Sentences with phrase «includes tillage»

Key Highlights: • Directed variety of functions including tillage, seeding, harvesting, weed control and fertilizing of nearly 3,000 acres with half acreage of seasonal crop and half in summer fallow to be cropped the following year.

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However, options for reducing tillage in the mid-Atlantic region have been identified and tried, including: (1) rotating annual grain crops with perennial forages; (2) decreasing depth and degree of soil inversion (e.g. chisel... Continued

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.

These variables include practices such as row spacing, type of tillage, use and type of cover crop, amount of compost and amount of nitrogen applied as fertilizer.

«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;

Recommendations include crop rotation best suited to local soils; organically derived pesticides and herbicides; locally produced composted and manure fertilizers; and mulch tillage.

«A lot of the things we're talking about are things that you should be doing for the environment as well as things that are profitable for the farmer, including increasing efficiency and reducing tillage.»

For tilled systems, she included categories that accounted for the type of tillage equipment and tillage depth.

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.

In the paper, he reported that they (University of Alberta and Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development) had compared the two tillage systems (zero till and conventional till) and had included spring thaw emissions as well as growing season emissions.

This review would include determining how these nitrous oxide emissions from zero tillage systems compared with those from conventional tillage, and identifing gaps in knowledge requiring further experiments and studies.

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

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.

Adaptive measures that may prove particularly effective include rainwater harvesting, conservation tillage, maintaining vegetation cover, planting trees in steeply - sloping fields, mini-terracing for soil and moisture conservation, improved pasture management, water re-use, desalination, and more efficient soil and irrigation - water management.

Soil management techniques — which include reducing soil tillage and applying biochar — have the potential to remove up to eight gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent from the atmosphere every year.

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).

Another tool in the soil conservation toolkit — and a relatively new one — is conservation tillage, which includes both no - till and minimum tillage.

Operate farm machinery including but not limited to combines, tractors, sprayers, tillage equipment, semis, and other farm trucks