Sentences with phrase «leading wheat and corn»

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Leading domestic export categories include: corn ($ 106 million), soybean meal ($ 88 million), rice ($ 71 million), wheat ($ 66 million), and pork & pork products ($ 48 million).

In addition to lactose and sugar alcohols (which are similar to carbs according to the author) I was surprised to see that the other malabsorbed carbohydrates leading to GERD are: fiber, fructose, and resistant starch containing a lot of amylose (e.g. most wheat, corn, oat, barley).

However, grains such as corn and wheat are among the leading dog food allergens.

Like humans, poor quality carbohydrates like processed wheat and corn aren't going to supply much energy, and excess carbs lead to weight gain.

This was the soybean's ticket to agricultural prominence, enabling it to join wheat, rice, and corn as one of the world's four leading crops.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

FGovernment support for industrial crop production has led to an increase in corn - and soy - fed animals, and increased production of «junk» foods that use corn (e.g., high fructose corn syrup), wheat, and soy as their base, ultimately contributing to the prevalence of health problems such as heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.

Kansas, the leading U.S. wheat - producing state, has used a combination of drought - resistant varieties in some areas and irrigation in others to expand corn planting to where the state now produces more corn than wheat.

The government quickly adopted several key production - boosting measures, including a 40 percent rise in the grain support price paid to farmers, an increase in agricultural credit, and heavy investment in developing higher - yielding strains of wheat, rice, and corn, their leading crops.