Sentences with phrase «phosphate fertilizers used»

phosphate fertilizers used in nut and grain production increase the concentration of phytic acid in the bran, which limits the amount of magnesium we can absorb from nuts and grains.

Not exact matches

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.

Phosphate Free: Some communities request that the lawn fertilizer you use is free of phosphates.

If tobacco growers are using fertilizer on their plants, it obviously works, even though it is made from uranium - rich phosphate rock and results in polonium 210 — a decay product of uranium — being inhaled with cigarette smoke.

The phosphate is harvested from vast strip mines and is used in everything from fertilizer to cola drinks.

Phosphate rock, a fertilizer with only 8 to 12 percent phosphorus, is not only inexpensive, it is naturally suited for use in acidic soils.

The use of phosphate fertilizers over many decades — contaminated with cadmium — created the current conditions.

With one of phosphate's primary uses being the production of commercial fertilizers, the possibility of fluoride residues being absorbed by commercial tea crops being repeatedly treated with phosphate based fertilizers is a very real concern.

Phytic acid will be much higher in foods grown using modern high - phosphate fertilizers than those grown in natural compost.6

Unfortunately, the main chemicals used to fluoridate drinking water, known as «silicofluorides,» are not pharmaceutical - grade fluoride products; they are industrial by - products of the phosphate fertilizer industry.

For example, Mosaic mines in Florida that harvest phosphate, and Eagle Mine in Michigan that harvests cobalt, use those minerals for fertilizer.

I can see that the third world requires greater economic growth for a while, but that doesn't necessarily translate to greater growth of the world economy, and it certainly should not be done using fossil fuels and greater use of nitrate / phosphate fertilizers.

The last prevent mining of phosphates (used as fertilizer) and many rare earths (which are found in conjunction with thorium) and used for just about everything electronic.

Scientists have known since the 1920s that organic fertilizers used by farmers to supplement conventional systems — composted animal manure, rock phosphates, fish emulsions, guano, wood ashes, etc. — further contaminate topsoil with varying concentrations of heavy metals.

The phosphate mined is used to produce fertilizer and livestock feed supplements.

The combination of high prices of natural gas, which is used to make nitrogen fertilizer, and of phosphate, as reserves are depleted, suggests a much greater future emphasis on nutrient recycling — an area where small farmers producing for local markets have a distinct advantage over massive feeding operations.