Sentences with phrase «use by growers»

That still has laws on the books that would speak to such equipment, even if it wasn't manufactured specifically for use by growers.

That still has laws on the books that would speak to such equipment, even if it wasn't manufactured specifically for use by growers.

Sonoma County Winegrowers Launch Grant Program to Help Support Sustainability Certification The organization is offering 250 vouchers, each worth $ 400, to be used by their grower members to offset the costs associated with completing certification...

«The hydroponic techniques that are used by our growers are constantly evolving into well - developed science.»

Yalumba is enforcing a change in the irrigation technology used by its growers from broadacre systems, which provide water to large swathes of land, to microsystems, which target specific areas, ensuring each drop of water counts.

The ground is warmer outside because nothing is completely transparent and all greenhouses block some of the light, particularly greenhouses used by growers which often do not have crystal clear glazing.

Not exact matches

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Sustainable winegrowing is being used by winegrape growers and vintners throughout California to grow and make high quality grapes and wine.

The program was created by a dynamic team of scientists, industry leaders, growers, and academics, and is peer - reviewed and accredited by Protected Harvest, a non-profit organization that independently certifies farmers» use of stringent environmental growing standards.

By working with smallholders to access the RSSF, manufacturers and retailers that use palm oil ingredients in their products can demonstrate their commitment to sustainability and develop a mutually beneficial relationship with growers.

The company ensures quality and consistency by directly farming 70 percent of the fruit it packs, and the other growers it works with use similar practices and have like - minded values, Ken Bailey notes.

They're now used by more than 1,165 wineries and growers.

These metrics were selected by CSWA's Sustainable Winegrowing Joint Committee, comprised of 50 growers and vintners from throughout the California wine industry, because they met specific criteria, such as economic and environmental impact, data availability, ease of use, and state of the science.

Using data provided * by a large grower in Mexico, a transparent software - modeling tool was used to analyze total annual costs for using corrugated containers vs. RPCs to ship 144 million pounds of Roma tomatoes to HoustonUsing data provided * by a large grower in Mexico, a transparent software - modeling tool was used to analyze total annual costs for using corrugated containers vs. RPCs to ship 144 million pounds of Roma tomatoes to Houstonusing corrugated containers vs. RPCs to ship 144 million pounds of Roma tomatoes to Houston, TX.

Actual data provided by a large onion grower confirmed that using RPCs instead of corrugated containers increased their annual shipping costs by 10.4 percent system - wide.

One word of warning: This equipment is identical to that used by indoor marijuana growers.

Some of the larger growers use forced convection solar dryers, which reduces the time for sun - drying by 65 percent.

Created by Healdsburg - based Chef Peter Brown and longtime Dry Creek grape growers Doug and Susan Provisor, this brand partners with some of the top wineries in Northern California for the grape juice and skins to create an easy - to - use base for your mixology pleasure.

Fatigued by the avalanche of taste - alike, burn - alike super-hot chile strains, crosses and hybrids, I offer a challenge to video reviewers and hobby growers: objectively tell the difference between them using only your taste buds.

In 2010 I told you about a new $ 25 million ad campaign, sponsored by carrot growers, to attract kids to baby carrots through the use of junk food - style packaging and marketing.

The animals are struggling in part due to rat poison used by illegal marijuana growers.

Growers will need to keep the crops standing until harvest by using reduced fertilization, among other techniques.

«By reducing water use, growers also can reduce fertilizer leaching, as well as prevent fungi diseases, meaning less pesticides,» said Maria Zamora, who conducted the experiment for her master's thesis.

Climate science could also be better communicated by using intermediaries such as Extension educators and agricultural advisers to translate data in ways that are most relevant to growers, she said.

Growers can manage the potential risks linked to extreme rain events and soil degradation by using adaptive strategies such as planting cover crops, using no - till techniques, increasing the biodiversity of grasses and forage and extending crop rotations, Prokopy said.

In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they use by practicing precision farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water used and therefore nitrate runoff.

Hawkes also points out a major benefit of research on microbiome treatments: They may one day help move growers toward more sustainable, low - input agriculture by using plant - microbe interactions as opposed to chemical additives.

Your mention of West Germany using power company records in 1972 to track the Baader - Meinhof gang (25 January, p 5) reminds me of a hazard once faced by US orchid growers.

As a result, pink bollworm has been all but eradicated in the southwestern U.S. Suppression of this pest with Bt cotton is the cornerstone of an integrated pest management program that has allowed Arizona cotton growers to reduce broad spectrum insecticide use by 80 percent, saving them over $ 10 million annually.

Having said that, we know that by its very nature chia is an extremely hearty plant and that our growers do not use pesticides.

Every maca root used by REBBL is purchased through a direct relationship with the grower families through a unique fair exchange program.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

School officials in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and other districts began to return apples to their lunch menus last week, after confirming that their fruit did not contain a potentially harmful chemical used by some apple growers.

When and if organic growers make the case for using a synthetic substance, such as pheromones to prevent crop infestation by insects, it must be «approved according to criteria that examine its effects on human health and the environment,» according to the USDA.

On the plus side, Merrick says they use local growers for their ingredients; no poultry by - product meals, no artificial preservatives, no corn, wheat, soy, or gluten.

Created by Healdsburg - based Chef Peter Brown and longtime Dry Creek grape growers Doug and Susan Provisor, this brand partners with some of the top wineries in Northern California for the grape juice and skins to create an easy - to - use base for your mixology pleasure.

The software has a host of possibilities and is already being used by a soy grower to analyze and optimize crop yields, and a construction project manager who keeps track of multiple distant jobs without needing to visit the site each time.

The results of a Purdue University study show that by using LED lights instead of the conventional high pressure sodium (HPS) lights for growing tomatoes in greenhouses, growers could get the same yields of fruit from the plants using just 25 % of the energy required with current methods.

For this video, brought to us by EcoFilms Australia, we visit the rooftop farm at Green Sky Growers in Florida, where they use liquid oxygen and high protein fish food (presumably made of other fish) to produce 1 lb of fish for every gallon of water.

However, a new web platform aims to change that, by making it much simpler to connect local foodies with local backyard growers, and to put more public domain fruit trees on the map so that people can put those fruits to good use.

This is partly covered by selling the CO2 to a nearby fruit and vegetable grower for use in its greenhouse.

Innovative Industrial Properties Inc., a provider of creative real estate capital solutions to the medical - use cannabis industry, closed its initial public offering in December 2016 and has been snapping up facilities tenanted by licensed growers ever since.

Herbs are vigorous growers, so if you find you have a glut of them that you can't use, toss them into salads by the handful or freeze into ice cubes to drop into summer drinks.