Residual herbicides regularly used in conjunction with conservation tillage to produce corn ( L.) and soybean [ (L.) Merr] are often detected in surface water at concentrations that exceed their U.S. maximum contaminant levels (MCL) and ecological standards. These risks might be reduced by planting glyphosate-tolerant varieties of these crops and totally or partially replacing the residual herb...

Compared with a monoculture planting mode, the practice of crop rotations improves fertilizer efficiency and increases yield. Large-scale rotation monitoring relies on results classification using remote sensing technology. However, limited accuracy cannot satisfy accurate identification patterns. In this paper, mapping scheme combining random forest (RF) algorithm new statistical features extr...

Background Maize fodder is being used as staple feed for livestock but it lacks protein and essential amino acids; lysine and tryptophan. Intercropping maize with leguminous soybean crop is promising technique under limited land resources of South Korea but it can only give considerable advantages when adequate distance is provided between corn and soybean rows. Main aim of present study was to...

ABSTRACT Eight different 3-year cropping systems, consisting of soybean-canola, soybean-barley, sweet corn-canola, sweet corn-soybean, green bean-sweet corn, canola-sweet corn, barley-clover, and continuous potato (non-rotation control) followed by potato as the third crop in all systems, were established in replicated field plots with two rotation entry points in Presque Isle, ME, in 1998. Cro...

We expanded a simulation model of the population dynamics and genetics of the western corn rootworm for a landscape of corn, soybean, and other crops to study the simultaneous development of resistance to both crop rotation and transgenic corn. Transgenic corn effective against corn rootwormwas recently approved in 2003 andmay be a very effective new technology for control ofwesterncorn rootwor...

Rotation, tillage, and variety main effects on grain yield were all significant in 2002. Rice grain yield, over all treatment combinations, averaged 159 bu/acre, which was 22 bu/acre more than in 2001. Grain yields for the two 3-phase rotations were 180 bu/acre for the rice-corn-soybeans rotation and 177 bu/acre for the rice-corn (wheat)soybean rotation. These yields were slightly better than t...

Residual herbicides used in the production of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] and corn (Zea mays L.) are often detected in surface runoff at concentrations exceeding their maximum contaminant levels (MCL) or health advisory levels (HAL). With the advent of transgenic, glyphosate-tolerant soybean and glufosinate-tolerant corn this concern might be reduced by replacing some of the residual herbic...

Measurements of the average growth rates of soil bacteria from a soil under three treatments; a conventional high input corn soybean rotation, a reversion to a native successional community (4 years) and a never ploughed grassland, were made by two methods. The specific rates of synthesis of bacterial DNA were determined from the specific activities of the DNA precursor, deoxythymidine triphosp...