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Organic crop management
The basis of organic crop production is a healthy, biologically active soil, with good organic matter reserves, that can supply nutrients for the production of grass, crops and vegetables. This involves providing the soil with materials that can be broken down by soil microorganisms to release crop nutrients. In practice this involves developing cropping, grazing and silage rotations that do not over-exploit soil nutrient reserves, plus the managed use of manures, thus maintaining soil fertility.
A sample of Items held in the Organic crop management category
- Integrated control of slug damage - OF0158
- A laboratory-based comparison of a molluscicide and an alternative food source (red clover) as means of reducing slug damage to winter wheat
- Organically fertilized onions (Allium cepa L.): effects of the fertilizer placement method on quercetin content and soil nitrogen dynamics.
- Nutrient Management Planning: case studies (Profiting from nutrient planning)
- Using plants to control potato cyst nematode
- Disease complexes involving plant parasitic nematodes and soil borne fungi
- Brown Hares - do they prefer organic or conventionally-managed farmland?
- Video camera based precision guidance: Development and applications to field crops
- Choosing potato varieties to limit cyst nematode damage
- Conservation agriculture, tillage systems and earthworms
There are currently no subcategories in the Organic crop management section.
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