Sentences with phrase «use of cover crops»

Among these are the shift to minimum - till and no - till farming, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal land.

Among these are the shift to minimum - till and no - till farming, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.

Current farming methods erode and degrade topsoil, but we could reverse that by adopting methods that are less disturbing to the soil and plant roots and by more use of cover crops or «green manures» that add organic matter to the soil, increase soil fertility and water retention, and reduce pests and diseases.

Better efficiencies have been achieved in multiple ways, ranging from the use of precision agriculture technology to optimally timed fertilizer additions and crop demand, to comparatively low - tech solutions such as the use of cover crops that reduce nutrient losses.

Among these are shifting from conventional tillage to minimum - till and no - till, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.

Regenerative farming techniques, such as nutrient management, manure and sludge application, no - till agriculture, use of cover crops, and crop rotations, can rehabilitate degraded or desertified soils, which span a massive 3.57 million square kilometers in China, and correspondingly increase soil carbon sequestration.

Promising soil management techniques include controlled grazing; mulching with organic matter; applying manure and biosolids; use of cover crops in the rotation cycle; agroforestry; contour farming; hedgerows; terracing; plastic mulch for erosion control; no - till or conservation tillage; retention of crop residue; appropriate use of water and irrigation; and integrated nutrient management, including the judicious use of chemical fertilizers.

Long - term use of cover crops and no - till shift soil microbial community life strategies in agricultural soil.

We need to make sure that future - risk farmer tools like crop insurance do not discourage the use of cover crops.

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.

Organic farmers increase organic matter in soil through the use of cover crops, compost and biologically based soil amendments, producing healthy disease and insect resistant plants.

Dr. Hiroshi Uchino of the Tohoku Agricultural Research Center, Japan is the Science Prize winner for his work on the use of cover crops for weed suppression.

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

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.

Lately, Mr. Ducret has been trying to use a variety of cover crops for nutrient management and improve soil fertility.

By Mary Edmonds, Rodale Institute Seasonal Research Technician Rodale Institute is currently in the second year of a series of field trials investigating organic weed management using cover crops.

California winegrowers use cover crops and compost in the vineyards to enrich healthy soils with biomass and vibrant populations of microbes and worms and to prevent erosion and attract helpful insects that prey on pests.

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disease control.

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.

It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmersâ $ ™ families from exposure to harmful chemicals.

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.

Since organic farms are mostly mixed farms, integrating animal husbandry with crop production, using vast and diverse rotations, intercrops and green cover crops, and maintaining soil fertility by cultivating nitrogen fixing legumes, they display a higher diversity of domesticated species than conventional farms.

The management practices that we use include cover cropping, addition of manure and compost, crop rotation, and selective tilling.

This is all thanks to Nick:) One of the tools he uses to spread fertility and cover crop seed is our manure spreader (pictured above), which we were able to purchase last year thanks to a generous grant from the Frontera Farmer Foundation.

While only covering 2.5 % of the world's agricultural land, 25 % of all insecticides and 18 % of all pesticides used worldwide are used on cotton crops.

The second objective was to use the evaluated modules to assess the long - term effects of growing winter wheat as a cover crop on water balances and seed cotton yield under irrigated and dryland conditions, Ale said.

The paper, «Simulated Effects of Winter Wheat Cover Crops on Cotton Production Systems of the Texas Rolling Plains,» is part of the «Crop Modeling and Decision Support for Optimizing Use of Limited Water» collection by the Natural Resources and Environmental Systems Community of ASABE at http://bit.ly/2izRZBY.

The technology controls the amount of light crops receive using a thin covering of nano - tech film that blocks out harmful ultraviolet light while optimizing beneficial light.

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.

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.

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.

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) awards Use of Fertility Enhancing Food, Forage and Cover Crops in Sustainably Managed Agroecosystems: The Bentley Fellowship to Canadian or developing - country students or researchers with a university degree in agriculture, forestry, or biology who wish to undertake postgraduate applied on - farm research in a developing country with cooperating farmers.

The IUCN, using data from British - based environmental group Earthsight, found that palm oil already covers 1,000 square kilometers of Central Africa and that 1 million square kilometers in the region are suitable for the crop.

Some farmers and scientists have looked for ways to replace the chemicals with biological sources of fertilizer such as cover crops that can be plowed under or used as mulch to provide nutrients.

In the demonstration project «Agrophotovoltaic — Resource Efficient Land Use» (APV - Resola)» led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, solar modules for electricity production are installed directly above crops covering an area of one third hectare.

Agronomists in the northern Great Plains have made significant progress over the last 15 yr encouraging the use of pulse crops, green manure, and cover crops to replace fallow land and reduce soil erosion (Miller et al. 2002; Tanaka et al. 2010; Nielsen et al. 2016).

Using methods like planting shrubs, fertilizing with compost, and moving cover crops, the Institute has been able to keep carbon out of the atmosphere and in the soil, where it can better conserve water.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

And as everyone knows, I'll use any excuse to wear my favorite pairs of high - waisted jeans and I think that may have been what changed my mind about a cropped top — finding the perfect high - waisted pant to pair them with to keep me covered up!

Need: Print book cover PDF (for Createspace) and a cropped jpg of the front cover for the ebook cover; source files and commercial rights to images / fonts used (as needed)

Graphite is used in all of our so - called «green» powered batteries and is mined in China emitting deadly fine air particles resulting in a lethal smog that washes down from the skies in an ash laden rain that covers crops and water.

Our discussion centered on strategies focused on mechanical means of suppressing weeds or the use of secondary (or «cover») crops.

This includes expanding the area of minimum - or no - till cropland, planting more cover crops during the off - season, and using more perennials instead of annuals in cropping patterns.

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 fieluse.25, 26 Use of agricultural best management practices can also improve water quality by reducing the loss of sediments and nutrients from farm fielUse of agricultural best management practices can also improve water quality by reducing the loss of sediments and nutrients from farm fields.

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.

Rodale Institute's Research Department investigates a number of scientific and regenerative farming issues, including cover crop practices, organic weed management, organic no - till systems, compost use, influences of agricultural practices on water quality, and effects of mycorrhizae and other soil biota on crop and soil health, and yields.

Examples of these practices are the use of organic fertilizers and crop rotations including legume leys and cover crops.

Organic agriculture (OA) has a significant potential contribution in this respect: practices that are commonly used on organic farms (use of organ - ic fertilizers, fertility building leys with legumes and cover crops) further the production of soil or - ganic matter (Smith et al., 2008; Leifeld and Fuhrer, 2010, Chirinda et al. 2010a).

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

These guys (e.g. Lobell) try to explain the level and trend of crop yields (often on a grid scale covering the globe, given you have sufficient data) using statistical models that include all kinds of independent variables (soils, input use, varieties, pressure by pests, management etc.).