Sentences with phrase «planting cover crops.managed»

Examples of LIVE vineyard practices include planting cover crops, maintaining natural areas for wild life and forgoing many chemical sprays.

Planting a cover crop mixture of cereal and legumes can provide the dual benefits of weed suppression and fertility provision.

About 15 % of Australian farms are use «conservation farming» — a mix of techniques ranging from rotational grazing, planting cover crops and no till direct seeding high tech approaches of GPS guided equipment and pinpoint «face recognition» spraying of weeds.

Other techniques, such as planting cover crops and no - till soil management, can further increase CO2 uptake and reduce energy use.25, 26 Use of agricultural best management practices can also improve water quality by reducing the loss of sediments and nutrients from farm fields.

Growers can manage the potential risks linked to extreme rain events and soil degradation by using adaptive strategies such as planting cover crops, using no - till techniques, increasing the biodiversity of grasses and forage and extending crop rotations, Prokopy said.

In Green Tour, viewers get a snapshot of what sustainable winegrowing means — from using solar energy and preserving water, to planting cover crops between vine rows for soil health and attracting beneficial insects.

Monitoring for pests and diseases; monitoring water use; planting cover crops; and reducing tillage are all associated with significant cost savings.

An outside organization would verify their performance on a variety of socially and environmentally responsible practices, ranging from installing solar panels, recycling corks, planting cover crops or reducing use of pesticides.

Liska agrees that using some of the residue to make electricity, or planting cover crops, would reduce carbon emissions.

Forests predominated; plant cover was maintained on cultivated ground, thereby renewing its organic material and nutrients, or natural fertility; the climate contributed efficiently to agricultural yield, and the rivers and underground springs were plentiful and of excellent quality; the fauna was abundant (Espinoza, 168).

The new plant covers an area of approximately 4.4 ha and has a total floor area of 8,720 m ².

The plant covers an area of 363,000 ft ² and was completed in June 2013.

Yes, it was a chiltepin chile plant covered in hot, hot red chiles.

the permanent plant cover in organic systems which results in a more efficient uptake of mobile nitrogen in soils, thus reducing the potential and risk for N2O emissions.

The foundation is national in scope and designed to prove that under wise use of the land a healthy ecology will result in abundant wildlife and better plant cover, yet at the same time provide long - term economic returns as great as, or greater than, those derived through overgrazing and bad farming practices.

Walk on trails to experience varieties in terrain, observe erosion and discover two methods used to slow erosion; play an active game that simulates water flowing downhill and how plant cover reduces erosion; and work as a team to create a model that maps the shapes and types of landforms and bodies of water at Moose Hill.

Per the site map of SEZ and Anator Holding Co. Ltd Projects, also in possession of this paper, the project will have at least 25 facets including a Nuclear Power Plant covering about 50,000 acres of land.

Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity.

There's oxygen in our atmosphere that is the result of photosynthesis, but if that's what they're looking for, they could have found out that plants covered the Earth a billion, 2 billion years ago.

«When you think from a climate point of view, you're not having carbon uptake across all this landscape for many decades when there's very little plant cover,» study co-author Steve Running, a University of Montana professor who models ecosystem functions, said.

Working with Christopher Webster, a Michigan Tech University professor and Purdue alumnus, Jenkins and then - master's student Lindsay Jenkins (no relation) tested the effectiveness of the hunting program by comparing the amount of plant cover in 108 plots in state parks and historically hunted areas with 1996 - 97 levels.

This plant covers 74 acres and sucks up at least 300 megawatts of electricity most of the time, peaking at as much as 2,000 megawatts (much of it from a coal - fired power plant nearby), to heat uranium hexafluoride until it gasifies and then force it through 1,760 porous membranes that gradually concentrate the level of the fissile isotope — a method invented during World War II.

They found that total plant cover in state parks more than doubled from 1996 - 97 to 2010.

