Sentences with phrase «research on agricultural production»

However, the research plan does not include research on agricultural production practices, including organic practices, that have a demonstrated impact on pollinator health

Not exact matches

Speakers I found especially engaging included: Louise Fresco, who presented the keynote on future trends in food including tailored nutrition and food printing and the simultaneous challenge of sufficient calories in the developing world, and adequate nutrition in the developed world; and Simon Costa who developed and distributed a micro hermetic silo for grain storage reminding us that funding is mainly directed towards researching increased agricultural production while post-harvest losses go unaddressed.

Not only will the research offer insights on steps to creating beer on the Red Planet, but it could also provide valuable information on the production of barley and the larger agricultural community here on earth.

While the long - term effects of cannabis cultivation on the environment are unknown, the researchers concluded that land management and agricultural policy informed by further research may reduce these threats in California and in other states and countries where cannabis production can be regulated.

With the help of scientists in the lab of Ed Buckler, a Cornell Professor and USDA — Agricultural Research Station scientist, the researchers examined the genomes of 26 corn varieties to look for genetic links to terpene production and mapped them to their locations on the chromosomes.

New research suggests that nomadic Huns may have settled and engaged in agricultural production, while some farmers on the frontier of the Roman Empire became more nomadic.

UPDATE 5/19: John Tierney has an interesting piece up on his blog reviewing how non-governmental funding for agricultural research aiding poor countries dried up as foundations and international lenders shifted priorities away from boosting food production, partly due to rising pressure from green groups.

Searching for agricultural research, about affect global cooling would have on crop production, and what steps should be taken to protect against that.

(v) conduct research to improve forecasting, characterization, and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities, including its effects on agricultural production, natural resources, energy supply and demand, recreation, and other sectors of the economy; and

Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).

«Much research has looked at food security, but little has focused on the wider health effects of agricultural production,» Dr Springmann says.

As noted previously on this site (here and here), Vilsack and the RFA tout a study by Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD), which concluded that if ethanol production had remained at year 2000 levels, the U.S. motor fuel supply would have been billions of gallons smaller and, thus, significantly pricier in 2010 and 2011.

Useful to Usable (U2U): Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers was a USDA - NIFA funded research and extension project focused on improving the usability of climate information for agricultural production in the Midwestern United States.

Ralph Paige: Executive Director, Federation of Southern Cooperatives / Land Assistance Fund; served as presidential appointment to the 21st Century Production Agriculture Commission; participates on the Agriculture Policy Advisory Committee for Trade; the Cooperative Development Foundation; and the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education & Economics Advisory Board.

The commission reports to the worldwide network of agricultural centers that undertake frontline research on the problems of food production.

Journal of Farm Management - Publishes articles that survey and report on agricultural business management, including topics such as production, marketing, agricultural merchandising, new developments, research, and successful achievements in agricultural business management.