Sentences with phrase «stockless arable farms»

G.J.H.M. and Timmermans, Dr. B.G.H. (2009) The NDICEA model: a supporting tool for nitrogen management in arable farming.

The following two years were spent farming a 2000 acre arable farm in Cambridgeshire.

The launch event for an exclusive arable farming initiative exploring ways to improve profitability by adopting innovative farming and supply chain practices.

She argued that Letts was set to give a «paean of praise to his beloved editor» and said that Dacre was firmly in the elite camp as he not only owns a grouse moor, but a large arable farm in Sussex «for which he gets huge amounts of EU funding».

A. Ester and his colleagues at the Research Station for Arable Farming and Field Production of Vegetables in Lelystad, the Netherlands, devised experiments to determine the effect of (E)- beta - farnesene on aphids.

The scenic qualities of this area have long been recognised and the idea of granting it protection as a national park were put forward as early as the 1920s, the principal reasons being that it was an extensive area of beautiful and relatively wild country but these early plans never came to fruition and urban development and changing agricultural practices continued to impinge on the area's character with much of the traditional grass «downland» being turned over to arable farming.

The Old Stone Barn comprises of seven luxury self catering apartments with outdoor heated swimming pool croquet lawn, patios and gardens.Situated on an arable farm near old market...

Sleeping four people in two bedrooms, one of which is a double with an en - suite shower room, this semi-detached cottage is on a working arable farm in the countryside near Mauchlin...

... biodiversity can be greatly enhanced on solar farms compared to arable farm land, encouraging bumblebees and butterflies in particular to thrive.

Conventional stockless arable farms depend on the input of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, while stockpiled manure and slurry on livestock farms create additional emissions and other environmen - tal problems.

Or the greatest contiguous stretch of arable farm land in the world (which conveniently happens to be adjacent to those navigable rivers I mentioned.

Visualizing the Highs and Lows of the Lake Mead Reservoir Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Irrigation at Todhia Arable Farm in Saudi Arabia Water vapor in afternoon clouds over the Amazon Permafrost on the northern Siberian Coast Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) 2015: Olympic Efforts to Measure Olympic Mountain Snow

Broad - leaved and conifer forests, grassland, heath and arable farms were included.

At the farm, the main activities are arable farmings and stock breedings, which includes rearing of riding horses and carriage horses for the Imperial Family and for the Court functions, raising other livestocks and poultry, and producing such as milk, meat and eggs for the use of the Imperial Family and domestic and foreign guests.

Not exact matches

As urban sprawl encroaches on the world's arable land, and environmental disasters send food prices soaring, innovators are seeking to take agriculture off the farm.

The need to produce more agricultural products with less water and arable land will tempt a modernizing China to engage in crash programs of high tech farming that will prove radically unsustainable.

In this International Year of Family Farming, farmers» leaders from every arable continent have clearly stated that the focus must be on the vast majority of the worlds farmers, small holder family farms rather than large scale agribusiness.

· Seaweed farming is one of the most environmentally friendly types of aquaculture: It uses no arable land, freshwater, chemical treatments or fertilizers.

Soil organic carbon (SOC) in arable organic farming depends on inputs in crop residues, green manure, catch crops and animal manure.

In a European context, the labour input is higher on organic arable and mixed farms, while organic dairy farms use the same amount of labour, or less, than comparable conventional farms.

James commenced his career working on the family 1000 acre arable, pig and beef farm.

Governor Ambode also urged prospective investors to take advantage of the wetland environment as well as a 1,500 hectares reserve of tropical hard woods to invest in water hyacinth recycling, fisheries and fish farm estate, arable crop estates, rice processing mill, livestock resources, forestry, agricultural equipment and human capacity development in Agriculture.

OVER the past forty years, the world has lost nearly a third of its arable land — because of accelerated soil erosion due to farming and other activities.

Yet farming and ranching already exact a daunting toll on the environment: burn down rain forests to create more arable land, dump fertilizers onto fields that run off and choke life in rivers and oceans, emit volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, use up vast stores of freshwater for irrigation.

Furthermore, the arable land used for farming dropped by one quarter over the 56 - year period, and investment in heavy farm equipment and other capital expenditures decreased by 12 percent.

Maybe they did more when their farm was arable or the storm wasn't so violent, but this is their life now and they get by, biding time for some sort of miracle.

Jim Herder, a farmer near Sylvan Lake, Alta., buys and rents arable land for his farm production.

Abundant natural resources and arable land suggest that Pickering originated as a farming community until the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century when a castle and church were built, around which the town grew.

The Urubamba alluvial basin is an almost continuous zone of arable and pastoral farming land.

We identified as most promising measures: the promotion of organic inputs on arable land instead of grassland, the introduction of perennials (grasses, trees) on arable set - aside land for conservation or biofuel purposes, to promote organic farming, to raise the water table in farmed peatland, and — with restrictions — zero tillage or conservation tillage.

The natural variation that has led us out of the Little Ice Age has a bit of frosting on the cake by land use; and, part of that land use has resulted in a change in vegetation and soil CO2 loss so that we see a rise in CO2 and the CO2 continues to rise without a temperature accompaniment (piano player went to take a leak), as the land use has all but gobbled up most of the arable land North of 30N and we are starting to see low till farming and some soil conservation just beginning when the soil will again take up the CO2, and the GMO's will increase yields, then CO2 will start coming down on its own and we can go to bed listening to Ave Maria to address another global crisis to get the populous all scared begging governments to tell us much ado about... nothing.

The drainage of moors, which has been practiced for centuries so as to gain arable land for farming and livestock, is in this respect a big ecological problem.

One paper I saw said the reason for this would be the slow migration of crops from hotter areas to the new arable land opened up by the warmer climate or just migration of farm land.

And without a demographic transition, a planet of 9 or 11 or even 14 billion people scraping a bare existence from the land is a planet in which virtually every plot of arable land will be converted to low - intensity farming.

The amount of crops produced by the setup in the desert of Qatar is comparable to commercial farms in more arable regions.

Other tasks of a Farm Manager include monitoring the quality of the livestock and arable crops and for making sure that the farm activities comply with the government policies and regulatiFarm Manager include monitoring the quality of the livestock and arable crops and for making sure that the farm activities comply with the government policies and regulatifarm activities comply with the government policies and regulations.