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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"summer cover crops"”.
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Agroecological approaches to warm-season cover cropping in northern climate vegetable systems and building collaborations with farmers
Summer cover crops are a management tool that vegetable farmers can use to counteract the negative effects of soil degradation by physically protecting soil, contributing biomass to soil organic matter (SOM), suppressing weed growth, and enhancing nutrient cycling, but their use may be limited in …
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Utilization of common buckwheat as a short-cycle cover crop before direct-seeded processing cucumber production
… One alternative method is utilizing short-cycle summer cover crops, such as common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) prior to planting cucumber. However, this needs to be tested to assess any potentially negative influences of buckwheat on cucumber yields. To examine the effects of buckwheat on …
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Evaluation of Drought Tolerance and Forage Characteristics of Millet Cultivars
… italica [L] Beauv) and pearl millet grown as cover crops and forage during a pasture renovation. The main focus of the thesis involved evaluation of Senegalese pearl millet cultivars for drought tolerance. Drought is one of the most important threats to pearl millet production in Senegal as it …