On our drive from Boise, Idaho to Park City, Utah we saw farmers spraying their crops from planes.
And there are legitimate grievances, such as the north's rampant farm-sector protectionism that keeps competitive crops from poorer nations out.
But this device was once one of the most important tools in the world, used to cut grass for hay and harvest crops from fields.
In June Biosecurity New Zealand, the government agency charged with protecting the country's crops from such threats, announced that this new bacterium had also been detected in potato crops.
The plan to source 200, 000 tonnes a year of energy crops from local farms as well as importing more than 2.4m tonnes of wood from abroad was not sustainable, he said.
There are ghosts of dozens of conversations in the hallways, stories I remember about buying new plows that now rust in the barnyard and ruined crops from the same vines that we are now harvesting.
Selecting the most promising crops from research conducted at the University of Illinois and drawing on the experience of the farmers we visited in Germany and Austria, we found that the economics and logistics of biomass production and its use on our farm and in our community looked very promising.
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Take M-Farm, an app designed to offer Kenyan farmers information about the retail price of their products and allow them to buy crops directly from manufacturers.
According to the article, some keepers had lost seventy per cent of their colonies, and these losses, in turn, were likely to reduce the yields of crops ranging from kiwis to avocados.
EU. But separating contraband corn from acceptable varieties is no easy task, despite education campaigns for farmers and attempts by the country's big grain handlers, such as Archer Daniels Midland, to divert unapproved crops away from export channels.
And tonight, I ask the Congress to support an innovative proposal to provide food assistance by purchasing crops directly from farmers in the developing world, so we can build up local agriculture and help break the cycle of famine.
"In particular, you have to assume how non-linear the response will be and how different the crops of tomorrow will be from the crops of today, " he said.
"Bad weather in spring prevented honey bees in many areas from collecting nectar from early flowering crops such as oil seed rape, and the rain continued in many places throughout June and July preventing honey bees from foraging on later crops, " he said.
The latest example is his uncritical coverage of a National Research Council report on genetically engineered crops ("Study Says Overuse Threatens Gains From Modified Crops, " April 14).
The first of these NSF-funded citizens groups tackled regulatory policy toward agricultural biotechnology and recommended that the government tighten regulations for cultivating genetically engineered crops, including a new requirement that the foods from these crops be labeled to identify them for consumers.
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The new policy will limit to just 5% the proportion of biofuels that are produced from crops.
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It would be easy for a visitor to mistake some of the sugarcane crops in Jeanerette from marshland.
An announcement by ministers of incentives for using fuel made from crops could prove a boon for the West's farmers.
He said sheep could cope in temperatures as low as -20C (-4F), and crops were protected from frost by the snow.
But unlike biodiesels based on soya or other plants, it does not divert crops or land from food production into fuel production.
This is especially important because some experts think the next wave of genetically modified crops may come from government-funded labs as well as industry ones.
But the proceeds from those crops were not enough to meet the rising living costs.
The study detects a shift from field crops towards higher-value horticulture and livestock farming.
Now the EU is trying to shift biofuel production from food crops to farm waste, algae and straw.
The EU is changing its policy on biofuels to encourage energy production from waste rather than from food crops.
Producing fuel from plant crops is supposed to be greener than drilling for oil, and biofuels generally burn cleaner, too.
Those that have done best are now moving away from staple crops to higher-value things such as flowers and fruit.
Mr Inama also fears that some crops will be transferred from excluded countries into the chosen 48, for duty-free export to Europe.
While Americans seem happy enough to consume food made from GM crops, opinion polls continue to show that European consumers dislike the idea.
Ethanol produced from food crops is an economic monstrosity that would require far more space than available here to spell out in proper detail.
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