Systematic Crop Rotation Transforms Agriculture
Overview
The French landowner and lawyer Olivier de Serres (1539-1619) published in 1600 his book Théatre d'agriculture, which described sys...
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Crop Rotation
As crops grow, they remove nutrients from the soil; however, some crops return certain nutrients over the seasons and between species. Unlike a natural ecosystem, in which there is a bal...
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Water shortages in the Mediterranean, flash floods along the Rhine and summers so hot that nuclear power stations can't cool down. This is what Europe can expect as its climate warms over the next ...
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Most wheat and barley producing states have dodged a grain-withering fungus this year, plant pathologists and producers say.Fusarium head blight _ commonly known as scab _ was nearly nonexistent th...
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Most wheat and barley producing states have dodged a grain-withering fungus this year, plant pathologists and producers say.Fusarium head blight _ commonly known as scab _ was nearly nonexistent th...
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Cloning and Biotech Progress
The recent FDA decision that meat from cloned animals is safe for human consumption seems logical enough. A protein is a protein. But even if we can eat such me...
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Goat chops, goat sausage and goat loins aren't appearing on most American menus today, but Jim Lechner is working to change that.The New Jersey goat farmer knows there's a demand for his meats in t...
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High fashion is going granola. But not the grunge of hippie yoga wear and grainy hemp T-shirts typically associated with organic clothes.Think soft soy dresses, cropped organic terry jackets and sl...
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A pop quiz: What is fertilizer? Where does it come from? If both your answers involve a cow, count yourself about 70 years behind the times. The cattle and horse manure of old gave way long ago to ...
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Systematic Crop Rotation Transforms Agriculture
Crop Rotation
EU paper shows options on warming Europe
