing transition and helps them choose rotational crops they can sell to supplement their income; [and] General Mills recently signed a deal to help convert about 3,000 acres to organic production of alfalfa and other animal feeds.»

Not exact matches

Chances of getting hit are less than one in a trillion, reports CNBC's Morgan Brennan, with a look at the growing threat of space junk landing on the planet.
Grantham is also bullish on two particular asset classes — farmland and forestry — based on the simple argument that «they don't make any more of it» and we need land to grow food.
«It was just something that I was making in my kitchen because I didn't like sugar,» says Woolverton, whose company, Halo Top Creamery, has landed at No. 5 on Inc.'s 2017 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. «It wasn't until later, when I got an actual $ 20 ice cream maker, that I was like, «Oh, wow, there's something here.»»
His company — Domino's Pizza — grew so fast that it landed on the Inc 500 in 1983, at # 457.
A provider of Microsoft Azure Cloud and Microsoft custom software applications, Denver's second fastest - growing company, Phidiax, lands at number 317 on the Inc. 5000.
Today, DivaCup leads the category, having grown revenues more than 700 % in the last five years and landing at No. 103 on the PROFIT 500, our ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.
AlphaSights grew its sales by 680 percent between 2011 and 2014, and landed a spot on the 2015 Inc. 5000 Europe list (at No. 155).
If your sales people who go out and land new customers are considered hunters, growth here is the responsibility of your farmers — your people whose focus is on growing an existing customer relationship by, say, selling them new services, products, or even by expanding into a new division.
OTOC has further grown its presence on the east coast with the acquisition of a Sydney - based land surveying firm for $ 4 million in cash and shares.
When it bought Blackcomb Mountain, then just six years old and suffering growing pains, from a subsidiary of Aspen Skiing in 1986, it wasn't looking at the then state - of - the - art lifts so much as the developable land around the base of the hill, which bordered on the new Whistler Village.
Because higher prices for crops means farmers could make more on their land, many are using their growing profits to buy more land.
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Currently, Chicago hosts as many as 104 private companies on the Inc. 5000 (last year, it counted 95), landing second place on the list of Top Cities for Fast - Growing Companies.
And so most tipplers, TIAA - CREF customers included, may not realize they are consuming wines made with grapes grown on the fund's land — or even a wine a TIAA - CREF unit produced.
Since launching Bioastra in 2008, she's grown her business from a one - woman operation to a team of 17 whiz - bang inventor - types; together, they've increased sales by 906 % in the last five years, landing the business at No. 82 on the 2017 PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies.
That landed it at No. 1,840 on the Inc. 5000 in 2015, and made it the No. 1 company on the Women Presidents» Organization's list of fastest - growing companies in 2014.
Founded in 1999, the business grew quickly, landing a spot on the 2005 Inc. 500 list with $ 12.7 million in sales.
Like so many kids growing up at the time, his fascination with making the impossible possible started with the real - life sci - fi he saw on TV: the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.
The industry has landed on «clean meat,» after deciding that terms like «lab - grown meat,» «in vitro meat,» and «cultured meat» all have too much of an ick factor.
TORONTO (Reuters)- Canada's biggest licensed producer of medical marijuana has bought land next to its greenhouse production site that will allow it to more than double the total volume of cannabis it can grow, its chief executive said on Thursday.
VANCOUVER / COAST SALISH TERRITORY — With the province's new climate plan expected to land any day now, a coalition of British Columbia power producers, industry associations and environmental organizations is calling on the government to tackle B.C.'s growing carbon pollution problem.
the last thing canada needs is to grow more monsano gmo corn and soy, that will mean tons and tons of more chemicals sprayed on our land, gmo crops make people sick and that states can keep their poisons
«Not only do we now have the blessing of the Atakapa - Ishak Nation to carry on protecting the water on this land,» Foytlin told me after the couple drove off, «but we also have a growing list of neighbors who are ready to assist in the fight to stop the pipeline.»
There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).
While most softwood lumber producers get their logs from Crown lands, many companies in Atlantic Canada buy most of their logs from private woodlot owners at fair market value or grow them on their own land.
For hemp grown on irrigated land, the estimated yield was 1,679 lbs / acre at $ 0.74 per pound, earning $ 1,322 CDN / acre in gross returns; 64 % higher compared to dryland.
Growing pressures on the availability of industrial land will increasingly conflict with Greater Vancouver's role as a preferred gateway to Asia and the jobs and wealth this trade creates.
You seem to think that a fish decides to live on land and so grows lungs — no, it's a gradual adaption, either it lived near the shore and could tolerate a short time out of water or had a flotation device and adapted that, or some other scenario.
The kingdom of God is like this: A man scattered seed on the land; he goes to bed at night and gets up in the morning, and the seed sprouts and grows — how, he does not know.
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