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A glimpse of future GMES Sentinel-1 radar images
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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A newly initiated campaign marks an important step in preparing for how data from the Sentinel-1 European Radar Observatory will be used for applications such as land-cover mapping and crop management. Sentinel-1 ...
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No-tillage plus
Jul 28, 2008 |
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Tropical soils often behave differently than temperate soils when being farmed. In tropical regions, soils lose nutrients quickly when cultivated. With food shortages looming and soil quality declining rapidly, new farming ...
A model to measure soil health in the era of bioenergy
Nov 19, 2008 |
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One of the biggest threats to today's farmlands is the loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil organic matter (SOM) from poor land-management practices. The presence of these materials is essential as they do everything ...
Crop models help increase yield per unit of water used
May 04, 2009 |
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Crop water use efficiency (WUE, or yield per unit of water used), also known as crop water productivity, can be improved through irrigation management and methods, including deficit irrigation (irrigating less than is required ...
Self seeding: An innovative management system
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Apr 15, 2008 |
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Winter cover crops provide important ecological functions that include nutrient cycling and soil cover. Although cover crop benefits to agroecosystems are well documented, cover crop use in agronomic farming systems remains ...
Feed your crop, not the weeds
Jun 23, 2009 |
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If you have weed problems in your cropping system, will adding nutrients just feed the weeds?
Crop management: How small do we go?
Jul 08, 2008 |
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The use of on-the-go crop and soil sensors has greatly increased the precision with which farmers can manage their crops. Recently released research in Agronomy Journal questions whether more precise management is necess ...
Where is your soil water? Crop yield has the answer
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Crop yield is highly dependent on soil plant-available water, the portion of soil water that can be taken up by plant roots. Quantitative determination of the maximum amount of plant-available water in soil using traditional ...
Tillage, rotation impacts peanut crops
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Nov 10, 2008 |
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The increasing popularity of reduced tillage on crops has not only been an important development in combating soil erosion, but it has also been associated with increasing organic material and producing high crop yields.
Organic corn: Increasing rotation complexity increases yields
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May 28, 2008 |
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While demand for organic meat and milk is increasing by about 20% per year in the United States, almost all organic grain and forage to support these industries in the mid-Atlantic region is imported from other regions. To ...
Squeezing More Crop Out of Each Drop of Water
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies in China and Colorado by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have revealed some interesting tactics on how to irrigate with limited water, based on a crop’s ...
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