Sentences with phrase «based fertilizer applications»

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Crop Manager is a computer - and mobile phone - based application that provides farmers with fertilizer advice matching their particular farming conditions.

For instance, Buckley notes, on one computer simulation for 4th graders of plants growing in a greenhouse, kids could move the plants around and identify, based on growth patterns, which were sun - versus shade - loving plants, and which fertilizer application rate proved most effective.

The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, brings together dozens of studies from across the globe that analyzed how nitrous oxide emissions increased based on different rates of fertilizer application.

The study compared a conventional farm that used recommended fertilizer and pesticide applications with an organic animal - based farm (where manure was applied) and an organic legume - based farm (that used a three - year rotation of hairy vetch / corn and rye / soybeans and wheat).

Of course ground - based spaying, fertilizer application, etc. can be used, at little or no extra cost, where planes do not have access due to very close proximity to the turbines.