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Book Managing Cover Crops Profitably  3rd Ed

Download or read book Managing Cover Crops Profitably 3rd Ed written by Andy Clark and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.

Book Rice is Life Scientific Perspectives for the 21st Century

Download or read book Rice is Life Scientific Perspectives for the 21st Century written by and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Estimation of Available Phosphorus in Soils by Extraction with Sodium Bicarbonate

Download or read book Estimation of Available Phosphorus in Soils by Extraction with Sodium Bicarbonate written by Sterling Robertson Olsen and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agriculture and the Nitrogen Cycle

Download or read book Agriculture and the Nitrogen Cycle written by Arvin Mosier and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nitrogen is an essential element for plant growth and development and a key agricultural input-but in excess it can lead to a host of problems for human and ecological health. Across the globe, distribution of fertilizer nitrogen is very uneven, with some areas subject to nitrogen pollution and others suffering from reduced soil fertility, diminished crop production, and other consequences of inadequate supply. Agriculture and the Nitrogen Cycle provides a global assessment of the role of nitrogen fertilizer in the nitrogen cycle. The focus of the book is regional, emphasizing the need to maintain food and fiber production while minimizing environmental impacts where fertilizer is abundant, and the need to enhance fertilizer utilization in systems where nitrogen is limited. The book is derived from a workshop held by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) in Kampala, Uganda, that brought together the world's leading scientists to examine and discuss the nitrogen cycle and related problems. It contains an overview chapter that summarizes the group's findings, four chapters on cross-cutting issues, and thirteen background chapters. The book offers a unique synthesis and provides an up-to-date, broad perspective on the issues of nitrogen fertilizer in food production and the interaction of nitrogen and the environment.

Book Improving the Efficiency of Fall Applied Nitrogen with Cover Crops

Download or read book Improving the Efficiency of Fall Applied Nitrogen with Cover Crops written by Corey G. Lacey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nitrate loss studies in Midwestern tile-drained fields have found that fall applied nitrogen (N) resulted in elevated nitrate concentrations in tile water during both the corn and soybean year of a 2 year rotation. The effectiveness of cover crops to reduce nitrate leaching when N is spring applied has been well demonstrated, however there is a dearth of knowledge on the ability of cover crops to reduce nitrate leaching in a system where N is fall applied. Thus, the objectives of this research were to (i) investigate the efficacy of winter cover crops to reduce nitrate leaching from fall applied nitrogen and (ii) investigate the impact of cover crops on N mineralization in the spring before planting main crops. The experimental site was located at the Illinois State University Research and Teaching Farm in Lexington, IL. All treatments received fall nitrogen at a rate of 200 kg ha-1 into standing cereal rye, tillage radish and control (no cover crop). Cover crops were sampled and analyzed for total nitrogen to calculate N-uptake. Soil samples were collected during the fall and spring months and analyzed for nitrate and ammonium. Despite variable weather conditions, both cover crop treatments demonstrated the potential to reduce nitrate leaching compared to a no cover crop control. The tillage radish treatment resulted in consistently greater soil inorganic N compared to other treatment immediately before planting. In contrast, cereal rye residue slowly decomposed over time and resulted in a slower rate of mineralization. Therefore, both cover crop species increased the efficiency of fall applied N by reducing nitrate leaching and increasing inorganic N at the soil surface.

Book Intensive Cropping

Download or read book Intensive Cropping written by Sohan S Prihar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-01-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore new concepts for maximizing crop yields! Intensive Cropping: Efficient Use of Water, Nutrients, and Tillage is a compilation of current information on the interdependence of and synergies among water, nutrients, and energy in regard to increasing crop performance. This book explains the need for intensive cropping and explores the technologies and practices necessary for proper management of water, nutrients, and energy. With Intensive Cropping you will learn how to improve the quantity of the world's most important crops using methods that will minimize harm to the environment. This essential guide is a state-of-the-art account of the concepts and practices concerning the integrated use of water, nutrients, and energy in intensive cropping. Intensive Cropping combines basic and applied aspects of soil-water, nutrients, and energy management to help you optimize your crop yields and maximize the efficiency of intensively farmed regions. In Intensive Cropping, you will explore the need for extreme farming and related concerns and concepts, including: reducing runoff, deep seepage, and evaporation losses supplementing irrigation with surface and ground water understanding the process of water uptake and its effects on root dynamics and water use reducing leaching, erosion, and gasseus losses in your fields using combinations of organic manures, crop residues, chemical fertilizers, and biofertilizers for soil maintenance implementing conventional and emerging tillage systems, such as conservation tillage for improving soil quality examining case studies of contrasting edaphic requirements of rice-wheat systems Intensive Cropping brings you up-to-date on recent advances in the field, supported by relevant experimental observations on environmentally safe and effective ways to increase crop performance. By examining this new research on increasing crop production, you will be able to successfully increase crop yields in various climates and support the growing global demand for such resources.

