- Soils and Cropping Practices
Describes the fertilizer requirements of different soil types, with particular reference to Alberta. These two nutrients are most often responsible for limiting crop yields in Alberta. For crops grown on fallow, phosphorus may be the only nutrient li ...
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex3896
| | - Weed Management for Croplands
Article discussing several alternatives to conventional tillage systems, including allelopathy, intercropping, crop rotations and a weedfree cropping design. ...
http://ww2.attra.ncat.org/index.php/weed.html
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| | - Books On Farming
Books on Farming has a wonderful collection of old farming books from the 1850s through to the 1920s on every imaginable farm topic: cropping, sheep, cattle, poultry, horses, dogs, veterinary, blacksmithing, cooking, building things. ...
http://www.books-on-farming.com
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- Pacific Northwest Direct
Pacific Northwest Direct Seed Association was formed in 2000 to provide information exchange, advocacy on conservation policy issues and research coordination that will assure adoption of economically viable and environmentally sustainable direct see ...
http://www.directseed.org/
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- The Research on Agricultural Systems
UC Daviss Long Term Research on Agricultural Systems project has been evaluating the sustainability and environmental impact of conventional & alternative agriculture since 1993. Based at UC Davis, LTRAS is a longterm comparison of 10 conventional, o ...
http://ltras.ucdavis.edu/
| | - Steve Groff and Cedar Meadow Farm
Steve Groff and his family, farm 200 acres of vegetables and crops on hilly land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He has pioneered the Permanent Cover Cropping System, which includes notillage, cover crops, and effective crop rotations as a way to ...
http://www.cedarmeadowfarm.com/
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- The Biological Control of Locusts
Locusts and grasshoppers often cause extensive and serious damage to crops in many parts of Africa and Asia. Locusts are well known for their potential of invading cropping areas in swarms of millions of individuals leaving behind devastated fields a ...
http://www.lubilosa.org/
| | - Growing Rhubarb Fruits
Rhubarb originates from Siberia, and is a very hardy, frost resistant plant in fact it needs a period of frost in the winter to produce the best stalks. Because rhubarb is so hardy and will survive almost total neglect, it is often left to its devic ...
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/fruit_veg_mini_project_septem...
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- The Plum Tree Care
Information on the cultivation of this fruit including varieties, tree shapes, planting, pruning and cropping. Give careful consideration to what type of plum tree is best for you. Buying a plum tree which might grow to 9m 30ft tall producing masses ...
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/fruit_veg_mini_project_march_...
| | - The Steep
STEEP Solutions To Environmental and Economic Problems is an innovative interdisciplinary researcheducation program focusing on developing profitable cropping systems technologies for controlling cropland soil erosion and protecting environmental qua ...
http://pnwsteep.wsu.edu/
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