Tree seedlings jumped from about 2 percent to about 13 percent of total plant cover, a finding that suggests when older trees die out, there will be younger trees to replace them, Jenkins said.

While the overall amount of plant cover at various levels was stable over the period, the distribution of individual species changed markedly.

Understory plant cover for both native and nonnative invasive species was positively associated with the AM fungi, however, invasive species cover increased at a rate 12 times greater than native species as AM - tree - dominance increased.

Since they destroy the plant cover, they are an aggravating risk factor.

Using satellite data, the scientists then assessed how this new tree and plant cover would drive three climate feedbacks: water vapor in the air, carbon absorption by plants and the reflectivity of the Earth's surface.

For three years, they planted cover crops like hairy vetch - triticale and cereal rye, followed by cash crops like corn and soybeans.

«When you think from a climate point of view, you're not having carbon uptake across all this landscape for many decades when there's very little plant cover,» study co-author

Farmers now plant cover crops, such as oats or barley, that use up fertilizer that once washed away into rivers.

A woman develops a tattoo - like mark on her arm, then begins to grow tiny twigs and buds along one arm and she walks away into a meadow, where we see she has become a woody human - shaped plant covered with small flowers and another person develops a figure - 8 mark on one forearm, but she changes no further.

«The strengthened connection between Redwood Creek and its historic floodplain, increased native plant cover and resulting wildlife cover, reduced flooding, improved access, and expanded education and volunteer stewardship opportunities make the Redwood Creek Restoration Project one of the most important of its kind on the West Coast.»

Where sheep grazing was prevalent, the native plant cover has been damaged, and erosion and gullying has been a problem in some areas.

Furthermore, multiple game features point back at that key challenge of taking cover, making the whole experience coherent and consistent: Shields that let you plant a cover where needed, enemy to be used as meat shield, invulnerable rock worms to hide behind as they move which let you access a vantage point... All contribute in and deepen the concept of cover, lending a symbolic nature to gameplay that make it a focused learning experience.

The hydrologic cycle can change because of changes in plant cover — it's a common observation that after a forest fire or logging, streams and springs will flow higher and longer for a period of years.

In addition to producing full, up - to - date and compelling views of our planet, the images taken by EPIC will provide scientists with valuable atmospheric data on the ozone, plant cover, aerosols and clouds.

Plant cover is more than just a sequestering source for carbon, it also raises the heat capacity of land.

Built by Acciona Solar Power, the 64 - MW solar thermal power plant covers 400 acres.

These authors observed that plant cover is already completely destroyed over 450 km ² within gas and oil fields and 1800 km ² along the main pipelines.

Plant cover captures carbon dioxide, stores it into biomass and releases oxygen through photosynthesis.

* Uses organic waste for compost and plants a cover crop under banana plants to enrich the soil and prevent erosion.

Dust storms will become more common in the Southwest region of the United States of America as drier conditions caused by climate change kill off plant cover, raising a dust bowl specter say government scientists.

Yet, the First Climate team was trusted with another, rather unexpected task: «Today we are going to clear the moorlands of tree and plant cover where it deprives the floor of moisture and hinders proper re-saturation,» explained Stephen Wehner.

(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.

Soil carbon sequestration is often conceived of as optimizing inputs and plant cover to restore carbon lost from past land use (West and Marland 2002; Brown et al. 2004; Lal 2004); global soils have lost an estimated 230 Pg C due to land use in the last 10,000 y (Lal 2001), and conventional cultivation decreases soil carbon by 25 — 50 % after 30 — 50 years (Johnson 1992; Post and Kwon 2000).

The energy balance of a given land area is determined primarily by the albedo and ET, associated with plant cover type and productivity (Pielke and Avissar 1990).

Keep plants covered with shade cloth until the leaves on the plants are large enough to shade the fruit.

I love how these pretty plants and plant covers really brighten up my dining area.

Not exact matches

Reporting based on an entire harvest could be misleading, as unscrupulous companies could attempt to cover up for plants lost due to powdery mildew or other pests.