Sentences with phrase «large conventional farms»

Not exact matches

The challenges involved in meeting USDA's strong pasture standard implemented in 2011 may dampen the movement to large - scale dairy farms seen in conventional dairy production.

The largest size group for conventional production — 1,000 cows or more — represented 2 % of conventional dairy farms and had 32 % of total milk production in 2005 (Table 1).

The trend toward larger farms in conventional dairy production was evident in the five years between the two USDA organic surveys.

In 2010, the largest group contained 3 % of conventional farms in 2010 representing 41 % of total production.

There is much debate over the relative merits of conventional farming, which has a large environmental impact on the land it uses, and organic farming, which may require greater land use for the same yield.

Organic food company Cascadian Farm and parent company General Mills have announced a five - year, $ 125,000 contribution to Grain Millers, one of the world's largest conventional and organic oat millers, to support soil health research in the Upper Midwest.

And Cornell University researcher David Pimentel found that organic farms use 63 percent of the energy used by same - size conventional farms, which rely on large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer produced synthetically with large amounts of energy.

In contrast, on conventional monoculture farms with large swaths of a single crop the wild bees barely made a dent.

Should the results be positive, they can be implemented on all cattle farms, conventional and organic, so there is a really large potential.»

However, in most parts of the world, conventional dairying is associated with high levels of grain feeding, the use of cow breeds which produce high milk volumes, and the application of large amounts of fertilizer («high input» farming), while organic dairying is tied to pasture and forage feeding, lower amounts of fertilizer application, and the use of mixed or minority breeds («low input»).

Building that four megawatts at a time — the capacity of the largest wind turbines currently made — would mean building 125,000 of these giant windmills across the country, along with hundreds of gigawatts of additional conventional plants to serve as a backup reserve for the wind farms.