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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Fallowing"”.
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Investigating best management practices to reduce selenium and nitrate contamination in a regional scale irrigated agricultural groundwater system: Lower Arkansas River Valley, southeastern Colorado
… and combinations of these practices, along with fallowing of irrigated land. These practices are applied for a long term period (40 years) to observe the effects of each BMP on groundwater CSeO4 and CNO3 and on mass loadings from the aquifer to the Arkansas River. The BMPs are applied at varying …
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"The chiefest wealth of our country" : the foldcourse in East Anglia
… involved significant periods of extended fallowing of both infield and outfield arable; the purpose of which was to improve the soil structure and thereby the retention of nutrients and moisture, and for the development of better plant cover and improved grazing for the flocks. On some …
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Quality Soil Management in Illinois Using Winter Cover Crops
… including WCC were compared with winter fallowing (control) in a corn (Zea mays L.)-soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] rotation under no-tillage. The experimental design was a split split-plot where whole-plot treatments (sampling period and year) had a latin square design and sub-plot …
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When the Soil Was Everything: Unearthing the Roots of American Environmental Writing
… planting in monocultures of tobacco and cotton, fallowing instead of manuring and rotating crops, plowing vertically on hillsides, and planting the same crop on the same land year after year left much of the nation's farmland eroded or exhausted. Agricultural writers enjoined farmers to improve …
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Remotely Sensed Estimates of Evapotranspiration in Agricultural Areas of Northwestern Nevada: Drought, Reliance, and Water Transfers
… land is influenced by land use changes, such as fallowing, and water right transfers from irrigation to municipal use. To evaluate agricultural water consumption with respect to variations in weather, water supply, and land use changes, monthly estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) were derived …
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An investigation into the administrative procedures of teacher education in colleges of education in KwaZulu
… weight. These enabled the researcher to make the fallowing recommendations : — emphasis should be put on both theory and practice . — teacher—trainees should be equipped with administrative procedures . — course content should be restructured to produce teachers and managers . the programme should …
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Evaluation of rotation varieties strategies to control reniform nematode in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
… alternative for producers to crop rotation or fallowing the land. Other treatments such as RSR could represent an opportunity to obtain appropriate yields, compared to SSS, and avoid the development of resistance of this pathogen to cotton. Future studies are important to evaluate the …
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Strategies for limited and deficit irrigation to maximize on-farm profit potential in Colorado's South Platte Basin
… crops, dryland crops, permanent or rotational fallowing of fields, and crop rotations. Some farmers will also consider upgraded irrigation systems as an aspect of implementing these practices. The farmer-driven optimization may include any or all of these changed practices as well as continued …
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Groundwater Banking in Imperial Irrigation District: Planning for Future Water Scarcity on the Colorado River
… that pay farmers to not use water through field fallowing, or by improving efficient irrigation practices. There are economic and environmental sustainability issues associated with these programs, too. For instance, the Salton Sea relies almost entirely on agricultural runoff to sustain its …