Measurement of soil bulk density is important for understanding the physical, chemical, and
biological properties of soil. Accurate and rapid soil bulk density measurement techniques …

Large‐scale bioenergy demand has triggered new approaches to straw management in
Brazilian sugarcane fields. With the progressive shift from a burned to a nonburned harvest …

Sugarcane straw represents, under Brazilian conditions, approximately one third of the total
primary energy of sugarcane in the field. Today, its use for energy is incipient and it is mostly …

Several geopolitical factors, aggravated by worries of global warming, have been fueling the
search for and production of renewable energy worldwide for the past few years. Such …

Burning sugarcane leaves and tops on standing mature crops has been practiced for
centuries in Brazil, in order to facilitate the harvest, transportation and processing of …

Although mechanized harvesting of sugarcane can benefit the soil–environment system,
successive harvests can compromise the physical soil quality. Information on the growth and …

Ethanol production in Brazil poses many challenges. This is due to the fact that there are
new players in the business, the expansion will mostly occur in less traditional areas …

Precipitation, throughfall, stemflow and soil water content were measured, and interception,
transpiration, evaporation, runoff, deep percolation and soil water recharge were estimated …

Strategies for the reduction of greenhouse gas emission in agriculture have been debated
for some time, especially in Brazil, where the agricultural sector is an important contributor to …

The present study's objectives were to quantify the fertilizer-N and residue-N balances of a
sugar cane crop under two trash management systems. The fate of nitrogen (N) derived from …