Sentence examples for conventional farms from inspiring English sources

A study of farms of various sizes and management types (organic and conventional) in Sweden reported that, although organic farms had higher diversity than conventional farms, the biggest differences were found between small organic and large conventional farms.

Environmentally, they beat conventional farms, too.

(It does not regulate manure use on conventional farms).

"But our concern applies to both organic and conventional farms".

Urging political action to slash pesticide use on conventional farms is another, say environmentalists.

For example, the organic farms applied large quantities of manure compared with conventional farms but conducted mechanical weeding (harrowing), whereas conventional farms applied herbicides.

In both years, densities of most species did not differ between organic and conventional farms.

N-fertilizers (43%) and concentrates (30%) accounted for most of the N input on conventional farms.

Increasing proportion of ley on conventional farms did not significantly influence the development of beans.

At a regional and landscape scale, species richness was greater in integrated and conventional farms.

Under current prices, however, habitat management tends to reduce net returns for conventional farms.