Sentences with phrase «of fertilizer application»

However, in most parts of the world, conventional dairying is associated with high levels of grain feeding, the use of cow breeds which produce high milk volumes, and the application of large amounts of fertilizer («high input» farming), while organic dairying is tied to pasture and forage feeding, lower amounts of fertilizer application, and the use of mixed or minority breeds («low input»).

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.

Not exact matches

However, nearly all commercial growers use a preplant fertilizer and regular applications of fertilizer throughout the growing season, undoubtedly because the heavy concentration of peppers depletes the soil and because manure and compost is not generally added to commercial fields.

The local cultivation practices currently followed for conventional rice varieties, including the application of fertilizer, crop protection products, and labor, are directly applicable to the cultivation of those varieties containing the GR2E nutritional trait.

This has been achieved without the application of crop residues and organic fertilizer.

Chemically intensive farming methods can produce short - term benefits for farmers, but they result in the degradation of soil over time, increasing the susceptibility of plants to pests and diseases and requiring ever greater applications of fertilizer in the long - run.

China has been called out in the news numerous times in the past few years for its poor environmental and waste management practices, excessive application of chemicals and fertilizer, and lack of government and food safety regulations.

The Karst region of northern Lithuania has suffered greatly from pollution caused by intensive agriculture and high rates of fertilizer and pesticide application encouraged in the 1950s and 1960s.

«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;

In an effort to reduce the amount of nitrogen getting into bays and other water bodies and to protect groundwater, Suffolk County Legislator Bill Lindsay (D - Holbrook) has introduced a measure aimed at reducing the application of fertilizer.

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.

Agricultural chemistry includes the application of chemical fertilizer, chemical insecticides, and chemical fungicides, soil makeup, analysis of agricultural products, and nutritional needs of farm animals.

This direct application of starter fertilizer is known as in - furrow application.

On the other hand, «the most promising scenarios included widespread use of in - field and edge - of - field nutrient management practices, especially subsurface application of phosphorus fertilizers, expansion of cover crops and creation of buffer strips,» he said.

«Definitely the effects of inorganic fertilizer application on soil properties will depend on tillage and cropping systems,» Blanco says.

And that doesn't take into account the supply chain of natural gas production, energy - related emissions in the production process, fertilizer application (and misapplication) or industrial use of urea and other ammonia products.

For the first time, scientists will have an instant read on how springs respond to all sorts of factors, from fertilizer application to drought or heavy rainfall, says Brian Katz, a geochemist with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

The Salton Sea brine contains a host of other elements, and Simbol hopes to extend the extraction process to manganese and zinc — also used in batteries and metal alloys — as well as potassium, which is a vital nutrient and fertilizer, among other applications.

However, 32 to 37 per cent of the fertilizer N remained in the soil organic matter in 1985 or three years after application, while 12 to 15 per cent still lingered in the soils after three decades.

The scientists predict that about 15 per cent of the initially applied fertilizer N will be exported from the soils towards the groundwater over a time span of almost one century after the 1982 fertilizer application.

Precision agriculture has created a circumstance allowing us to be very precise with the application of inputs [such as fertilizers].

Perhaps, fortunately, there is still a lot of room for improvement by more conventional means: the targeted application of fertilizer and the like.

For example, understanding drop impact phenomena is critical to optimizing the application of fertilizers and pesticides to crops.

One - time phosphate fertilizer application to grassland columns modifies the soil microbiota and limits its role in ecosystem services — Israel Ikoyi, Science of The Total Environment

Changes in the Metagenome of Prokaryotic Community as an Indicator of Fertility of Arable Soddy - Podzolic Soils upon Fertilizer Application — A. N. Naliukhin — Eurasian Soil Science

A dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay also has shrunk in recent years, Magnien said, because of major advances in wastewater treatment, sediment and storm water controls, soil management practices, and more selective and precise applications of fertilizer.

The large - scale application of nitrogenous fertilizers generated via nitrogen fixing is already detectable in sediments remote from civilization, the scientists noted.

However, in low - income regions where populations continue to grow and the food supply is unstable, the cost of fertilizer can hinder additional applications and cripple crop yields.

Nilwala Kottegoda, Veranja Karunaratne, Gehan Amaratunga and colleagues wanted to find a way to slow the breakdown of urea and make one application of fertilizer last longer.

Organic beauty products and foods are spared the application of toxic and persistent insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers.

Beauty products and foods that are made with organic ingredients are spared the application of toxic and persistent insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers.

In addition, the soils are very sandy, which calls for more frequent but light applications of fertilizer.

Although oregano does not demand many nutrients and compost will feed it the whole growing cycle, in poor soils, the application of a fertilizer may be considered in order to enhance growth and development.

He got the information regarding Vitamin B12 from a study that showed this phenomenon, see Mozafar AQ, «Enrichment of some B Vitamins in plants with application of organic fertilizers» Plant and Soil 167 (1994): 305 - 311.

6 Chang, Andrew, et al., «Role of Fertilizer and Micronutrient applications on Arsenic, Cadmium and Lead Accumulation in California Cropland Soils, California Department of Food and Agriculture, 2004.

While the application of chemistry to crop production is still less than 100 years old, the fertilizer industry as now constituted is quite old as years are reckoned in chemical industry.

The rapidly accumulating evidence of soil depletion over wide agricultural areas, the reduction in crop yields on improperly fertilized or unfertilized areas and on others, the reduction of fertility levels to the point where fertilizer applications represent the minimum subsistence diet, combined with an aroused public consciousness of the importance of soil fertility conservation and restoration, will inevitably lead to a demand that the chemical industry provide here the same high order of service which it offers elsewhere in meeting man's aspirations for more abundance and greater efficiency.

There has been considerable controversy over the construction of this course, as some environmentalists believe that a golf course — which typically requires large applications of fertilizer and pesticides — could pose a danger, though run - off, to the ecologies of the barrier reef and sea.

Again, studies show no increase in yields under identical growth conditions, and the strains suffer from the same limitations as all monoculture crops do — in fact, these genetically engineered strains often call for high applications of fertilizer, water and herbicides (which, after all, is why they were engineered to be herbicide resistant).

An important misrepresentation of our paper is the assertion that we are somehow suggesting that fertilizer application in Africa be reduced.

The paper didn't fail to mention what we have reported on before, that corn farming for ethanol using management practices such as commercial fertilizer application, mechanical tillage, and intensive drainage is the most important driver of this increase in nitrogen pollution.

Many previous studies in western Canada on nitrous oxide emissions from zero till systems (all with surface application of N fertilizer) measured only growing season emissions.

They believed that applications in western Canada were less likely, given the relatively good efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer use in this region (by such techniques as banding).

An agronomist with the company reported to us that their main interest in such fertilizers was for applications in developing and / or tropical countries, where present use of nitrogen fertilizers is, in many cases, relatively inefficient (e.g., rice production).

The early results which found higher levels of nitrous oxide emissions from zero till all seem to have employed surface application of N fertilizer.

One possible application could be in zero tillage systems, where coated nitrogen fertilizer might allow considerably higher rates of fertilizer to be applied close to the seed.

Authors in a recent study from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have identified higher emissions from continuously flooded rice, compared to rice which has more frequent periods of water drainage, and a wide range of emissions for other crops due to variation in fertilizer application.

China's nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer application are the highest of any country, accounting for nearly a third of the world's total.

In the 1970s, the objective was increased yields through massive application of fertilizers.

These emissions are primarily released from the 2.2 billion gallons of fossil fuels used for gas - powered mowing and the manufacturing / application of synthetic fertilizers in the US each year.»»