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Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Vegetables · World Ag News
Organic crop production has been shifting to the use of legume green manure, diversified crop rotations and reduced tillage, rather than relying on summerfallow and mechanical tillage for nutrient and pest management
Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Cover Crops · Disease Management · Forage Peas · Holistic Management · Mustard · Oats · Spring Lentils · World Ag News
Overall, the study shows benefits to intercropping, but that the impacts on crop diseases were varied between years, among pathogens, and mixture compositions.
Cover Crops · World Ag News
If Tim Fritz’s experiments are any indication, the next step in cover crop innovation could be tailoring cover mixes to the needs of the cash crop.
Cover Crops · Red clover · World Ag News
On this episode, Dr. Dave Hooker, University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus, and Dan Petker, farmer and red clover grower extraordinaire from Port Rowan, Ont., join host Shaun Haney for a thorough discussion
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Nutrition Management · World Ag News
While low nitrate concentrations in groundwater can occur naturally, the major source of groundwater nitrate in agriculturally dominated areas is nitrogen fertilizer when applied in excess amounts.
Cover Crops · Holistic Management · World Ag News
In 2012, fourth-generation farmer Sam Sluss watched as, yet again, a field alongside a creek was flooded out, taking some topsoil with it. He had a friend no-till rye along that area
Cover Crops · Potatoes · Vegetables · World Ag News
I planted potatoes into the residue of 5 cover crop mixes in Shafter (Kern County). Here are the mixes I planted:
Broad Acre Crops · Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Legumes · Regenerative Agriculture · Rye · Soybeans · Weed Management · World Ag News
So, the fact that the Frantzens and other farmers like them have had success fighting off a mega-weed without herbicides could have larger ramifications for the long-term viability of Corn Belt agriculture.
Annual ryegrass · Broad Acre Crops · Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Legumes · Rye · Soybeans · Weed Management · World Ag News
The goal for the roller-crimper was to kill the rye, lay down a perfect mat of rye straw around the soybeans to keep weeds down and conserve soil moisture, and provide the
Broad Acre Crops · Cover Crops · Legumes · Rye · Soybeans · World Ag News
Cover crops have long been touted as a way to reduce weeds in fields. One University of Missouri study found that one cover crop helps in management of the fast-growing weed waterhemp.