Forage Crop
The effects of winter forage crop grazing of hillslopes on soil erosion in South Otago
... The effects of natural and anthropogenic erosion processes is already evident in the landscape, with thinning of topsoil on the slope crest (cf. 4.2.1 Soil morphology) and subsoil being visible on the shoulders of slopes ...
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Cereal forage crop rotations and irrigation treatment effect on water use efficiency and crops sustainability in Mediterranean environment
... on crop rotations favour sustainability of cultivation and produc- tivity of the ...wheat- forage crop rotations on water use efficiency and sustainability of organic ...after forage crops was ...
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The effect of perennial forage crop on grain yields in submontane regions
... perennial forage crops, the respective coefficient X for the whole area of arable land would be ...perennial forage crop percentage (X) in the range from 0 to ...
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Modelling the resilience of forage crop production to future climate change in the dairy regions of southeastern Australia using APSIM
... of forage crops under future climates used in this current study fails to take into account the increasing frequency extreme climatic events ...influence forage crop production, particularly the ...
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Energy Inputs into the Average Arable/forage crop at Sheepdrove Organic Farm 2003/4
... 5.4.2 Making the bio-diesel from an oil crop. The two possible options are oil seed rape and dwarf sunflowers. Both these crops give an oil of a suitable viscosity to produce bio-diesel. However, the next issue is ...
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Characteristics of important diploid and tetraploid subspecies of Dactylis from point of view of the forage crop production
... The subsp. galiciana has also high direct agronomic value, whereas subsp. lusitanica only limited. The poor- er winter hardness of ssp. lusitanica in one trial is in accordance with results of previous testing at Welsh ...
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A Bayesian approach to infer nitrogen loading rates from crop and land use types surrounding private wells in the Central Valley, California
... different crop types mapped by the California Department of Water Re- sources once or twice per decade in each ...these crop types are not available for historic con- ditions prior to 1990 except through ...
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Dynamic laboratory measurement with dielectric sensor for forage mass flow determination
... The forage mass flow determination by means of the newly designed parallel plate capacitance sen- sor driven at 27 MHz frequency appeared to be a promising ...wet forage crop material passing through ...
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The tactical management processes used by pastoral based dairy farmers : a multiple case study of experts : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Farm Management at Massey University
... plans that the case farmer could use should conditions deviate from normal. The predefined plan was based on previous years' experience and the case farmer's choice of the schedule of activities in the plan could be ...
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Integrating foraging and agroforestry into organic pig production Environmental and animal benefits
... Organic production systems with growing pigs in an improved forage crop system will reduce nitrate leaching at farm level compared to a system with growing pigs foraging on grass-clover [r] ...
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Effect of a catch crop to reduce nitrate leaching loss following simulated winter forage grazing
... wintering forage component of dairy systems could represent as much as 60% of the farm’s annual N leaching but from typically, less than 15% of the grazing platform (Figure ...and forage crop ...
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Modelling forage yield and water productivity of continuous crop sequences in the Argentinian Pampas
... Table 6. Statistical summary of the linear regression between the observed and modelled Water Productivity (WP) of winter crops (oats, wheat, annual ryegrass and barley) and soybean, and maize v. cumulative seasonal ...
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The Effect of Fencing the Forest Regeneration Stages upon the Level of Damage Caused by Deer in the Lowland Forests of South-Western Poland
... The studies on the food habits in Cervidae showed that the composition of their natural diet is principally formed of browse, i.e. the annual increments of shoots and twigs in trees shrubs and dwarf shrubs accessible ...
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The Effect of Organo Mineral Fertilizer Applications on the Yield of Winter Wheat, Spring Barley, Forage Maize and Grass Cut for Silage
... meet crop phosphate requirements with additional nitrogen and potassium applied to the biosolids plots as straight fertilisers to provide the crop requirement for each ...
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Assessing the effectiveness of land resource management practices on erosion and vegetative cover using GIS and remote sensing techniques in Melaka watershed, Ethiopia
... the vegetative cover in their area had declined before 2010 since all farmers had unrestricted access rights to the available vegetation resources—confirming the ear- lier findings of Mekuriaw (2006). However, over the ...
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The role and management of whole crop forage for organic ruminants
... whole crop forage is defined as the harvest and conservation of an annual crop or annual crop ...ensiled forage as opposed to an alternative use of an annual ...whole crop; and ...
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Water use in a modified summer fallow system on semiarid northern Great Plains
... It may be worthwhile to look at other rotation sequences, such as seeding winter wheat, rather than spring wheat, following forage or placing the most important crop (e.g., wheat) follow[r] ...
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Review of key causes and sources for N2O emmisions and NO3 leaching from organic arable crop rotations
... farming, both from production and environmental perspectives. Increasing yields in organic farming is an important goal to allow it to remain competitive, and this requires more efficient conversion of reactive N into ...
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PERFORMANCE OF SUMMER FORAGE LEGUMES AND THEIR RESIDUAL EFFECT ON SUBSEQUENT OAT CROP IN SUBTROPICAL SUBHUMID POTHWAR, PAKISTAN
... tropical forage legumes namely sesbania (Sesbania aculeata), cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata), rice beans (Vigna umbellata), lablab bean (Lablab purpureus) and cluster bean (Cymopsis tetragonoloba) with reference to a ...
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Economic Impact of the Mid Term Review on Agricultural Production, Farm Income and Farm Survival: A Quantitative Analysis for Local Sub Regions of Schleswig Holstein in Germany
... The farms can choose from all land cultivation activities that are relevant in Schleswig-Holstein. There are three main groups: cash crops, set-aside and forage production. The cash crops consist of several types ...
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