Sentences with phrase «other agricultural products of»

The government has put price above safety in purchasing foods, and that has «resulted in school lunches becoming a dumping ground for ground beef and other agricultural products of questionable safety,» Roberts said.

Not exact matches

The fee could be based on a percentage of their gross farm receipts (the total of receipts from all agricultural products sold, government program payments and contract work done on other farms), with bigger farms shouldering more of the cost.

Cutting the imports of American wheat, soybeans, and other agricultural products will not cause starvation in China because there are alternative producers (Canada, Brazil, and Argentina).

Among other agricultural goods, Niemeyer grows soybeans and beef cows — two of the 106 U.S. products China said in early April would be subject to a 25 % tariff.

«American exports of agricultural and other primary products to China totaled nearly $ 20 billion in 2016, which accounted for 25 percent of the industry's exports in that year.

Livestock products account for roughly two - thirds of agricultural income, with milk and other dairy products leading the way.

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.

Chemical analysis must be made in accordance with the methods described in the most current edition of the Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC International or other current applicable validated methodology determining the presence of contaminants in agricultural products.

The fish is considered a local delicacy, and if the legend is true, the study of the Cascadura and other animals and agricultural products will ensure Trinidad has enough resources to feed all of the visitors who eventually will return.

Although certified organic products must be grown, processed and handled without the use of pesticides or most other synthetic chemicals, it is possible for organic crops to be inadvertently exposed to agricultural chemicals.

Luckily, research is showing promising sources of both new and valuable products in food, animal, horticultural and other agricultural materials, co-products and waste streams.

However, weakened competitiveness of local agricultural products compared to counterparts from other countries, incompatibility with international standards and absence of export plans have undermined the export of food products in non-oil exports.

To further support the development of industrial hemp as an agricultural product, the legislation Governor Cuomo signed today will clarify that industrial hemp will be treated the same as other crops and seed under state law.

By the time it's completed, it will have the longest runway in Ghana and it will be able to take aircraft of all sizes and capacities because one of the intentions of that airport is to create a special cargo zone, so that agricultural products, horticultural products, vegetables and other things produced here, will be airlifted from here.

«It fits with ways in which maritime exchange networks were important for global distribution of chicken and other agricultural products.

As a result, the concentration of this greenhouse gas is reduced and other sources of organic carbon that are usually applied as biotechnological substrates, such as agricultural products, are no longer required.

Universities need to get better at sharing patented seeds and other products of publicly - funded agricultural science if the United States wants to keep producing bountiful harvests, argues a new report from a group of leading academic researchers.

The new study used the concept of «virtual water,» an economic concept used to track water flows through trade, to track how water is traded through agricultural products and other goods that require water to produce.

In total, exports of meat and other animal products use at least 8 percent of the global agricultural land base.

The majority of plant biologists work somewhere in the continuum from basic plant biology on one end — the main focus of this feature — to the development of agricultural products on the other.

Reducing the use of animal products can have a considerable impact on areas suffering scarce water resources, as meat production requires more water than other agricultural products.

«This study provides a promising approach for detecting the contamination of silver nanoparticles in food crops or other agricultural products,» Lin said.

This region is home to a complex multimodal network of transportation infrastructure and several large population centers, and it plays a critical national economic role in the import and export of oil and gas, agricultural products, and other goods.

The entrance to Che Chem Ha is decorated with Mayan art, and its walls are lined with Mayan storage jars, many of which still contain petrified pieces of corn, annatto and other agricultural products.

As abstract representations of physical space, asset - backed securities (such as home mortgages), certain futures contracts (think of agricultural futures like grains and meats), and other derivative products all exist as speculative representations of space that indeed transform our material reality.

Again I agree, but I believe that if, like it has been suggested for other polluters, the agricultural community were required to cover the external costs of their practices, the subsequent increased cost of their products would greatly reduce meat consumption relative to veggies.

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

These best case figures Don't include processing the full range of biomass waste products available, from landfill biomass, sewage, food processing residues, forestry and woodworking residues, other agricultural residues, and industrial biomass residues, etc..

For many, debt is heavily driven by the need to import oil that at today's oil prices can not be paid for by sales of agricultural products, textiles, and other typical developing nation exports.

Our effort will inspire other startups to accelerate development of liquid fuels from algae and agricultural waste products.

The municipality of Governador Valadares has prioritised the marketing of urban agricultural products in different ways: (a) by providing incentives for the formation of cooperatives for the production and commercialization of products, (b) by the creation of sales and distribution centres as well as farmers markets in the city and c) by buying agricultural products from the urban farmer groups to supply to schools, community kitchens, hospitals and other service organizations.

The tide is turning Rob Ellison — sorry if your pecuniary interests in maintaining the status quo somehow suffer, but at least a few billion others will benefit from less economic waste and misuse of agricultural land and products.

Clarifies that it is lawful for a person with a license to manufacture industrial hemp products or engage in scientific, agricultural, or other research involving the applications of industrial hemp and that no person shall be prosecuted for the possession, cultivation, or manufacture of industrial hemp plant material or products.

They expect that cheese and other dairy products will cause a quarter of agricultural climate pollution in the next 40 years.

Carbon stocks: The quantity of carbon stored in biological and physical systems including: trees, products of harvested trees, agricultural crops, plants, wood and paper products and other terrestrial biosphere sinks, soils, oceans, and sedimentary and geological sinks.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

The state of California is the largest contributor to the economic and agricultural activity of the United States, accounting for a greater share of population (12 %)(1), gross domestic product (12 %)(2), and cash farm receipts (11 %)(3) than any other state.

USDA spokeswoman Courtney Rowe commented that, «While food safety is a vitally important part of successfully marketing produce and other agricultural products, other federal and state public health agencies are better equipped to perform this function.»

Due to the nature of his practice, he handled a wide variety of cases including those related to industrial and agricultural products liability, premises liability, false imprisonment, trespass, battery, automotive and tractor - trailer negligence, probate matters, condemnations, land - line disputes and others.

Some of them include planning, supervising and managing irrigation, flood, drainage and water control systems, building dairy effluent schemes, agricultural product processing, environmental impact assessment and interpretation of research results among many others.