Sentences with phrase «since organic crops»

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And finally, since USDA organic standards forbid the use of GM seeds, all GMOs are conventional crops, sprayed with conventional pesticides and fertilizer.

Since almost all of the corn and soybeans grown in the US come from genetically - engineered seeds, crops harvested from these seeds are unsuitable for the organic trade.

Since almonds are one of the most heavily pesticided crops, I won't use almond flour or almonds that are not organic, and I'm surprised that more people who are on diets that Paleo, GF, SCD or similar don't demand it.

The Organic Trade Association is working with the USDA to create a Certified Transition label program that will help farmers market their crops during the three - year transition to organic, since this is one of the biggest challenges to increasing organic farming.

I also suggest that if you can't afford or find organic zucchini, to be sure to cut off the peels of conventional zucchini since it's one of the most heavily sprayed crops, and no one wants to be eating pesticides and herbicides with their zucchini, right?

Since organic farms are mostly mixed farms, integrating animal husbandry with crop production, using vast and diverse rotations, intercrops and green cover crops, and maintaining soil fertility by cultivating nitrogen fixing legumes, they display a higher diversity of domesticated species than conventional farms.

I also suggest that if you can't afford or find organic zucchini, to be sure to cut off the peels of conventional zucchini since it's one of the most heavily sprayed crops, and no one wants to be eating pesticides and herbicides with their zucchini, right?

Due to the highly allergic nature of this food, it is often suggested that those with a high potential for an allergic response wait until age three to try them.25 Even then, be sure to purchase only organic varieties, since peanuts tend to be a heavily sprayed crop.

You can use any type of miso paste — white or red — but it's something I try to find organic since soybeans are a big GMO crop.

I've been making a big effort to choose organic coffee beans at least 90 - 95 % of the time, since apparently coffee is one of the worst crops in terms of pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides.

And while not necessary, I do try to always buy organic potatoes since they are a heavily sprayed crop when it comes to pesticides and herbicides.

Weed management can be a tough challenge in organic cropping systems since growers don't have herbicides in their weed control arsenal.

Rodale has been doing side - by - side testing of organic and GMO crops since the early 80s, and during times of drought they are finding that organics outperformed industrial farming techniques by 31 percent (you can check out the Rodale report (pdf) here).

Soil analysis in 1990 suggested that nitrogen fertilizer application since 1967 had increased the organic carbon content in the surface soil layer by about 3 t / ha in a continuous wheat cropping system.

UC Davis has been helping Bonterra since the vineyards first went organic almost 20 years ago, and their studies suggest that, all things considered, the extra costs of going organic are actually a wash compared with purchasing chemicals and losing crops due to homogeneity.