Sentences with phrase «use of soil»

With more carbon dioxide in the air, plants grow better in warmer and cooler temperatures and wetter and drier soils, make better use of soil nutrients, and resist diseases and pests better, increasing their fruit production, expanding their range, and greening the earth.

Eligible activities under the Mid-South module include: 1) removal of rice straw from the field after harvest, 2) early drainage at the end of the growing season, 3) intermittent flooding during the growing season, and 4) increased water and / or energy use efficiency, achieved through measures including but not limited to: convert contour levees to precision or zero grade; use of side inlet / poly piping systems; use of more efficient diesel pumps; switch from diesel to electric pumps; use of soil moisture sensors to tailor flood to water needs.

Although only convenient for houses with lots of floor space and therefore not the perfect small - space urban apartment solution, the use of the soil makes sense in this case and avoids the fancy technology or vertical gardening.

• Robert Smithson (1938 - 73) Leading exponent of land art, trained at the Art Students League and the Brooklyn Museum School, he began producing a series of conceptualist artworks (sites and non-sites), before moving on to 3 - D works which included the use of soil and earth, and then fully - fledged earthworks in various US states, including Utah and Texas, and in Europe.

I have another question for you too: Can you comment on the use of Soil Based Organisms to treat dysbiosis & infection?

In short, use of soil based organisms (SBOs) is very important for clearing out the debris in the gut to prepare the way and lay the proper groundwork for the beneficial lactic acid based bacteria found in fermented foods and a normal human gut to thrive once again.

A group of researchers led by Felix Kienast from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) has investigated this issue as part of the National Research Programme «Sustainable use of soil as a resource» (NRP 68).

Naming Long Island Sound and the Peconic Estuary as one of eight national critical designation areas would help fund agricultural conservation efforts, habitat restoration efforts and the sustainable use of soil, water and other natural resources, according to Mr. Bellone's office.

With a focus on constant improvement of practices and adoption of the latest farming and winemaking technologies, McManis Family Vineyards» water use efficiency measures in the vineyard include the use of soil moisture sensors, flow meters and distribution uniformity tests; while their winery recycles water and averages one gallon of water to produce one gallon of wine.

Farming without the use of soil has recently become more controversial especially in terms of labeling.

Not exact matches

Hemp has been used to detoxify the soil around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Growers are relying on temporary solutions — trying to prevent it from entering new regions, using clean planting materials and limiting the transfer of potentially infected soil between farms.

Using a wide array of data from sensors in the soil along with satellite imagery and weather forecasts, the company designed a «personalized» irrigation system for each block of vines, greatly reducing water consumption and increasing output.

Although Paul's filibuster was technically against Brennan's nomination, his remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.

The United States takes this action in conjunction with our NATO allies and partners around the world in response to Russia's use of a military - grade chemical weapon on the soil of the United Kingdom, the latest in its ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world.

«The United States takes this action in conjunction with our NATO allies and partners around the world in response to Russia's use of a military - grade chemical weapon on the soil of the United Kingdom, the latest in its ongoing pattern of destabilizing activities around the world,» said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

In the 1990s, scientists found these proteins in the DNA of daffodils and soil bacteria, and used them to make a GMO rice called «golden rice.»

Russia has already retaliated in kind against Britain for ejecting 23 diplomats over the first known use of a military - grade nerve agent on European soil since World War Two.

Jared Kushner, Trump's son - in - law and senior adviser, became a subject of the investigation after US intelligence officials intercepted communications suggesting he had proposed setting up a secret backchannel to Moscow using Russian diplomatic facilities on US soil.

But using the dirt - covered plants would be a food safety disaster — and turning the soil to harvest them would release carbon into the atmosphere, creating the kind of negative impact on the environment Brown is trying to offset.

Andrew Mackenzie, CEO of BHP Billiton, told a conference in Beijing in June last year he expects rising Chinese demand for materials with more consumer uses, such as copper, while greater food consumption could lead to more demand for the soil nutrient potash:

Hemp phytoremediates contaminated soils, uses much less water to grow than corn, soybean, and cotton, and it doesn't need herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides to grow successfully; hemp does all of this while producing more material in it's twelve or so feet of sun stretching life.

One is tempted to use laundry duty as a metaphor for the priestly task of cleansing the soiled soul, & c, & c.but it is at the same time more mundane and more exalted than that.

Why cattle - raising, so extensive in its use of the most limited resource in all of Central America, the soil, and so unintensive in its use of labor while thousands are looking for work?

It means the more rapid use of fossil fuels, the more rapid exploitation of forests, soils, and oceans, the greater pollution of the atmosphere.

