Ploughing Articles & Analysis: Older
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Therefore, if it’s possible, growers should reduce cultivations or work at a shallower depth through min-till practices to avoid overworking the soil and creating plough pans.Being patient and checking soil moisture throughout the soil profile is recommended to avoid cultivating or planting when it’s too wet and causing soil smearing. ...
Soil compaction is becoming a major issue worldwide. Not only in the Netherlands but globally the soil is deteriorating very badly. Soil compaction is a form of soil degradation, in which the soil structure is lost because the soil is compressed. This global problem is still underestimated and causes problems for agriculture, nature, and climate. Furthermore, soil compaction leads to loss of ...
Understanding the layers of inequality in agriculture Officially, Kavita Devi would not count as landless. Even though she belongs to a land-owning family, in practice, she is landless. These intra-household gender-generational granularities are not accounted for in official statistics of landless rural families in Bihar who make for over 60% of the state’s population, of which, over 92% ...
Sumo and conservation agriculture To support British farmers through conservation agriculture and the move from plough to minimum tillage, Sumo has developed a range of mounted tillage cultivators and drills that are ideal for small to medium sized farms. ...
The bill is aimed at six main areas (Productivity, Efficiency, Sustainability, Diversification, Added Value, Environment/Biodiversity), all of which Sumo could place a machine with the end user who has to embrace a change from a plough to min/zero-till farming practices. DTS strip-till seeding is a conservation agriculture system that uses a minimum tillage approach that ...
After the crop is harvested, the straw is chopped and scattered on the surface, and then ploughed to return to the field directly, which can improve the physical properties of the soil, promote the formation of soil aggregate structure, increase the ability of air permeability, water permeability and fertilizer conservation, and thus improve the soil fertility. ...
Regional B2B is based on local, deep-ploughed areas. The advantage of regional B2B is that take away products have strong regional consumption preference and cultural environment preference. ...
Our team are just beginning to plough through the enquiries we received during the two days and are starting to book in visits to the factory to showcase how our machines are simply built better than any other incineration machine on the market. ...
This, combined with other control options such as ploughing, spring cropping and higher seed rates can all help control this weed. ...
This philosophy has been extended to the fieldwork in springtime. The light and soft soil is ploughed in spring. By using tires all across the full width of the tractor or implement, the soil is evenly compressed. ...
The search for lower establishment costs has led one Warwickshire grower to ditch the plough and opt for a min-till approach that offers the capability to direct drill too. ...
” “We intended to carry out more minimal cultivations with the Flat Lift and type 28 for wheat this year, but due to the harvest damage, ended up ploughing followed by the type 28 on the majority of the 350 acres, and resorting to plough and power harrow on the worst of it, but it was all drilled with the Moore in some pretty appalling ...
The money in the Agricultural Sector Productivity Enhancement Fund, ASPEF, was designated for the purchase of fuel, seed, fertilizer, ploughs and tractors and to rehabilitate irrigation equipment vandalized and stolen during the farm seizures. ...
Soil and nutrient losses were substantial for crops such as cabbage that required land shaping activities and frequent ploughing of the soil. Predicted data on enrichment ratio of specific surface (ERSS) are consistent with nutrient enrichment processes in the field and could prove to be useful in studies on chemical transport in highland ...
Soil and nutrient losses were substantial for crops such as cabbage that required land shaping activities and frequent ploughing of the soil. Predicted data on enrichment ratio of specific surface (ERSS) are consistent with nutrient enrichment processes in the field and could prove to be useful in studies on chemical transport in highland ...