Tractors freed acres of land for production that heretofore had been used only to feed draft animals.
Other species-protection policies have removed thousands of acres of land from production, endangering the livelihoods of farmers and ranchers.
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Prince Charles visited the Jaguar Land Rover production plant at Halewood, marking the start of the former Ford plant's 50th anniversary celebrations.
They also discovered that growing mealworms takes up only about 10 percent of the land used for production of beef, 30 percent of the land used for pork and 40 percent of the land needed for chickens to generate similar amounts of protein.
As a matter of fact, oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land, and gas production is down 9 percent.
Switching every piece of agricultural land to biofuel production would provide just 12% of the requisite juice.
It has a long history in the UK: 350 years ago the Levellers, or Diggers, seized land for food production.
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But unlike biodiesels based on soya or other plants, it does not divert crops or land from food production into fuel production.
Africa needs to take advantage of the fact that it is has some of the best climate and available land for agricultural production.
"There are implications to dedicating more and more crop land to fuel production rather than food production, " said Tyson Clocum of the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen.
And the various trades in movie land from the production designers to the boom operators were likely jazzed by "Pi's" technological achievements, notably the digitally enhanced Bengal tiger that even the movie's harsher critics believed to have stolen the movie from its human actors.
Importantly, higher crop production is resulting from higher yields per acre rather than merely an increase in land dedicated to crop production.
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The U.S., with the most arable land and developed agricultural production, stands to gain from these growing markets.
In farming, just as in anything else, the classical factors of production are land, labour and capital.
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Big increases will be harder to achieve than in the past because there is little unfarmed land to bring into production, no more water and, in some places, little to be gained by heaping on more fertiliser.
Chaos ensued again when the president said that oil production on federal land was up.
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Helmand was the province with the largest amount of land being used for opium production, the report said.
That's where Mr. Romney got his accurate figures on oil and gas production on government land and permitting in Mr. Obama's first term.
Global warming is (1) opening up more land for economically feasible crop production and (2) creating beneficial growing conditions that are increasing yields per acre on agricultural lands.
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Dr Feng counters fears about a grain embargo, by pointing out that any land used in other food production could fairly quickly be re-converted to grain in an emergency.
Indirect Land Use Change is a fundamentally flawed concept whereby European government bureaucrats would seek to punish biofuel producers in this case American for the supposed indirect impact that their production has on land use and food prices in the developing world.
In China, the software is being used to help the government as it spends billions of dollars to improve hydropower production, increase forested land to help store and meet out water, and make sure there is enough water for irrigation needs, among other goals.
If so, they would have discovered that the Geneva negotiations kept coasting in a fantasy land where the realities of pharmacological production processes and advances in biotechnology do not exist, and where the many dismal failures of other, much less difficult international inspection efforts have never occurred.
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Thailand's machinery of production -- labor, land, infrastructure -- has also become more inexpensive in dollar terms.
Private companies and co-operatives will be allowed to own land, farm machinery, boats and production equipment, but not buildings.
For example, Malaysia restricts its palm oil production to 20% of the land which is allocated for agricultural purposes.
Aside from enriching big farmers, the main impact of the subsidies is to encourage over-production and inflate the value of land suitable for program crops.
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