Sentences with phrase «use of food crops»

«Texas has a huge opportunity in biofuels if we'll continue leveraging our state's energy expertise while avoiding use of food crops for energy, a practice that harms our farmers and ranchers, and drives up the family grocery bill,» Mr. Perry said.

However the limit would still expand the use of food crops for fuel and would not end biofuels competing with food production.

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.

The result is the use of big data, artificial wisdom, drones, and other tools we are familiar with from other branches of technology for the purpose of improving food crops.

Well, I hope you don't wear clothes of different fabric, or farm (or purchase food from a farm) which puts different crops side by side, or mind if I buy your daughter at a decent price (though I don't know the going rate, but I could sure use the worker), or that you don't work on the Sabbath, or eat any kind of shellfish, or get a hair cut, or play football.

FDA's alignment with NOP standards on the use of compost recognizes the reduced food safety risk that composting can provide to public health, and FDA's decision to defer final decision on its previously proposed 9 - month minimum application interval for manure shows the agency's recognition that manure plays its own unique role in providing organic crops with adequate fertility.

Organic farmers also use numerous integrative pest management techniques which promote environments that support beneficial insects such as pollinators by providing them with habitat, and use farming methods such as crop rotation which provide a diversity of nutritious floral food sources to reduce the prospect of malnutrition.

Some well - intentioned vegans overlook the use of honey because of the widely spread myth that honey and bee products are all - natural by - products of the necessary pollination of our food crops.

«If we grow regeneratively, using hemp as part of the rotations and other crops in that rotation, we are able not only to reduce and potentially mitigate climate change, we are able to boost soil health, boost the nutrients within our food, and to help really sustain our fields so that we can be growing food for a very long time for our people,» said Elizabeth Kucinich, Hemp History Week endorser and Rodale Institute board member.

Over the years, Bobby Ham has led the company into processed goods, utilizing off grade produce to create value added products while reducing food waste by using nearly 100 percent of the crops it grows.

Studies have shown that using different varieties of certain crops, changing temperatures of food storage and processing, and other food handling practices can lower levels of acrylamide in food.

The advantages of grassland - based animal production without concentrated feed are that pastures, which can not be used for arable crops, are used for food production.

«[M] y concern is that this kind of marketing threatens the use of technology that's allowed farmers to use crop inputs that are much safer than what they were using 20 years ago,» Mulhern told Food Navigator.

With its stabilized rice bran, RiceBran Technologies has created a second crop and food source without increasing the use of arable land or water.

A common herbicide is ending up in our food, thanks to the growing practice of using it to dry crops in preparation for harvest.

A good crop of carrots and a recommendation to try using some immunity boosting whole foods has prompted this recipe.

Rather than investing in the promotion and implementation of golden rice, this money could be used to promote crop diversity and strengthen local and regional nutrition and food sovereignty.

«The marriage of distilled and pressed apples constituting a Pommeau made the project seem like the perfect use of the foraged crop from 412 Food Rescue,» say Jill Steiner of Wigle Whiskey.

In stabilized rice bran, RiceBran Technologies has created a second crop and food source without increasing the use of arable land or water.

- Increase investment in research and development of plant - based foods and clean meat; - Clarify that food producers can use compound names such as «soy milk» and other descriptors on food labels; - Include commonsense measures to reform checkoff programs; and - Incentivize the production and consumption of specialty crops and pulses.

Slammed by soaring costs for food, labor and rent, New York's bars, restaurants and nightclubs are using a growing crop of third - party apps and services to rent out their dining rooms, coat - check areas and even their bathrooms to make extra cash.

It seems that there is a section in the media that is totally opposed to the use of GM technology for food production and that they are being very selective in reporting sensationalised figures and anecdotes to scare people away from GM crops.

We know how consumers, governments and the food industry regard GM, but this is the first proper look at the attitudes of the people who would use GM crops.

As food security becomes an increasingly important global issue, scientists are looking for the best way to maintain the organic matter in soils using different methods of fertilization and crop rotation.

«Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical food: New research shows promise in improving crops with use of wild relatives.»

The advantage of these biorefineries is that instead of processing crops that are also used as food, they use debris from farming (like wheat straw) and foresting.

«Use of the nanoparticle increases soil diffusion while decreasing the risk of leaching and runoff, reducing the amount of chemical in food crops and reducing the cost to treat crops.»

Its use has steeply declined in the U.S. over the past couple of decades, particularly on food crops.

Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food - price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.

Given that there is no known method of «reconditioning» such crops that would «provide a reasonable assurance of safety for human food use,» the FDA instructs farmers to dispose of them «in a manner that ensures they do not contaminate unaffected crops during harvesting, storage or distribution.»

Most of those afflicted live in developing countries, where there is not enough clean drinking water or effective sanitation systems to keep infected feces from contaminating food and water, and where human excrement is used to fertilize crops.

In addition to inhaling or absorbing pyrethroids that linger in households, people ingest traces of pyrethroids in their food, since the chemicals are used on some vegetable, fruit and grain crops.

It means they are not rewarded simply because their crops are used for fuel instead of food.

The form of phosphate plants can use is in danger of reaching its peak — when supply fails to keep up with demand — in just 30 years, potentially decreasing the rate of crop yield as the as the world population continues to climb and global warming stresses crop yields, which could have damaging effects on the global food supply.

Sunflower and other oilseed crops are the source of the vast majority of vegetable oil used for cooking and food processing.

Turning the food crop into ethanol would not be the best use of the energy embedded in the kernels» carbohydrates, according to a new study in Science.

All use of biomass — whether for ethanol or electricity — runs the risk of displacing food crops, however, as well as the need for large amounts of water.

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) awards Use of Fertility Enhancing Food, Forage and Cover Crops in Sustainably Managed Agroecosystems: The Bentley Fellowship to Canadian or developing - country students or researchers with a university degree in agriculture, forestry, or biology who wish to undertake postgraduate applied on - farm research in a developing country with cooperating farmers.

Now they will apply their discoveries to improve the water - use - efficiency of food crops and test their efficacy in water - limited conditions.

Other suggested projects include studies of Arctic ecosystems subject to pollution from Russian factories; surveys of wild relatives of crops in South America; studies of the food potential of fish in African lakes; and investigation of the greenheart tree in Guyana as a raw material for pharmaceutical use.

Experts from the Pharmacy Faculty and the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica — ETSIA) of the University of Seville have published a study that shows that when reducing the water used to water cherry tomato crops by more than 50 %, the product not only maintains its quality, both commercially and nutritionally, but it also even increases the level of carotenoids, compounds of great interest in the food - processing industry.

Rather, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would drop by 28 percent without farmed animals because of increases associated with producing additional food crops and the use of more synthetic fertilizer to replace manure.

«Conventional» biofuels are made from food crops and so compete with food for land, yet efforts to limit the use of conventional biofuels did not make it into the 2009 directive.

Nor would he approve the use of six other GM crops that are under evaluation by the European Food Safety Authority.

-- The bulk of monetary value of food trade is concentrated in trades among European Union countries, but these trade relationships are often facilitated by land use in other regions where the crops behind those products are grown.

Pentachlorphenol is also used as a pesticide, although its use is restricted to treatment of railroad ties and utility poles, not food crops.

The resulting report calls for more research on GM crops useful in developing countries, such as nutrient - enhanced foods and salt - tolerant plants, and urges that use of GM crops be weighed against the hazards of pesticide use and other current farming methods.

The crops most widely used in the world for food in many cases depend on particular combinations of soil type, climate, moisture, weather patterns and the infrastructure of equipment, experience and distribution systems.

In agriculture, the use of Agrobacterium tumefacians as a bacteria - mediated delivery system to transfer recombinant DNA to crops (developed by Mary - Dell Chilton and colleagues in the 1970s) marked the advent of GMO foods and other commercial plant products.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.