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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"winter (cover) crops"”.
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Quality Soil Management in Illinois Using Winter Cover Crops
The use of winter cover crops (WCC) provides long term benefits that are generally overlooked. There is a particular lack of information regarding the effects of WCC on soil productivity. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of different crop rotations on several soil physical and …
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Nutrient release from winter cover crops exposed to freeze-thaw events
Winter cover crops are widely promoted due to their numerous soil and water quality benefits. However, recent research has highlighted some concerns about the potential leaching of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) from cover crop biomass after cycles of freezing and thawing. These freezing events …
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The effects of winter cover crops and soil compaction treatments on soil properties and soybean production in Illinois
Winter cover crops (WCC) are suggested as a tool to alleviate compaction while improving soil properties. However, WCC have also been reported to have detrimental effects on the following crop. Our goals in this study were twofold: i) to evaluate the short-term ability of radish and companion cover …
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Evaluating Agricultural Best Management Practices to Mitigate Neonicotinoid Transport in Water and Soil
… in a two-year field study testing the effects of winter cover crops and different edge-of-field buffer strip plant types on movement of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam (TMX) and its metabolite clothianidin (CLO) in treated agricultural fields. Due to dry weather and other complications, runoff and …
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Factors affecting the nutritional composition and digestibility of corn for silage: Cover crops and cell wall composition
… for silage, such as cropping system, including cover crops, and the composition of the corn plant cell wall. The objectives of the first study were to determine the nutritional quality of different winter crops for silage and to determine the impact of the various winter crops on the succeeding …
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Nematodes as indicators of sustainable soil health management practices in corn-soybean production
… The enhanced primer specificity enabled the recovery of nematode assemblages from soil DNA, and was comparable to those from nematode DNA. The direct nematode DNA extraction yielded consistent community profiles regardless of the primer used. This demonstrates that DNA source and primer choice …
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MEASURING AND MODELLING COVER CROP GROWTH AND AGRONOMIC EFFECTS
Cover crops are cultivated during the bare soil period between the harvest of a cash crop and the sowing of the next one. Their cultivation puts into effect the permanent soil organic cover principle of conservation agriculture and exerts several agro-ecological services, among which the most …
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Soil erosion and conservation potential of row crop farming in mountainous landscapes of South Korea
… erosion rates of the widely applied plastic covered ridge-furrow system (plastic mulch), and our third study investigates the impact of herbicide applications on erosion associated with conventional and organic farming. To analyze the flow processes induced by the plastic mulch cultivation, …