Sentences with phrase «wheat production as»

Under some scenarios, climate change could lead to dramatic drops in global wheat production as well as reductions in maize.

Not exact matches

Wheat prices spent the first few days of this week pushing back up towards their highs made back in early March as crop tours began this week to determine just how much production has been lost.

The warnings came as key players in Australia's wheat production and supply chain gathered in Perth for meetings, including a Grain Industry Association of WA conference where Mr Litvinsky was the keynote speaker.

This includes eating less animal products and using less concentrated feed such as wheat and soybeans in animal production.

US spring wheat production will fall to a 15 - year low, as crops in North Dakota have been crippled by bad weather.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

The authors noted the practice of multiple - stream milling with recombination in the production of whole wheat flour was recognized by the FDA as early as 1941.

If Australia does nothing, and wheat production remains at about 25 million tonnes, the nation's market share would slip by about 240,000 tonnes per year as it lost to global rivals.

Sadly, 95 % of all corn is GMO and wheat is a stored grain and both of these crops are prone to mycotoxins like mold and fungus from storage facilities as the production is so massive.

Global crop yields were beginning to decline — especially for wheat — raising doubts as to whether production could keep up with population growth.

In recent times, winter wheat has been increasingly grown as a cover crop in Rolling Plains cotton production systems.

Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.

Straw from crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape is seen as a potential source of biomass for second generation biofuel production.

Myers said the shift to technified coffee production changed the process to look more like traditional large wheat or soybean farms in the United States as opposed to allowing coffee plants to grow in smaller shaded areas.

Cover crops, such as winter wheat were also added to the mix by some producers to enhance the benefits of no - till production.

Elizabete Carmo - Silva, LEC lecturer in plant sciences for food security, said: «Both jointed grass and barley are regarded as valuable genetic resources for improving wheat disease resistance, our research suggests that they can also be used to improve biomass production.»

So, enabling C3 crops such as wheat, rice and soy to use C4 pathways could provide similar advantages of less photorespiration, which leads to production of more biomass, yet releases less carbon into the atmosphere.

Furthermore, other factors will come into play, such as the local availability of water, competition with other crops such as wheat or corn, and the sheer cost of planting and maintaining new vineyards and production facilities.

«Climate change is already constraining wheat production in regions such as South Asia, where more than 500 million inhabitants eat wheat - based foods,» Braun said.

«If there is a production issue — say, drought or a serious pest or disease outbreak in a key wheat growing country — then wheat stocks may not be as accessible as recent, bearish headlines suggest,» Kaur Purewal added.

SciDevNet — The initiative known as Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is focusing on eight priority areas — self - sufficiency in rice, intensification of cassava, food security in the Sahel, transforming savannas as a breadbasket, restoring tree plantations, expanding horticulture, increasing wheat production and expanded fish farming.

After preliminary work in 1943, plant breeders, soil scientists, plant pathologists, and entomologists working as a team, began a concentrated attack on the various aspects of wheat production in 1944.

When wheat is digested in the body, certain compounds known as gluten exorphins (sometimes called gluteomorphins) are produced; interestingly, dairy products under certain conditions can also lead to the production of similar compounds known as casein exorphins.

Meats from feedlots can be given such things as corn, corn by - products (some is derived from high fructose corn syrup production and ethanol), barley, milo, wheat, and other grains and roughage that often consists of corn stalks, alfalfa, cottonseed meal, and premixes of chemical preservatives, antibiotics, and fermentation products.

My recipes are wheat and mostly grain free because starchy carbohydrates — even ones that are not technically classified as sugars — are still converted to glucose in the body, promoting the need for excess insulin production.

As highlighted in the documentary Food Inc., the amount of money that goes toward the overproduction of corn, soy and other subsidies like wheat could be diverted to the production of fruits, vegetables and grass - fed livestock, providing that budget redistribution and subsequent actions were handled carefully.

Some of these hypersensitive reactions include ear infections which have been associated with wheat and other potential allergens; bad gas production and other digestive problems such as diarrhea, vomiting, and loose stools have also been reported.

Global crop yields were beginning to decline — especially for wheat — raising doubts as to whether production could keep up with population growth.

U.S. Department of Agriculture data tables provide evidence for the importance of the eight Midwest states for U.S. agricultural production.3 Evidence for the effect of future elevated carbon dioxide concentrations on crop yields is based on scores of greenhouse and field experiments that show a strong fertilization response for C3 plants such as soybeans and wheat and a positive but not as strong a response for C4 plants such as corn.

Rice and wheat production declines as heat tolerance is exceeded.

In the next two to five years, the energy - efficient production of ethanol from cellulosic biomass such as wheat and rice straw, hemp, flax, and corn stalks will become commercially viable.

FGovernment support for industrial crop production has led to an increase in corn - and soy - fed animals, and increased production of «junk» foods that use corn (e.g., high fructose corn syrup), wheat, and soy as their base, ultimately contributing to the prevalence of health problems such as heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.

Observed data and many studies indicate that a warming climate has a negative effect to crop production, generally reduce yields of staple cereals such as wheat, rice and maize, which, however, differs between regions and latitudes.

In 2011, the global carbon trading market was worth $ 176 billion — which, as Jo Nova noted, was the same value as total global wheat production.

And recent research indicates that regions such as Iran's Azarbaijan region will experience large increases in crop production, including wheat, if CO2 fertilization trends continue.

More specifically, the production of wheat in order to raise livestock is literally ruining the environmental makeup of the planet, hemp is an alternative that would not only continue the global food economy, but also serve as a textile, motor - fuel, and nutrient source.