Sentences with phrase «while conventional farms»

Organic farms likely use air - chilling methods, while conventional farms chill their meat in chlorinated pools.

His farm is relatively smaller (700 acres) while conventional farms are thousands of acres.

There are conflicting studies on this topic, but farmer's growing organic produce are limited to the use of pesticides that are naturally occurring, while conventional farming practices use synthetic pesticides that are linked to various health problems such as ADHD in children.

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I was the only «experienced» farm girl among the participants, and I was chosen in part because I come from a conventional agriculture background while the teachings and discussions were in line with Slow Food's philosophy of food that is good, clean, and fair.

Farming animals in a free range environment while also keeping the natural environment in good shape and protecting biodiversity can also mean certified organic farmers run less animals than conventional farms.

While there are organic farms that match the size of their conventional equivalents, most are smaller.

While much of conventional farming is doing more harm than good to the climate, wheat may be an important crop for reduc...

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.

While these standards make welfare better than conventional farming, «organic» does not guarentee that the meat was produced on a small farm, where animals roamed freely, or that the animals were treated humanely.

So while conventional industrialized agriculture feeds the developed world, most of the world's farmers work small family farms.

However, in most parts of the world, conventional dairying is associated with high levels of grain feeding, the use of cow breeds which produce high milk volumes, and the application of large amounts of fertilizer («high input» farming), while organic dairying is tied to pasture and forage feeding, lower amounts of fertilizer application, and the use of mixed or minority breeds («low input»).

In general, the study concludes that while organic farming is more environmentally friendly per unit of land than conventional approaches, it is not better for the environment when assessed in terms of units of output.

While it was once an abundant mineral in the soil and in well - water, conventional farming practices strip it from the soil and fluoride and other compounds in water bind with it and make it indigestible in our bodies.

Oh, and while conventional power stations can be built right where the power is needed (in or near major cities), solar and wind farms have to be sited where demand is low or nonexistent, necessitating hundreds of billions of dollars in new transmission lines, transformers and other infrastructure, and the personnel to maintain them..

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.

The reason was that wind and water erosion degraded the soil on the conventional farm while the soil on the organic farms steadily improved in organic matter, moisture, microbial activity and other soil quality indicators.

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While organic farms spend significantly more on labor, they often spend much less on pesticides and fertilizers than their conventional counterparts, explains John Reganold, study - co-author and WSU professor of soil science and agroecology.

The UCS study found that while crop yields of DroughtGard did decrease crop losses by 6 % and would increase overall US corn production by 1 %, conventional crop breeding has been increasing drought tolerance by about 1 % per year for the past 10 years, while this conventional breeding combined with improved farming practices has been able to increase corn production by 1.5 - 2 % annually.

While contemporary organic farms are held to stricter ecological standards, they are still trying to keep up with their conventional rivals in terms of production; that often amounts to measures of cost - cutting.

Digital Journal — August 22, 2013 Calgary, Alberta, Canada (PRWEB)-- Friends of Science express concern that a proposed Alberta wind farm may cause serious problems for conventional North American energy supply while doing nothing to mitigate climate change or global warming.