Providing the world's population with sufficient and nutritious food through sustainable food
systems is a major challenge of the twenty-first century. Fertilizer use is a major driver of crop …

Crops and weeds share the same aboveground/aerial (sunlight, space, atmospheric gases,
etc.) and underground/soil (water and nutrients) resources. Competition is a predictable …

Our objective is to provide an optimistic strategy for reversing soil degradation by increasing
public and private research efforts to understand the role of soil biology, particularly …

Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture
availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the …

The efficacy of no-till agriculture for increasing C in soils has been questioned in recent
studies. This is a serious issue after many publications and reports during the last two …

Plants obtain nutrients from two natural sources: organic matter and minerals. Organic
matter includes any plant or animal material that returns to the soil and goes through the …

No tillage (NT) is often presented as a means to grow crops with positive environmental
externalities, such as enhanced carbon sequestration, improved soil quality, reduced soil …

Soil erosion models, typically applied at basin and watershed scales, are rarely evaluated at
agricultural field scales due to the lack of spatially-distributed time series data. A novel …

A 3-year experiment was carried out in Mediterranean conditions on two maize–barley
rotations to determine the effect of different levels and sources of nitrogen (N) fertilizer on the …

An extensive literature review was conducted of corn and soybean research that compared
yields of no‐tillage to conventional fall tillage systems. The objective was to test the …