Sentences with phrase «on corn crops»

And tariffs on corn crops could hit swing states in the Midwest like Iowa.

Not exact matches

the last thing canada needs is to grow more monsano gmo corn and soy, that will mean tons and tons of more chemicals sprayed on our land, gmo crops make people sick and that states can keep their poisons

With the US accounting for roughly 40 percent of global corn production, poor crops there have a dramatic impact on corn prices.

1928 editorial from the Wall Street Journal, «What America needs today is not Government controls, industrial expansion, or a bumper corn crop; America needs to return to the day when grandpa took the team out of the field in the early afternoon on Wednesday in order to hitch them to the old spring wagon which grandma put all the children after she washed their faces shining clean; and they drove off to prayer meeting in the little white church at the crossroads underneath the oak trees, where everyone believed the Bible, trusted Christ, and loved one another.»

Farming is done on a four - year rotation of potatoes, cover - crop rye, no - till corn, no - till wheat, and cover - crop sorghum Sudan grass to reduce soil erosion and disease.

Touching briefly on prices, USDA forecasts corn prices for the 2018 - 19 crop at an average of $ 3.40 a bushel (bu), up 10 cents from the latest projection for the 2017 - 18 crop, according to the February World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.

That is, they've operated for the last half - century on products built on a foundation of cheap, unhealthy, subsidized commodity crops like soybeans and corn.

We support The World Cocoa Foundation's Cocoa Livelihoods Program, which is pioneering community programs that focus on education and training around crop diversification through food crops, such as cassava, yams, plantains, bananas, and corn.

The biggest food manufacturers in the world are also putting aside corn ingredients based on the public outcry about GMO - infestation of this crop.

NEBRASKA CITY, Nebraska, Aug 20 (Reuters)- The Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour on Tuesday projected Nebraska's average corn yield at 154.9 bushels per acre, up from a drought - reduced 131.8 bpa last year and the tour's three - year average of 147.9 bpa for the country's No. 3 corn producing state.

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters)- The most extensive drought in five decades has left corn plants withered and dying, and crop yields in the largest producing states will be much lower than experts have forecast, scouts said on Friday as they completed a U.S. Midwest crop tour.

The U.S. is drunk on ethanol — but whether it is made from corn or sugarcane, the crop - derived biofuel raises a host of questions

Planning meetings for the Global Seed Vault in Norway spawned the idea of looking at average summer temperatures, which climate models can project relatively reliably and which have a large impact on crop yields — between 2.5 and 16 percent less wheat, corn, soy or other crops are produced for every 1.8 — degree F (1 — degree C) rise.

Parasitic nematodes feed on a wide range of crops, including corn, wheat, coffee, soybeans, potatoes and a host of fruit trees.

Much of my team's work focuses on transgene technology from early - stage experiments in model plants all the way to field trials with crop plants such as corn.

Even though the recent heat wave has ended, weeks of drought and days of 100 - degree temperatures have already taken a toll on this year's corn crop in a large part of the Midwestern United States.

The toxin is produced by a common mold, Aspergillus flavus, that grows on crops from rice and cereals to corn and nuts.

Chemists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are closing in on cheap ways to make cellulosic ethanol, a form of ethanol derived from agricultural waste rather than food crops like soybeans or corn.

Concerns have been raised that diverting significant portions of crops, such as corn, to biofuel production could have a negative impact on availability and cost of the food supply.

Similar research in the past has focused on grain crops, like rice and corn.

«This work provides strong evidence for the reduced pest burden for non - Bt corn caused by the Bt corn, based on a reduction in overall pest - population size,» says David Hopkins, director of science at the Scottish Crop Research Institute near Dundee, UK.

It will be the first genetically engineered grain crop on the market, and could eventually be grown on the million or more hectares of maize fields infected by corn borers in the US each year.

Last year, the European Union said it would ban neonicotinoids used for corn and other crops, as well as on home lawns and gardens.

