Sentence examples for crops fed from inspiring English sources

Crops fed to farm animals in the U.S. are also examined.

"Half the improvement we make over the next 10 to 15 years will come from improving the feedstocks," said Gerald A. Tuskan, a biofuel expert in the department, referring to the crops fed into the ethanol factories.

"The environmental footprint of agriculture has to do with the crops fed to livestock but also the waste part of animal agriculture," Ken Sullivan, Smithfield chief executive, said in an interview.

The optimal duration for the use of contaminated crops as fodder depended on a number of factors such as radionuclide, variety of crops fed as fodder and duration of the action.

Gary Hirshberg, chairman of Stonyfield Farms, the organic yogurt company, has raised more than $1 million for the Just Label It campaign to influence the F.D.A. after fighting approval of engineered alfalfa, arguing that cross-pollination would contaminate organic crops fed to cows.

His proposition: my bees pollinate your crops, your crops feed my bees.

These crops feed their own families and the surplus can be sold to generate even more income.

Rice is one of the most important cereal crops, feeding more than 50% population of the world.

Imagine that you spend most of your day ploughing fields, sowing seeds, spraying fertilisers or pesticides, harvesting crops, feeding livestock (if you have any), repairing fences, and maintaining a half-dozen different kinds of farm machinery.

Rice is one of the most important staple food crops feeding almost half of the world population.

Lead editor, Mark Sutton from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology near Edinburgh, told BBC News that 80% of the nitrogen in crops feeds livestock, not people.