A two-year trial was conducted to determine the effects of green manures and crop sequences on plant disease, streptomycete and bacterial densities, and inhibitory activity of indigenous ...

Nigeria’s farmer-herder conflict is often framed as a security crisis. It is also a feed crisis. If cattle have access to reliable, nutritious fodder, roaming would decline, farm damage would reduce, ...

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I’ve had several people ask about spreading manure this past week, mainly wondering if it is advisable to spread manure on alfalfa fields. Spreading manure on a good quality alfalfa field can be ...

‘The best time to sow green manures is late summer to early autumn – sometimes even early spring,’ says Mark. ‘This is so they can grow quickly and enrich the soil before winter arrives, helping to ...

Recent volatility in supplies and prices of natural gas and synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer suggests a need to develop and refine alternative strategies for supplying N to corn. In this study, ...

As leaves fall and autumn rains quench the thirst of a summer parched garden, it is now time to rejuvenate garden soil. With vegetable gardens soil can be easily fed and amended by planting cover ...

"Fallow ground" is the term that farmers use when a field needs a vacation. "Fallow" simply means "uncultivated for the growing season," and when ground is so deemed, the land is freed to its own ends ...

This year’s Land Application Recertification trainings, Applying Manure Management Concepts On-Farm, are scheduled to be in-person at many locations across the state over the next few weeks. These 2.5 ...

The Canada Organic Standard requires organic matter be generated on farm before off-farm nutrient sources can be used. We were curious about the impact of this standard on Canadian organic vegetable ...