Sentences with phrase «crop nutrient»

The use of these technologies with soil and plant testing to better match fertilizer application with crop nutrient requirements can be modeled at the representative farm level.

These equations — called crop nutrient response functions — also consider local soil properties and climate.

Find out more about the valuable role crop nutrients play in your everyday life, in feeding our growing world, and in protecting our environment.

While the pathogen - reduction aspect of compost lowers its inherent food safety risks, often compost can not satisfy crop nutrient demands and additional fertilizers are required.

In this study, researchers developed crop nutrient response equations for sorghum grown in Sahel areas in Mali and Niger.

Corn yields with today's hybrids do have the potential to increase with the application of protection chemicals and by making crop nutrients more plant - available,» she said.

An experiment in Colombia with a fungi - laden gel paves the way for helping farmers to obtain an essential crop nutrient

The team on the three - year study includes plant pathologists, breeders, crop nutrient managers, economists, weed scientists, entomologists and outreach specialists from Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. Research on organic rice has been in progress at the AgriLife Research facility in Beaumont for at least five years, Zhou said, and results from those studies, along with some from other areas, will be parlayed into the new study.

She is joined representing the agency by AgriLife Research scientists Dr. Jamie Foster, forage management and ecology, Beeville, and Dr. Fugen Dou, crop nutrient management, Beaumont.

Shifting to spring application may also help in reducing N2O emissions by avoiding the spring thaw and allow for a more accurate assessment of expected crop nutrient requirements.

Soil mapping and variable rate fertilizer application are technologies that could help mitigate N2O emissions by matching fertilizer application with crop nutrient use.

Learn more about the science of soil and crop nutrients with Nourishing the Planet in the 21st Century curriculum and other education resources!

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