Sentences with phrase «of plants on land»

Today spore - bearing plants make up only 3 percent of all plants on land.
The girls have a tree house and know almost all the names of the plants on our land.

Not exact matches

Before 2009, there were no solar farms and only a handful of wind and geothermal plants on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The agreement would allow the purchase or lease of land that will enable the Haisla to work with the industry to develop both the plant and an export terminal on Douglas Channel.
From there, they landed on the idea of using plants to replace eggs.
Strobel is in talks with the federal government to open a processing plant on Department of Fisheries and Oceans land, and has already tapped back into the SheEO network for more investments.
The sharecropper would clear and farm the land and leave it planted with grass before moving on in search of more land; the campesino's function from the sixties on, then, basically has been that of «increasing the value of land that will later be occupied by the big cattlemen» (Slutsky, 100).
all land plants would be damaged or destroyed, temperatures [would] plummet for several months,... All biological life on planet earth would be gravely threatened» (p. 7) We hold the powers of life and death within our hands, declare the bishops.
This story will go on for ever until the date life ends on Earth... this ever lasting conflict was planted there because ever since it started it created jobs for war arms manufacturers, it has created good business revenue for war and arms lords, made a good business for those con - fis - cat - ing Palestinians lands & olive trees, turning them in to residential areas for imported Jews, gradually removing Palestinians of all faiths further out of range every time...?
Religion News Service: Religious groups vie for Internet domain names Religious groups have long vied for prime parcels of land, planting churches on town squares and monasteries amid isolated mountains.
If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the expansion of deserts, the loss of plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a scale that has no precedent...» 7
4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.
Now Spaniards conquered a large portion of the Americas, including the West Indies and the Philippines, and became the ruling classes in these lands; the Portuguese established themselves in a similar position in Brazil and sprinkled themselves along the coasts of Africa and here and there on the shores of India, in the East Indies and in Malacca and Macao; the French planted colonies in parts of North America and the West Indies; the Dutch, with an intermingling of French Huguenots, began a permanent colony in South Africa, and Dutch.
Of all the plant material produced on land each year in the world, humans use 40 per cent.
The writer seems to be saying that animal life, whether on land or in the sea, is more marvelous than mere plant life, and, although issuing from the womb of the earth and from the waters, required a special operation of God to bring it about.
Now starting form verse 7 of chapter 2 God describes how he created man and then on verse 8 GOD plants a garden (Eden) in earth and THIS IS IMPORTANT — God puts man in the garden that he creates and not outside the garden (which is the remaining dry land).
Cox is a research coordinator and senior scientist at The Land Institute where he focuses on sorghum, a genus of plants in the grass family.
He judges by looks as well as flavor, planting his most beautiful discoveries on two acres of land by his house in Napa.
The new plant is located on a 200 acre site of agricultural and industrial land.
The plans to expand an existing dairy on Loch - Kernot Road include the construction of a bottling plant, storage facility, a feed - pad barn to house 1,000 dairy cows, and an effluent treatment plant on prime agricultural land.
«With this plant - first collection, I take you on my vegetable adventures, in which I dig deep into what makes this land of abundance so delicious,» said O'Donnel.
It places considerable emphasis on soil and plant research because of the strengths in these areas on the Waite and Roseworthy Campuses which house the Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences of the University of Adelaide, the CSIRO Land & Water and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI).
In the early 2000s Murrin Bridge Vineyard, on Wiradjuri land in the Riverina in NSW, became the first Indigenous - owned wine business in Australia when it released the inaugural vintages of chardonnay and shiraz from vines planted in the late 1990s.
The new organic milk spray drying plant will be built at North Geelong in Victoria on land adjacent to an existing processing operation built in 2016 by the Organic Dairy Farmers of Australia, which operates at a site close to the former Ford engine plant.
Harvey Fresh started processing juice on 100 hectares of land in the farming community of Harvey, south of Perth, in 1986 and now runs a juice plant, a dairy factory and a winery for the Harvey River Bridge Estate and Joseph River labels.
William Wolfskill, a former trapper is credited with planting the first table grape vineyard on land just outside of present - day Los Angeles in 1839.
Cuba then began a system of participatory plant breeding whereby trials were conducted by farmers themselves on their own land in collaboration with researchers.
