Sentences with phrase «of tillage»

Beyne NV, a Belgian manufacturer of agricultural sprayers, has taken over Vogel & Noot, an Austrian producer of tillage and seeders, which went bankrupt in August 2016.

A cropping system is a combination of tillage system, rotation, cropping strategy and technology.

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.

Cropping strategy refers to how inputs and technology are coordinated with the choice of tillage system and rotation.

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

We did not find to date any published studies which compared the effects of type of tillage system and nitrogen fertilizer placement method on nitric oxide emissions.

In an effort to detect consistent patterns across a large geographical area, University of Illinois researchers conducted a meta - analysis of 62 studies examining the effect of tillage on soil microbes.

In tilled systems, the type of tillage equipment mattered.

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

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.

Drinkwater, L., Janke, R. & Rossoni - Longnecker, L. Effects of tillage intensity on nitrogen dynamics and productivity in legume - based grain systems.

What form of tillage are you using.

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.

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Fire, the source of being: we cling so tenaciously to the illusion that fire comes forth from the depths of the earth and that its flames grow progressively brighter as it pours along the radiant furrows of life's tillage.

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.

Cattle are abundant, and especially buffaloes, which are universally employed for tillage; and amongst the objects of cultivation to which the climate is adapted are Indian corn, millet, yams, potatoes, and cassava.

Utilization of Pelletized Starter Fertilizers in Cover Crop - Based, Reduced Tillage Organic Corn Production Gladis Zinati1, a *, Rachel Atwell2, b, Steven Mirsky3, c, Chris Reberg - Horton4, b, Rae Moore5, a, and Jeff Moyer6, a 1Associate Research Scientist, 2Graduate Student, 3Research Ecologist, 4Associate Professor, 5Research Technician, and 6Executive Director... Continued

The rising interest in no - tillage production practices among organic farmers has recently created considerable advancement in the development of a cover crop - based, reduced tillage organic corn and soybean production.

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

Koopmans, Chris; Rietberg, P.I. and Burgt, G.J.H.M. (2014) Calibration and adaptation of the NDICEA model to reduced tillage systems: Final - report of the Tilman CORE Organic II project.

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.

According to the Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative (TOCMC), which grows the majority of the organic cotton in the U.S., its growers do not use any inputs for weed control, preferring to use mechanical tillage and hand weeding.

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.

Organic grape growing avoids the use of synthetic chemicals and uses natural methods like crop rotation, tillage and natural composts to maintain soil health as well as natural methods to control weeds, insects and other pests.

The industry claims that this farming system requires less skills and knowledge than the conventional farming system because farmers do not have to select among a range of herbicide active ingredients, carefully time their herbicide application and apply other non-chemical control practices such as plowing, deep tillage or manual weeding.

Current approaches to ecological agriculture such as integrated pest management, integrated plant nutrition systems and conservation tillage, consider only one aspect of the farming system components: pest ecology, plant ecology and soil ecology, respectively.

This was most probably due to inclusion of a green manure legume crop in the third year of rotation and fewer tillage operations on the organic field.

Thus the local amount of weed - free soil is the same as with tillage of the whole tree strip.

Sustainable agricultural strategies comprising recycling of organic matter, tightening internal nutrient cycles, and low - or no - tillage practices may rebuild organic matter levels and reduce losses from the system.

Smith et al. (1997) calculated a considerable potential increase of soil carbon when manure, straw - recycling, minimal tillage, reforestation and energy - saving plant production are combined.

«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;

«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.»

In addition, however, agriculture's use of fossil energy could be reduced as a mitigation step, Rice said: «When we make agriculture more efficient and use less tillage, we're also using less energy.

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.

Growing corn continuously under conventional tillage and with high inputs of water and fertilizer may seem outmoded, but this management system is «not uncommon,» as demand for corn grain and crop residues grow, Blanco says.

They have other benefits, such as reducing the need for plowing and other soil tillage — which is costly in terms of energy use and may contribute to soil erosion.

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

Because tillage periodically disturbs the soil, it may also negate any benefits of fertilization.

Researchers found that seeds unearthed during tillage had a very low percentage of viability.

Where no - till is compared with tillage, the type of equipment and tillage depth also differs.

In contrast to other tillage equipment, such as moldboard plows or disc plows, the use of chisel plows was associated with greater microbial biomass.

Chisel plows, which theoretically result in minimal soil disturbance, are commonly used as part of a conservation tillage system.

According to Mr. Charles Darwin, they give a kind of under tillage to the land, performing the same below ground that the spade does above for the garden, and the plow for arable soil.

According to Fernández, the best place for strip till is in fields with a lot of crop residue and conditions that tend to be cool and wet in the spring and where farmers prefer not to do conventional tillage.

Agri is from Latin ager («a field»), and culture is from Latin cultura, meaning «cultivation» in the strict sense of «tillage of the soil.»

With herbicide resistance on the rise, more farmers are making tillage the foundation of their integrated weed management program.

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.

It offers a full line of tractors, combines, hay tools, sprayers, forage equipment, tillage, implements, grain storage and protein production systems as well as replacement parts.