Crop residue

Sunflower plants grow well in average to rich soils. They need to grow their roots deep and wide, to enable them to withstand strong winds. If you have a choice, sandy soils are not recommended, as they are easily uprooted in loose soil. Rich soil is important, when growing giant varieties. Contrary to its name, we found they will tolerate some shade as we put them against an east wall of our house every year. However, they will grow their best in full sun. Deep roots help sunflowers to…

In the United States, pesticides were found to pollute every stream and over ninety present of wells sampled in a study by the U.S. Geological Survey. Pesticide residues have also been found in rain and groundwater. There are few major routes through which pesticides reach the water: it may drift outside of the intended area when it is sprayed, it may percolate, or leach, through the soil, it may be carried to the…

BC Ancient Egyptians were the first to use irrigation around 3100 BC in the Mesopotamian plain. As settlers learned how to cultivate different crops or grain, they needed a more efficient way of taking care of their land. One of the greatest applications to farming and agriculture was the process of irrigation; the supplement of water to land and crops to help them grow (Renault). As the reproduction rates in society increased, people needed a way of producing an abundance of food quicker to…

Global warming, the increase of Earth’s atmospheric temperature, and climate change, the long-term change in Earth’s climate, are enormous, controversial topics in today’s world. One possible cause of these two happenings -- human activity. This worldwide issue needs to be researched and focused on by the people. The long hot temperatures, excessive weather, and other abnormalities may be effects of global warming and climate change. In addition, if humans are to blame, all should know more…

genetically modified seed that was capable of withstanding “its own herbicide” and allow farmers to have a “convenient way to spray fields with weed killer without affecting crops” (819). Because they are the bigger company, they often try to contact farmers into buying their seeds and to not collect the ones from their crops at the end of the harvesting season. This has resulted in the farmers having to lose out on profits (they had to buy new seeds instead of using their own) and regular…

shelf- life since the structural and metabolic integrity of organic plants is greater than crops that have been grown conventionally. This enables the food to be stored for a longer period of time. Food that has been grown organically contains more nutrients than food that has been grown conventionally. The vitamin and mineral content in a food item is what determines its nutritional value. Since the crops are grown organically, nutrients contained in the soil are passed on to animals and plants…

GMOs: The Truth Revealed As we get up in the morning and prepare for work or school eating a healthy breakfast is certainly on our mind. Who would not want to fuel their body for the day? Well, if you have eaten already today, chances are you have had food that has been touched by science as well as good old Mother Nature. Up to 80 percent of processed foods in the U.S. have been directly changed by man from the original, natural way it would grow on its own. Except for organic foods, the…

If animal agriculture had this much of an impact over one hundred and seventy years ago, imagine the magnitude of impact it is having today. To provide land for the livestock, feed crops, slaughterhouses, and grazing fields, animal agriculture uses nearly seventeen million square miles of land. That’s about thirty percent of the earth’s land mass. Twenty-six percent of all ice-free land, seventy percent of all farming land, and thirty percent of all plant land surface is dedicated to animal…

where their next meal was coming from. For the Egyptians, wheat and barley were the most commonly grown crops, these crops were used to make bread and beer of the civilization. The ancient Egyptian were known as “bread eaters” by people living around Egypt,…

FDA does not have any regulations on hexane residue in foods. As the soy protein isolate in Clif Builders is not organic, it is almost certainly processed with hexane. Even more troubling is the research done by The Cornucopia Institute on the prevalence of hexane traces in soy foods. The institute found hexane residues as high as 21 ppm (parts per million) in processed soy ingredients. As a point of reference, the European Union limits hexane residues in foods to a maximum of 10 ppm. Hexane…