Sentences with phrase «in modern agriculture»

I've long suspected that food allergies can stem from reactions to the chemicals used in modern agriculture.

The main trigger of this bee mortality does not seem to be the use of pesticides in modern agriculture.

While many have been fed through advances in modern agriculture that increases yields with petroleum - based fertilizer and toxic chemical pesticides, many have been harmed.

One of the Longin's goals is to evaluate the potential of old forgotten crops in modern agriculture.

For another, the more we conserve scarce and nonrenewable resources, such as the oil used so extensively in modern agriculture and elsewhere, the less pressure there will be to engage in an interventionist and imperialist foreign policy and the wars that follow from such a policy.

Besides enabling quantification of recovery rates of compacted soil and better understanding of the recovery mechanisms, the authors expect that data provided by the soil structure observatory will help improve our general understanding of soil structure dynamics and help define strategies and guidelines for accelerating soil structure recovery, and more generally, improving soil structure in modern agriculture.

Hydrogen is currently used to upgrade crude oil and synthesize ammonia, a critical building block of the fertilizers applied in modern agriculture.

Pollination using managed honeybees is a critical element in modern agriculture; more than 130 crops in the US require pollination, with an annual crop value of $ 15 billion.

The researchers attest the decline in nutrient values to soil depletion and the use of larger, higher yield crops in modern agriculture: crops grow so fast they are less able to manufacture nutrients or absorb them from the soil.

(See: Common Weedkiller Used in Modern Agriculture Could be Main Factor in Gluten Intolerance.)