«In a corn production system, simply increasing cover - crop species richness will have a small impact on agroecosystem services, but designing mixtures that maximize functional diversity may lead to agroecosystems with greater multifunctionality.»

Conversely, much more of the prairie lands have become the fertile fields on which we grow our cereal crops of corn, barley and wheat on.

Every summer the larvae of a tiny insect known as the European corn borer (right) wreak havoc on American corn crops, costing farmers nearly a billion dollars annually.

The information gathered from these rice plants will be used to create drought - resistant corn and crops that will grow in depleted soil, perhaps on marginal land in the United States or Asia.

In the second week of November, central Indiana is a patchwork of tawny and black: here a field covered with a stubble of dried corn and soybean plants; a little farther on, bare earth where the farmer has plowed under the residue of last summer's crop.

An insecticide used on corn and other U.S. crops poses health risks to workers who mix and apply it and also can contaminate drinking water, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report released this week.

It is sprayed on corn, cotton, citrus and nut trees, alfalfa, grapes and other crops.

But in Arizona, corn crops depend on scarce reservoir water.

Researchers at private agricultural firms tend to focus on creating better varieties of widely - grown, high - value crops, such as wheat and corn.

On 9 August, Lochhead announced he would not consent to planting of insect - resistant corn, the only GM crop approved E.U. - wide for planting.

«One of the reasons for interest in these second - generation cellulosic feedstocks is that if they can be grown on low - quality soil, they wouldn't compete for land with food crops, such as corn.

This study shows that although miscanthus yield was slightly lower on marginal, low - quality land, a farmer would have an economic incentive to grow miscanthus on the lower quality land first rather than diverting their most productive cropland from growing corn,» said University of Illinois agricultural economist Madhu Khanna who co-authored the study along with a team of economists and environmental and crop scientists from the Energy Biosciences Institute at U of I.

The new analysis found that conventional crops such as corn had the highest yield of biomass that can be turned into biofuel on marginal lands, although their ability to reduce CO2 is harmed by tilling, fertilizing and other CO2 - producing activities necessary to turn them into fuel.

We had hybrids, but those were achieved in the traditional way of just crossing corn, and we used a tremendous number of pesticides on the crops.

There has been concerns about diverting significant portions of crops, including corn, to biofuel production because it may have a negative impact on the availability and cost of the food supply.

In February 2009, frustrated by industry restrictions on independent research into genetically modified crops, two dozen scientists representing public research institutions in 17 corn - producing states told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the companies producing genetically modified (GM) seed «inhibit public scientists from pursuing their mandated role on behalf of the public good» and warned that industry influence had made independent analyses of transgenic crops impossible.

Each GMO food crop currently or soon to be on U.S. shelves (these include canola, corn, papaya, soybean, squash, sugar beets, apples and potatoes) has been individually tested for safety.

It won't say specifically on the label whether the oil has come from genetically modified crops, however, three of the most common genetically modified oils are soybean, cottonseed, and corn oil.

But the chief beneficiary is the large corporate farm and the cartels that buy their products — chiefly cotton, corn and soy — America's three main crops, which are usually grown as monocultures on large farms, requiring extensive use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides.

Hemp thrives on less water than most crops (soy, corn, wheat).

Glyphosate is used on many commercial crops, including soy, corn and canola.

RoundUp is sprayed on many GMO crops like soy, corn, cotton, canola.

Round Up and Round Up - ready crops currently represent 90 % of the soybeans and 70 % of the corn and cotton on the market.

Here is a question you will not find on a dating website profile: This season's Bachelor stars Chris Soules, a fourth - generation farmer from Iowa who, when he isn't shooting a reality show, works a 6,000 - acre field of corn and other crops.

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According to the Ford Macleod Gazette (located in Alberta, where the movie is shooting, so not just some random story), they describe the plot thusly: «Set in the future, the movie details the toll climate change has taken on agriculture, with corn the last crop to be cultivated.

They raised astounding crops when the land was young — rutabagas that weighed sixty pounds, wheat unbearably lush, corn on cobs like truncheons.