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  1. Crops are grown on the farm to feed the animals.
  2. Crops are planted in succession in order to provide a continuous weekly supply of mixed vegetables.
  3. Crops are grown in the ground, usually with drip irrigation.
  4. The crops are planted in a wheat–corn–soybean pattern, with soybeans on the north side of the corn ( Figure 2).
  5. Crops are grown without artificial fertilizers and pesticides, and livestock is reared free of drugs and hormones.

Green Manure

  1. Cover crop strategies include undersowing and catch cropping as well as winter cover crops and summer green manures.
  2. Many more winter cover crops are adapted to the southern U.S. These cool-season legumes include clovers, vetches, medics, and field peas.
  3. Turning green manures under or suppressing cover crops requires additional time and expense, compared to having no cover crop at all.
  4. Brief descriptions and examples are provided for winter cover crops, summer green manures, living mulches, catch crops, and some forage crops. (Web site)


  1. The mulch that results from mowing or chemically killing allelopathic cover crops can provide significant weed control in no-till cropping systems.
  2. Row covers placed over crops growing on bare soil create a favorable environment for weed germination and growth.
  3. Crop Rotation and Intercropping Strategies for Weed Management Research showing that cover crops have a big impat on weed suppression. (Web site)
  4. Non-chemical weed control is further enhanced through the use of crop rotation, especially when competitive cover crops (smother crops) are included.


  1. It also contains seed sources, general information, Steve Groff's No-till Vegetables video listing, and the first edition of Managing Cover Crops Profitably.
  2. By reducing the seeding rates of each, the crops have a chance to yield well within the mixture.
  3. Another dimension of strip cropping is the use of annual small grains or perennial hay crops in alternating strips with corn or soybeans.
  4. Cereal rye, wheat, and oats are also commonly used as small grain cover crops and in mixtures with the legumes mentioned above.


  2. Leguminous green-manure crops add nitrogen to the soil. (Web site)
  3. Since these two cover crops are legumes, they form a symbiosis with specialized soil bacteria called rhizobia. (Web site)
  4. Leguminous crops, such as clover, also "fix" nitrogen through rhizobia bacteria in specialized nodes in the root structure. (Web site)
  5. A green manure crop of soybeans and sorghum are planted the next year, and are cultivated and treated like row crops.

Cover Crops

  1. Green Manures or Nitrogen-fixing crops - 'Green Manure' is a cover crop of plants tilled into the soil. (Web site)
  2. Examples of cover crops used for green manure include soybeans, clover, rye, and others.
  3. Further information on this topic can be found in the ATTRA publication Overview of Cover Crops and Green Manures.


  1. Strip intercropping involves multiple crops growing in side-by-side, narrow strips. (Web site)
  3. Field crops damaged include alfalfa, corn, cotton, peanut, safflower, sorghum, soybean, sugarbeet, and tobacco.
  4. Cropping pattern The yearly sequence and spatial arrangement of crops, or of crops and fallow, on a given area.
  5. In many intercropping practices, legumes are planted with crops.


  1. In non-developed nations, cash crops are usually crops which attract demand in more developed nations, and hence have some export value.
  2. At the Web site you can see photos of these machines in action, and test-plot results comparing flail mowing, rolling, and herbicide-killed cover crops.
  3. As in their other studies, Abdul-Baki and Teasdale used flail mowing to kill the cover crops.
  4. Of the three methods for mechanically killing cover crops, undercutting, mowing, and rolling, the first is the most effective.

Cropping Systems

  1. Due to the inherent sustainability of perennial cropping systems, permaculture places a heavy emphasis on tree crops.
  2. Cover crops can fit well into many different cropping systems during periods of the year when no cash crop is being grown.

Legume Cover

  1. Table 7. Nitrogen fertilizer replacement value of legume cover crops.
  2. Winter-killed cover crops provide a dead mulch through the winter months instead of green cover.
  3. Allison and Ott (1987) reviewed studies investigating the economics of using legume cover crops in conservation tillage systems.

Crop Residues

  1. Electricity can be generated from methane gas of animal waste or from burning field waste and specially grown crops ( biomass).
  2. Clear plastic mulch can be particularly beneficial in giving warm season crops a head start. (Web site)
  3. Derpsch, R., 1998: Historical review of no-tillage cultivation of crops. (Web site)
  4. By limiting the number or intensity of tillage operations, crop residue from previous crops remains on the soil surface.
  5. Different kinds of insect pollinators such as bees, flies, beetles, butterflies, moths and wasps are important pollinators of many crops. (Web site)

Crops Like

  1. Biodynamic farmers also make special use of plants like phacelia, rapeseed, mustard, and oilseed radish in addition to common cover crops like rye and vetch.
  2. Assuming weeds can be controlled and appropriate planters found, most vegetable crops could probably be grown with reduced tillage. (Web site)
  3. Sugarcane farmers have started intercropping with crops like sesbania, soyabean, stylo etc. (Web site)
  4. Crops of longer duration like beans, ridgegourd okra, papaya, tomato, brinjal, mustard and chilli are suitable for such dykes.


  1. The undercutter was tried on several cover crops and effectively killed crimson clover, hairy vetch, rye, and barley.
  2. Favored cover crops are sweet clover, vetch, rye, oats, and peas.
  3. These green manure crops may be legumes such as alfalfa, cowpeas, soybeans, clover, or sweet clover. (Web site)

Grass Cover

  1. Figure 2. A homemade roller to kill cover crops.
  2. Most grassy and non-legume cover crops, like buckwheat and rye, fulfill this need well.
  3. UC SAREP Cover Crop Resource Page This is the database of all databases when it comes to cover crops.
  4. This video leads you through selection of the proper cover crop mix to plant into and how to control cover crops with little or no herbicide.
  5. Innovative farmers are paving the way by interplanting cover crops with the main crop and realizing pest management benefits as a result.


  1. Those who are successful in sourcing non-GM seeds risk having their crops contaminated by neighbouring GM fields. (Web site)
  2. The court has directed geac to form an independent experts committee to look into the regulatory aspects for release of gm crops. (Web site)

Fruit Crops

  1. Pollination using honeybees is the most cost-effective method for pollinating apple and other fruit crops. (Web site)
  2. The wild gene pools of many fruit crops have been drastically reduced by habitat destruction already (Partap 1993).
  3. Investigation of such diseases in the region shows that they came with crops into which large-scale genetic material introductions were made (Partap 1993).

Crops Grown

  1. Green manures are crops grown for the express purpose of plowing them under. (Web site)
  2. In conservation tillage, crops are grown with minimal cultivation of the soil. (Web site)
  3. Typically, if rye is mowed at the pollination stage, regrowth is minimal and not a problem to crops grown in the mowed mulch.

Different Crops

  1. A fundamental concept of crop rotation is the effect of different crops on the land.
  2. Different crops will have different residue geometry and structure. (Web site)


  1. In many tropical and subtropical areas, jute, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, bananas, oranges and cotton are common cash crops.
  2. The major crops raised in the Garo hills are paddy, maize, jute, mesta, cotton, ginger and mustard. (Web site)

Certain Crops

  1. This allows early seeding and transplanting of certain crops, and encourages faster growth. (Web site)
  2. It has been observed that allelopathy may not only suppress weeds, but also damage certain crops, especially small-seeded vegetable crops.


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