Sentences with phrase «tillage organic»

The rising interest in no - tillage production practices among organic farmers has recently created considerable advancement in the development of a cover crop - based, reduced tillage organic corn and soybean production.

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Utilizing cover crop mulches to reduce tillage in organic systems in the southeastern USA.

Nearly 61 to 62 gigatons of carbon are lost from this pool as soil organic matter is oxidized by the atmosphere through tillage and erosion.

According to the Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative (TOCMC), which grows the majority of the organic cotton in the U.S., its growers do not use any inputs for weed control, preferring to use mechanical tillage and hand weeding.

Grow Ahead invites women from Africa, Asia or Latin America over 18 years of age to apply for scholarships of up to US$ 2,500 for workshops or trainings in their regions focused on agroecology or regenerative organic agriculture, including (but not limited to) agroforestry, biochar, compost, holistic management, conservation tillage, pasture cropping, silvopasture, permaculture, or other practices that build climate resilience.

It is considered as a holistic and dynamic approach of incorporating organic and permaculture farming practices including crop rotation, conservation tillage, composting, cover crops, pasture cropping, and mobile animal shelters to increases the farmer's income and food production.

Soil building practices such as crop rotations, inter-cropping, symbiotic associations, cover crops, organic fertilizers and minimum tillage are central to organic practices.

This was most probably due to inclusion of a green manure legume crop in the third year of rotation and fewer tillage operations on the organic field.

Sustainable agricultural strategies comprising recycling of organic matter, tightening internal nutrient cycles, and low - or no - tillage practices may rebuild organic matter levels and reduce losses from the system.

For example, the organic matter can be balanced by reduced tillage practices; by double cropping, where two crop varieties are planted in succession in the same growing season; and by the use of cover crops that replenish the soil.

No - till and, to a lesser degree, conservation tillage maintains or improves soil quality by preserving soil structure and moisture, increasing soil organic matter, and providing habitat for soil microbes.

For example, large - scale organic farming relies heavily on tillage.

This method — called cover crop - based organic rotational no - till — allows farmers to skip spring tillage and weeding.

We identified as most promising measures: the promotion of organic inputs on arable land instead of grassland, the introduction of perennials (grasses, trees) on arable set - aside land for conservation or biofuel purposes, to promote organic farming, to raise the water table in farmed peatland, and — with restrictions — zero tillage or conservation tillage.

Promising soil management techniques include controlled grazing; mulching with organic matter; applying manure and biosolids; use of cover crops in the rotation cycle; agroforestry; contour farming; hedgerows; terracing; plastic mulch for erosion control; no - till or conservation tillage; retention of crop residue; appropriate use of water and irrigation; and integrated nutrient management, including the judicious use of chemical fertilizers.

Furthermore, the team found that land that had been cultivated using conservation tillage since the 1980s had been able to recover more than a fourth of the soil organic carbon it had lost.

Keywords Soil carbon, soil organic matter, sequestration, humic substances, humin, land management, tillage practices, soil carbon models, Kyoto Protocol

Unlike organic agriculture, conventional farming uses mechanized tillage, synthetic fertilizers and biocides — all practices that can damage the environment.

Direction of change depends on initial level of organic matter and subsequent cropping and tillage practices, Fenster and Peterson (1979); Campbell et al. (1991); Ismail et al. (1994).