Sentence examples for feed crops from inspiring English sources

So much corn is taken up by this that less is left for feed crops.

Farmers here still run relatively small herds, and they raise their own feed crops.

Only farms that grow low-value animal feed crops like hay, corn or beans are attracted to one-year leases.

Milk and milk products are the major sources of farm income in this region, with feed crops being important.

Feed crops gobble up some 70% of agricultural land, while a quarter of the world's land is devoted to grazing.

To date, most bioethanol is derived from conventional food and animal feed crops such as corn and sugarcane.

Growing feed crops, for cattle and pigs, produces more of those emissions than crops that go directly into the human food chain.

Cities and empires have been built on diverting rivers and moving water over vast distances to feed crops and people in ever-growing numbers.

This is currently banned under EU rules but could reduce the need for typical animal feed crops such as soya, which is linked to deforestation.

Of the roughly $200 billion spent to subsidize U.S. commodity crops from 1995 to 2010 (commodity crops are interchangeable, storable foods such as grains and certain beans, and cotton), roughly two-thirds went to animal-feed crops, tobacco and cotton.

Raising a cow requires the use of a relatively large amount of feed-crops such as wheat or soybeans and, as the world's population grows, competition for those crops will increase.