Book Residual Effects of Fall  and Spring applied Nitrogen Fertilizers on Crop Yields in the Southeastern United States

Download or read book Residual Effects of Fall and Spring applied Nitrogen Fertilizers on Crop Yields in the Southeastern United States written by Robert W. Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nitrogen fertilizer broadcast in November or December on widely different soils at seven locations in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi during 1955-59 was only 49 percent as effective as nitrogen fertilizer applied the following spring when measured by corn yields. In terms of nitrogen recovered, the relative effectiveness was 62 percent. There were no consistent differences among the five nitrogen sources applied in the fall as measured by corn yields, but nitrogen recovery tended to be lower from urea than from the other sources. Considerable residual effects of spring-applied nitrogen were found over a period of 16 months based on both yield and nitrogen uptake by the crops. Average uptakes of 25 and 34 pounds per acre of additional nitrogen were made by the second and third crops, respectively, from the 200-pound original application. This residual nitrogen produced average yield increases of 1,600 pounds of dry forage and 19 bushels of corn per acre. These results emphasize the economic importance of residual nitrogen and the need for soil test procedures for its estimation.

Book A Hitchhiker s Guide to Statistics in Plant Biology

Download or read book A Hitchhiker s Guide to Statistics in Plant Biology written by Stephen R. Bowley and published by Guelph, Ont. : Any Old Subject Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nitrogen in Crop Production

Download or read book Nitrogen in Crop Production written by Roland Daniel Hauck and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nitrogen use world crop production. World nitrogen situation-trends, outlook, and requirements. Function and transformation of nitrogen in higher Plants. Ammonium versus nitrate nutrition of higher plantes. Nutrient balance and nitrogen use nitrogen toxicity in plants. Dinitrogen fixation in Leguminous crop plants. Enhancing biological Dinitrogem Fixation in crop plants. Potential for nosymbiotic and assosiative dinitrogen fixation. Uptake of organic nitrogen forms by roots and leaves. Plant use of soil nitrogen. Conventional nitrogen fertilizers. Slow-Release nitrogen fertilizers. Use of nitrogen from agricultural, indistrial, and municipal wastes. Use of nitrogen from manue. Diagnosis of nitrogen deficiency in plants. Nitrogen and yield potential. Efficient use of nitrogen in croppig systems. Crop rotations for efficient nitrogen use. Nitrogen or water stress: their interrelationships. Nitrogen use and nitratite leaching in irrigated agriculture. Nitrogen Use in flooded rice soils. Plant breeding for efficient plat use of nitrogen. Legume seed inoculation. Evaluating plant-available nitrogen in soil-crop systems. Liming effects on nitrogen use and efficiency. Nitrogem use and weed control. Nitrogen nutrition of plants and insect invasion. Interaction of nitrogen use and plant disease control. Michanics of applying nitrogem fertilizer. apling nitrogen in irrigation waters. Significance of nitrogen fertilizer microsite reactions in soil. Efficiency of fertilizer nitrogen use as related to aplication methods. Nitrogen management in the no-till system. Technological approaches to improving the efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer use by crop plants. Current status of nitrification inhibitor use in U.S. agriculture. Potential for use of urease inhibitors. Foliar fertilization. Nitrogen use in organic farming. Effect of nitrogenNutrition on quality of agronomic crops. Fruit and vegetable quality as affected by nitrogen nutrition. Effect of nitrogemn on quality of three imprtant root/tuber crops. Effect of nitrogen excess on quality of food and fiber. Nitrogen management to minimize adverse effects on the environment. Management of nitrogen in new england and midle atlantic states. Management of nitrogen in the south atlantic states. Nitrogen management for the east north Central States. Management for the eat north central states. Management of nitrogen in she west north central states. Nitrogen use in south central states. Management of nitrogenin the mountain states. Management of nitrogen in the pacific States.

Book Efficient Nitrogen Fertilizer Management to Improve Crop Production

Download or read book Efficient Nitrogen Fertilizer Management to Improve Crop Production written by Li Wang and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-05-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The improvement in global crop production over the past several decades has been associated with increased use of nitrogen (N) fertilizer. However, on average, less than 50% of the nitrogen added to croplands globally is harvested as crop product. Inefficient use of N fertilizer by crops will result in substantial agricultural nitrogen losses, posing threats to human and ecosystem health. Crop production must increase dramatically to meet the growing demand for food and biofuels projected for 2050. To boost crop yield with lowered environmental cost, the use of high-potential crop cultivars and efficient nitrogen fertilizer management are required. Recent advances in N management practices, such as enhanced-efficiency fertilizer use, improved manure management and machine deep placement of fertilizer have opened up new strategies to achieve improved crop production with N use reduction. A better understanding of the key crop traits and regulatory processes in response to N fertilizer managements will facilitate the increase in crop yield, N use efficiency while minimizing impacts on the environment.

Book Fertilizers and Increased Food Production

Download or read book Fertilizers and Increased Food Production written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tillage Effects on the Fate of Nitrogen Applied to Corn as Animal Manure and Fertilizer

Download or read book Tillage Effects on the Fate of Nitrogen Applied to Corn as Animal Manure and Fertilizer written by Jaya Raj Joshi and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Improved Use of Plant Nutrients

Download or read book Improved Use of Plant Nutrients written by and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nitrogen in Agricultural Systems

Download or read book Nitrogen in Agricultural Systems written by James Stuart Schepers and published by ASA-CSSA-SSSA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of the principles and management implications related to nitrogen in the soil-plant-water system.

Book Crop Rotation on Organic Farms

Download or read book Crop Rotation on Organic Farms written by Charles L. Mohler and published by Natural Resource Agriculture and Engineering Service (Nraes). This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: