fertiliser

A farm is not in the diesel and fertiliser business.

Generally speaking, GMO crops are lower-yielding than heirloom varieties, unless you apply the requisite fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides.

They used the waterfall to make electricity and then they used the electricity to make fertiliser, hence the location.

The plants were mostly grown in petroluem based fertiliser, factory farming of crops puts 10 calories in to get 1 out.

Were these the guys who adapted their technology to fire fertiliser pellets into the ground from the air, for agricultural purposes?

You have to understand with the big agriculture companies control the prices of seed, fertiliser and food, farmers hardly made any money.

I've recently imagined a spindly-legged robot that left a charging home base with water, poison, seeds and fertiliser.

So instead of using cow slurry to fertilise crops the US uses oil based fertiliser and has millions of gallons of cow slurry in lagoons.

If they can automate the recycling of sewage into clean water, fertiliser and leftovers, and they had water storage, they could ditch their water bill.

It's either incinerated or turned into fertiliser and biogas via anaerobic digestion in an industrial process not just left to rot naturally like in home composting.

We consume too much: * fossil fuels * trees * fish * food & fertiliser & antibiotics It'll be difficult to convince others to spend less.

C4 rice would require considerably less fertiliser than C3 rice.

The separation of livestock fed on subsidised corn from farms growing plants means lakes of "waste" manure that used to be used as fertiliser become an environmental problem instead of a solution.

"Organic" is not purely used in marketing but describes the method of production and indicates the specifics of the husbandry and nutrition of animals and the type of fertiliser and conditions of growth of plants.