Sentence examples for farming intensity from inspiring English sources

Farming intensity had a positive effect on crop productivity (β = 0.32).

Successful farm practices included improved landscape engineering, improved crop management and reductions in farming intensity.

Therefore, the indirect effect of farming intensity on crop productivity through a change of weed pressure was positive and accounted for 7% of the total (direct + indirect) effect of farming intensity on crop productivity.

The reduction of farming intensity creates the heterogeneity within restored wetlands and abandoned paddy fields, significantly improving carabid diversity.

In order to reduce the farming intensity and increase habitat heterogeneity, wetlands are often created in agricultural landscapes.

Farming intensity decreased weed pressure and had a sufficiently negative effect on weeds (β = −0.19) to counteract the negative impact of weeds on crop productivity.

One of the methods considered is the life cycle assessment (LCA) method, which was used to assess the environmental impacts of 18 grassland farms in three different farming intensities — intensive, extensified, and organic — in the Allgäu region in southern Germany.

All participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire containing items about activities on the farm, intensity and duration of animal contact and MRSA history.

In these farms, intensity of use of pesticides was significantly associated with PD (for < 12 applications/year, OR = 1.79; 95% CI: 0.78, 4.09; for ≥ 12 applications/year, OR = 3.33; 95% CI: 1.57, 7.07; p-trend < 0.01).

Increases in farming practice intensity and landscape simplification are two well-known threats for many farmland bird species.

"I'm really interested in high production, high intensity farming environments," says Mr Harper.