Sentences with phrase «of grain crops»

Food riots in several nations due to raising prices that are at least partially directly tied to diversion of grain crops to ethanol production.

The potential use of plant - based sources of energy is limited because even corn — the most efficient of the grain crops — can convert just 0.5 percent of solar energy into a usable form.

Searing heat caused at least half of the grain crops to be lost in the northern Great Plains states.

The melting of the Arctic ice will bring about changes that go way beyond the disastrous weather events we are seeing (and are clear to anyone looking down here in the South Pacific) but will lead to immediate increases in global temperatures which will make the large - scale growing of grain crops impossible.

«Hogging down» or direct grazing of grain crops was said to be not only more labor efficient but improved the soil as well.

Whole grains are the seeds of certain plants that come under the blanket term of grain crops.

The finding, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, solves a long - standing mystery and offers hope for production of grain crops able to thrive during unpredictable weather and climate change.

Despite years of effort, it has been remarkably difficult to develop efficient methods for transformation (i.e., genetic modification) of grain crops.

The result is a halving (down 62 %) of our grain crop due to lack of rain, a large chunk of fruit crops have died on the vine due to the unseasonal frost.

Not exact matches

Of all the crops grown in Canada, a perennial version of wheat makes the most sense, since the grain is Canada's top agricultural export — $ 2.8 billion of wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last yeaOf all the crops grown in Canada, a perennial version of wheat makes the most sense, since the grain is Canada's top agricultural export — $ 2.8 billion of wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last yeaof wheat makes the most sense, since the grain is Canada's top agricultural export — $ 2.8 billion of wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last yeaof wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last year.

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

For Jody Klassen of Mayerthorpe, Alta., northwest of Edmonton, high grain prices helped off set an average crop.

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.

Earlier this year, an all - important piece of machinery used to harvest grain crops on Niemeyer's farm — the combine — broke.

On the flip side, agriculture - linked funds were again some of the best - performing ETFs this past week, as the commodities markets continued to rally on deteriorating crop yield prospects due to the ongoing droughtlike weather across the U.S. grain belt.

After 1980, Chile did indeed begin to break up its large landholdings, but in a way dictated by Chicago monetarists emphasizing export crops wine and vegetables rather than grain to feed its population by a policy of import displacement.

The ale women who ran these «pubs» would then pay most of this grain to the palace for consignments advanced to them during the crop year.

According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), the total area planted to winter crops is forecast to be a record 19.2 million hectares in 2000/01, following good planting rains across most grain - growing areas in the eastern states.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty; to produce enough food for 9 billion people by 2050, we will need a more efficient system.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty.

In the midland region of Travancore and in highlands to the east, they worked as farm hands raising paddy, tapicoa and cash crops while in the paddy fields of the west coast they were ploughers of the soil, sowers of seeds, transplanters of seedlings, removers of weeds, irrigators, harvesters, dryers of grain and loaders into the wooden storage space.

(8) And We send down from the sky blessed water whereby We give growth unto gardens and the grain of crops, (9) And lofty date - palms with ranged clusters, (10) Provision (made) for men; and therewith We quicken a dead land.

Despite bumper crops, distribution of food grains continues to be faulty — almost 30 % of the food produced in the country is wasted.

The farm also has a small experimental orchard and research plots for grain, dry land vegetables, berries, and root crops, and a beautiful home which he helped his father build with a stunning view of the Bears Paw Mountains.

Although the Spanish tried to introduce cultivation of other grains, such as barley, in the long run native crops like quinoa stayed popular for their drought - resistant nature, suited to these regions.

However, options for reducing tillage in the mid-Atlantic region have been identified and tried, including: (1) rotating annual grain crops with perennial forages; (2) decreasing depth and degree of soil inversion (e.g. chisel... Continued

While soybeans and corn are the main cash grain crops being tested in this project, we are also testing a variety of other agricultural enterprises, such as vegetable production, orchards and pastures.

GRAIN researcher Ms Kartini Samon said that GM crops, and the enforcement of patent rights, leads to the criminalization of farmers» culture of saving, sharing and improving seeds.

Buckwheat bread — nutritious values and recipes Buckwheat is a plant similar to the rice grain and method of use, but much richer in protein and nutrients than other conventional crops.

Victorian grain grower Ross Johns said some farmers would consider storing and holding part of the crop.

And on the world - food security front, ARS» Stuttgart center is closing in on genes that regulate rice's uptake and storage of iron, thiamine and other important vitamins and minerals — a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world's population.

Other crops (besides grains) that Dr. Don Huber has stated use the practice of desiccating with glyphosate include: dry beans (chickpea, lupin, and faba), canola, field pea, flax, lentil, and soybeans.

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

In Tropical Traditions» own testing of organic grains so far, they found that barley has among the highest levels of glyphosate of the organic crops, and this corresponds to conventional crops where the EPA has raised the limits of glyphosate in barley to a higher level than other grains.

In the grain - growing areas we've had an average winter crop but some of the more western regions missed out through a combination of dry weather and frost,» he said.

The weakening dollar is offsetting declines in global grain prices on the back of a strong international crop and is a tailwind for Victoria's dairy farmers.

Such industries include red meat, poultry, dairy, brewery, canning, paper and packaging, food processing and agribusiness processing including many of the world's most important crops, including fruit, cane, grain, maize, yams, sorghum, potatoes, beans and cassava.

The technologies are particularly effective for industries such as red meat, poultry, dairy, brewery, canning, paper and packaging, food processing and agribusiness processing including many of the world's most important crops, including fruit, cane, grain, maize, yams, sorghum, potatoes, beans and cassava

The rice crop has become more sustainable over the past few years, due to 100 % crop utilization and the development of new functional ingredients from this «simple» grain: * Rice hulls — Used to replace silicon dioxide and to function as a flavor carrier.

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

Dry weather has been weighing on a number of companies, with east coast grains giant GrainCorp warning its earnings will again be pressured by a small crop.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

It has been a tougher year for grain growers, who are most of the way through harvesting the winter crop which is down by 35 - 40 per cent on the record result in 2016.

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

«Imagine re-educating the nation and utilising the two major crops of Aboriginal Australia: yams (as well as other root vegetables) and grains.

The FFS has now become a model approach for farmer education in Asia and many parts of Africa and Latin America, and has since been used with a wide range of crops including cotton, tea, coffee, cocoa, pepper, vegetables, small grains and legumes.

However, these crops comprise only 0.2 percent of the total United States cropped area in grains.

Sadly, 95 % of all corn is GMO and wheat is a stored grain and both of these crops are prone to mycotoxins like mold and fungus from storage facilities as the production is so massive.

You may know them as the seeds that sprout on those cute terracotta Ch - ch - ch - chia Pets, but they're actually an ancient grain that's been a staple food crop in Central and South America for thousands of years.