Comprised of carbon and hydrogen, in closed growing environments, like on a spacecraft or in a terrestrial greenhouse or a land - base perishable cooler, ethylene builds up rapidly and causes plants to mature too quickly.
The most common causes of non-contact ACL injury include change of direction or cutting maneuvers combined with sudden stopping; landing awkwardly from a jump; or pivoting with the knee nearly fully extended when the foot is planted on the ground.
Only 10 % of the chemicals and pesticides used in conventional cotton farming lands on the cotton crops, the rest gets into our plants, soil, water, air and eventually back into our systems.
The beautiful house in Manitoba, with acres of land to run around on and a bountiful garden that he watched us dig, till, plant, water, weed and harvest?
«Strawberry Farmer» is totally on my (very long) «What I Want to Be When I Grow Up (And Own Land)» list, but in the meantime, I'm grateful for the local farmers who grow them, and share with us (though the balance of supply and demand for organic, local, pick your own around here makes me a little nervous... and eager to get planting my own, with plenty to share).
«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;
A former official in the administration of ex-Republican Gov. George Pataki confirmed the fact that many governors have engaged in this practice, saying: «Planting staff in agency land been going on for decades.»
In his remarks, the Commissioner for Natural Resources, Mr. Rasheed Badmus, disclosed that the government had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Wewood Limited to plant the seedlings on 10,000 hectares of land while West African Plantation Limited would plant the remaining portion of the afforestation project.
Verderber's Nursery acquired 45 acres of land off Sound Avenue in Northville that will be used to plant nursery stock, including a variety of native plants that are already plentiful on the property.
Hr Hutton said: «Planning applications for new plants are likely to focus on areas in the vicinity of existing sites so it's welcome that the NDA is making its significant land and assets available to the market.»
The committee oversees construction issues of major facilities across Erie County; as well as issues concerning the Erie County Industrial Development Agency and Industrial Land Development Corporation; acts upon the repair and maintenance of county roads and bridges, general county infrastructure repair on buildings and other physical plant facilities; and discusses ideas concerning economic development, job creation and workforce development.
The call coincides with the announcement by the trust of a new acquisition in north Wales — a lovely piece of wildlife and archaeology - rich land on the Great Orme headland, home to rare butterflies, unique plants and nimble Kashmiri goats.
The Greenport Village Board of Trustees put off a vote Friday on a proposed lease with Global Common, the Garden City company looking to build a peak energy power plant on about three acres of village - owned land on Moore's Lane.
Skoufis describes himself as a leader in the fight against the Kiryas Joel Pipeline, attempts to annex Woodbury land into Kiryas Joel, and the expansion of the Harriman Sewer Treatment Plant for the benefit of Kiryas Joel and the Mountco Development on the former Camp LaGuardia Site.
The bill would ban fracking on county land, bar spraying fracking waste on county roads, and ban transportation of fracking waste to county - owned sewage treatment plants.
What's more, the rest of the crop — the vast black - market portion — is planted on public or tribal lands by people who ignore the environmental consequences of their activity.
Doing so would upend the states» traditional role as the main regulator of oil and gas on privately held land, and perhaps choke off the gas needed to clean up dirty power plants.
Planted Forests Project On the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, loggers, conservation biologists, and indigenous groups are coming together to test a new model of land use that gives everyone a piece of the pie.
In the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these indirect effects explain, on average, 28 per cent of the total plant productivity response, and are almost equal to the size of direct effects on evapotranspiration (ET)-- the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the land to the atmosphere..
Now a new analysis is estimating the pace of species movement because of both climate change and land use, revealing new pressures that stem from local decisions to build, plant and cut on the warming landscape.
And some Indian farmers in the state of Bihar have begun to plant hybrid rice strains because they are drought - tolerant and can be planted on lands that were previously difficult to successfully cultivate.
The result: «The pollination of chilli plants is considerably better on the plots of land that are farmed in the traditional way, even when slash - and - burn practices are used,» says biologist Robert Paxton.
Throughout the tropics, families typically cultivate it for their own consumption on small parcels of land, although in Asia and in parts of Latin America the plant is also grown commercially for use in animal feed and starch - based products.
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