Once Christianity was established on Hellenistic soil, the term «Lord» tended to take its meaning primarily from its use to ascribe divine honors to emperors or to the gods who presided over the mystery cults, not to mention its use in the Greek Bible to render the unspeakable name of Yahweh.

Vermes has observed that even when there is a similarity in the material used by Jesus and the Jewish Rabbis, «the careful reader will often notice an individual twist in the New Testament formulation... «81 Except for the parables of the Soil, Weed and Net, Jesus» parables do not contain any expository details.

I even heard of one gardener who used to taste his soil.

Within that functional world - village, we find now existing genocidal war (Indochina), cold war, nuclear weapons threats, conventional weapons threats, colonialism and neo-colonialism, wildly unbalanced use of resources so that a major part of the world population starves or verges on starvation while a minor part consumes lavishly, racism, ignorance, a defilement of the environment through pollution of air, water and soil, and reckless wastage of irreplaceable resources.

The riches of the soil can be exhausted by greedy, selfish, and unwise use.

Some of our things we use up, but the soil is one of those things that needs to be managed properly to insure its continued usefulness, in fact to improve it, and to pass it on to future generations for their use.

Let us remind ourselves that «the earth is the Lord's» and we are at most only stewards of the soil as well as all our earthly possessions to use them as entrusted to us by the Creator for our temporal and above all our eternal good.

To this end, the soil — from which our nourishment comes — must be carefully husbanded by the use of the many techniques now well understood by scientific farmers, such as proper drainage and irrigation, contour plowing, crop rotation, fertilization, and preservation of forests and grassland.

It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile.

When the Church «was uprooted from her Semitic soil and moved into the Greek world,» it was tempted to take music in a more poetic and ecstatic direction, which is why the Council of Laodicea forbade the use of privately composed hymns and restricted singing to the choir.

Stephen, seeing as how the Separatists (sorry, can't use the term Pilgrims) survived the first couple of weeks on food caches they stole from the Wampanoag, and then those same Native Americans taught them how to farm in the poor New England soil, they definitely had more to thank the local Native population for than most people give them credit.

The question of what are the limits to the use of these resources became a critical one, while the whole time industry increased pollution of the atmosphere, the soils and waters of the Earth.

Unfortunately these units can't ve used to check the pH on hot sauce — unfortunately, way more expensive is required for testing liquids.Testing Soil NutrientsBesides pH meters, soil test kits with color indicators are another method of checking the acidSoil NutrientsBesides pH meters, soil test kits with color indicators are another method of checking the acidsoil test kits with color indicators are another method of checking the acidity.

When I tested the soil in our pepper patch, the results were amazingly accurate — all three units showed a pH of 6.3 to 6.5, i.e. no actions necessary here to adjust the pH. One shop that has the Rapitest unit is here, another one here (please note I am not endorsing any of these shops here — just found them using Google).

Using scissors or a sharp knife, cut the bottle about 4 ″ (10 cm) from the bottom and fill half of it with soil or another growing media (see also Planting the Pepper Garden, Part 2: Growing Seedlings).

The Initiative is based on the finding that «4 ‰» annual growth rate of the soil carbon stock would make it possible to stop the present increase in atmospheric CO2 and aims to use a range of agricultural systems to sequester CO2 and store it in the ground as soil organic carbon (SOC).

Chickpeas create their own fertilizer by fixing nitrogen from the air â $ «which means significantly lower use of chemical fertilizers and healthier soils.

We've been buying sunflower sprouts from Alm Hill every week and they use basically the same method — growing them in soil rather than using the more traditional sprouting method of soaking in water.

U.S. Department of Agriculture organic regulations have established regulations on appropriate waiting times, and now all organic producers must wait either 90 or 120 days to harvest their crops following the use of untreated manure, depending on whether the crop has contact with the soil (90 days: think cherries or apples; 120 days: think lettuce or carrots).

Lately, Mr. Ducret has been trying to use a variety of cover crops for nutrient management and improve soil fertility.

No - till production has gained popularity among farmers as a result of potential reduction in labor and energy use [1] and soil quality benefits such as improved soil structure and increased soil organic matter levels [2 - 5].

So I enlisted the help of my local foodie / blogger friend, Natasha, and we came up with a dessert table concept using chocolate cake soil, mixed meringues, two types of sweet and salty popcorn, two types of salted caramel sauce, fresh strawberries and whipped mascarpone cream placed directly onto a brand new tablecloth.

Compost also plays a key role for soil management, but unlike in Biodynamics, Nature Farming typically does not utilize animals, it does not put the same emphasis on crops grown for animal consumption, and avoids the use of animal manure and waste products as soil amendments.

Growers using these products are advised to limit their use based on the potential for regular applications to result in the degradation of soils.

The low use of pesticides and fertilizers, clean soil and pure water combine to produce high quality crop yields.