Saturday, February 16, 2008

Field Day on today

Parkes Champion Post - Parkes,New South Wales,Australia
Moisture conservation on farm is set up better than last year, grain prices are still looking good, so the field day is a strategic date for anybody. ...

Vetiver technology: rooting out soil erosion problem

Hindu - Chennai,India
Tata tea, Tata coffee and Kanna Devan hill plantation company have introduced vetiver for soil and moisture conservation in their plantations in Kerala and ...
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Thursday, February 7, 2008

Norman Borlaug, biotechnology pioneer

By Steve D.
No-till farming has increased 35% in the US since 1996, saving millions of gallons of fuel, perhaps one billion tons of soil each year from running into waterways, and significantly improving moisture conservation as well. ...
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Moisture Conservation Potential with Conservation Tillage ...

Moisture Conservation Potential with Conservation Tillage Treatments in the Thick Loess Area of Western Iowa1. E. L. Miller and W. D. Shrader2 ...

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Continuing the Green Revolution

Wall Street Journal - USA
... of gallons of fuel, perhaps one billion tons of soil each year from running into waterways, and significantly improving moisture conservation as well. ...
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WATER CONSERVATION AND EFFICIENCY: A Prairie Perspective

... uncertainty of changing weather patterns producing adequate moisture, loss of ... Other
benefits of conservation include: • Deferral and/or elimination of ...

principles and practices of crop rotation

... Moisture conservation In a moisture-limited environment such as Saskatchewan,
crops generally use all the available water in the root zone. ...

Organic Crop Production: Soil Conservation Practices - Agriculture ...

... Moisture conservation is important to soil conservation because the additional moisture
will improve crop growth, thus residue production, the following year. ...