Sentences with phrase «of tillage practices»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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).

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).

Direction of change depends on initial level of organic matter and subsequent cropping and tillage practices, Fenster and Peterson (1979); Campbell et al. (1991); Ismail et al. (1994).

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.

Global efforts to address climate change can be supported through the uptake of best agricultural practices such as conservation tillage, and increases in productivity that protect carbon sinks from encroachment.