Sentences with phrase «by tillage»

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One writer, we saw, tells how the practice of the peasant in his tillage and care of his crops was taught to him by the Lord (Isa.

Thus George Herbert notes that his «country parson» condescends even to the knowledge of tillage and pasturage, and makes great use of them in teaching, because people by what they understand are best led to what they understand not.

Tillage and farming system affect AM fungus populations, mycorrhizal formation, and nutrient uptake by winter wheat in a high - P soil.

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.

«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;

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.

Through reduced tillage in farming — no - till being the prime example — and systems using cover crops and residue, those are major ways agriculture can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials and stored in 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.

Encouraging the fungal community and increasing carbon inputs from roots by minimizing tillage and planting perennial crops enhances soil structure and increases carbon storage times.

Tillage tells the story of his life as the son of a southern sharecropper, who was killed by the KKK, and of the changes brought about by the civil rights movement.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

There is an extensive literature on the improvement in N fertilizer use efficiency achieved by deep banding in zero tillage systems, but no studies on N2O emissions.

Crop rotations including pulse crops and oilseeds are being recommended for zero tillage cropping systems and are being adopted by farmers in western Canada.

This trial will analyze how farmers can best compete against weeds by utilizing a crop rather than tillage.

More than 10 000 years ago, agricultural societies accelerated these early defaunation and land clearing processes, ultimately replacing them with even more novel ecological transformations, including the culture of domesticated species, widespread soil tillage, sustained societal growth, and ever - increasing scales of material exchange, leading to globally significant transformation of the terrestrial biosphere by at least 3000 years before the present time.

We have already seen a lot of interest from our farming clients in this new opportunity since until now, farmers could only participate in the carbon markets by adopting sustainable tillage practices.

About 91 % of farmers are practicing the technology at different levels depending on the component adopted out of the six, namely minimum land tillage; laying out fixed planting basins; no burning of crop residues; planting and input application in basins; and rotation with nitrogen - fixing crops for soil fertility restitution, outlined by the Conservation Farming Unit (CFU).

No - till provides measurable improvements over traditional tillage, by reducing carbon emissions (CO2 or greenhouse gases).

Another general legacy of agricultural land use has been the creation of anthropogenic soils (anthrosols)(85), including the manure - enriched «plaggen» soils of Northwestern Europe, which may date to 4000 B.C. (86), the «terra preta» of the Amazon basin enriched with charcoal dating perhaps to 500 B.C. (87) and potentially in Africa (88), together with a wide range of anthrosols altered by sustained tillage, irrigation, manuring, and other land - use practices (83, 89).

The set of feasible crop rotations may be restricted by the choice of tillage system.

Mineralization of N is influenced by the mixing action of the tillage system, for tillage based systems mineralization peaks after tillage with low rates of mineralization between tillage operations.

This analytical report published by Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) outlines four key climate - smart agriculture techniques: conservation agriculture (tillage, cover crops, and rotation), irrigation, agroforestry, and soil conservation structures.

The United States — which over the last two decades retired one tenth of its cropland, most of it highly erodible, and shifted to conservation tillage practices — has reduced soil erosion by 40 percent.

By destroying the natural soil fertility and disturbing the soil through tillage, industrial farming also adds to the deterioration of soil and its carbon emissions.