Sentences with phrase «other tillage»

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

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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.

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.

Likewise, reduced tillage, cover crops, intensified cropping systems, and other conservation practices are known to build the soil long - term.

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.

Among the other practices, ley cropping systems and cover crops gave better performances than straw incorporation and reduced tillage.

However, N2O emissions from deep placement of N were obtained after other rainfall events, all indicating that deep placement reduced N2O emissions from zero till to levels as low as from N fertilizer incorporated in the surface layer in conventional tillage.

agroforestry, biochar, compost, holistic management, conservation tillage, pasture cropping, silvopasture, permaculture, and other climate resilient practices.

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).

Their findings showed that spring N2O emission was higher for CT while growing season emission was dependent on factors other than tillage.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that minimum tillage, improved crop varieties, and more judicious use of fertilizers and agri - chemicals had helped farmers increase the margin between inputs and outputs, but I'm not sure there aren't other factors at play, as well.

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