NALT Keyword: soil management
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Minimum Tillage Vegetable Crop Production in California
Tillage operations in vegetable production represent time, energy, equipment, and labor that can make up more than 25% of preharvest production costs. Reduced-tillage systems have been developed to control costs and optimize soil management.
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Conservation Tillage and Weed Management
"Conservation tillage" is an approach to soil management that balances the short-term need for a profitable crop with the long-term need for sustainably healthy ground. This publication looks at ways to control weeds while practicing conservation tillage.
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UC COOPERATIVE EXTENSION CENTENNIAL: Irrigation of deciduous orchards ...
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Forest nurseries face critical choices with the loss of methyl bromide...
Integrated pest management approaches can help compensate for the loss of methyl bromide, but converting to container production may be the best option. |
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Monitoring soil carbon will prepare growers for a carbon trading syste...
Baseline estimates are the first step in establishing a long-term soil carbon monitoring network for Northern California perennial croplands. |
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Soil suitability index identifies potential areas for groundwater bank...
In wet years, farm plots could serve as percolation basins for aquifer recharge; an analysis of data on soil, crops and topography highlights promising sites. |
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Recycled water causes no salinity or toxicity issues in Napa vineyards
Treated wastewater proves suitable for irrigation in the Carneros and MST regions, although its nitrogen content may concern some growers. |
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Thinning treatments had minimal effect on soil compaction in mixed-con...
In mixed-conifer plantations in the Sierra Nevada, no large impacts were seen from commercial thinning or mastication treatments. |
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Specialty crops and methyl bromide alternatives: Taking stock after 7 ...
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Researchers develop alternatives to methyl bromide fumigation
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Fumigant emission reductions with TIF warrant regulatory changes
Increasing the standard tarping period from 5 days to 10 days reduced peak and total emissions significantly in a 2011 trial. |
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Methyl bromide primer and timeline
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Rainfall leaching is critical for long-term use of recycled water in t...
Leaching with recycled water correlated with increasing soil salinity in this study, whereas rainfall leaching decreased soil salinity. |
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UC COOPERATIVE EXTENSION CENTENNIAL: Improved leaching practices save ...
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Soil sampling protocol reliably estimates preplant NO3...
Taking two or three cores in a few beds produces a reliable nutrient assessment that could avoid nitrogen surpluses and groundwater pollution. |
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Methyl bromide terminology
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