In recent years, the use of cover crops is becoming a popular technology among growers in many regions United States, which expected to deliver various benefits such as improving soil health, increasing organic matter, controlling weeds, and helping conserve water nutrients. Although expecting these seems reasonable, it challenging know how much expect under specific situations. The potential e...

This study evaluated microbial communities of soil (0–10 cm) as affected by dryland cropping systems under different tillage practices after 5 years. The soil type was an Olton sandy loam with an average of 16.4% clay, 67.6% sand and 0.65 g kg of organic matter (OM). The cropping systems evaluated were grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)— cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) (Srg-Ct), cotton-winter rye (...

Weeds may be suppressed by winter cover crops and the use of organic herbicides such as vinegar. Black oat (Avena strigosa) and hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) winter cover crops were planted for 2 years as part of a sustainable production system for cotton in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, and were till-killed each spring prior to cotton planting. Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri), commo...

The cultivation of cover crops under no-tillage systems can promote positive improvements in soil attributes and increases grain yield successor crops, such as soybeans. aim this work was to evaluate the evolution accumulation dry shoot phytomass autumn/winter their impact on agronomic performance soybean grown succession. Black oats (Avena strigosa), rye (Secale cereale) turnip (Raphanus sativ...

This paper presents a new approach to extract urban landuse/land-cover information from high-resolution radar satellite data. Fivedate RADARSAT fine-beam SAR images over the rural-urban fringe of the Greater Toronto Area were acquired during May to August in 2002. One scene of Landsat TM imagery was acquired in 1988 for change detection. The major landuse/land-cover classes were high-density bu...

Fertilizer inputs, crop yields, the composition of technological operations and intensity treatment with different types pesticides in both basic approaches were evaluated. A comprehensive comparison impacts showed that all crops, except sugar beet, achieved better economic emission parameters production based on evaluation GHG by using reduced tillage compared to ploughing. The total reduction...

Cover crops are known to provide beneficial effects agricultural systems such as a reduction in nitrate leaching, erosion control, and an increase soil organic matter. The monitoring of cover crops’ growth (e.g., green area index (GAI), nitrogen (N) uptake, or dry matter (DM)) using remote sensing techniques allows us identify the physiological processes involved optimise management decisions. ...

Winter camelina [ Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz] and field pennycress Thlaspi arvense L.] are oilseed feedstocks that can be employed as winter-hardy cover crops in the current cropping systems U.S. upper Midwest. In addition to provide multiple ecosystem services, they a further source of income for farmer. However, using these is new agricultural practice has only been studied recently. The obj...

Abstract There have been no systematic experiments conducted in Nevada's water-limited environment that examined the simultaneous benefits of soil health and feed value derived from cool-season cover cropping systems. The objective this study was to determine influence different annual crop systems on above belowground biomass production, plant tissue carbon nitrogen, forage nutritive (crude pr...

Conservation management practices can improve soil health while minimizing deleterious effects of agriculture on the environment. However, adoption these practices, particularly cover crops, is not widespread, as they often reduce crop yields compared to traditional practices. The purpose current study was determine if a two-species treatment rye (Secale cereale L.) and crimson clover (Trifoliu...