Tillage

Over the past 3 decades or so there has been a progressively growing interest in the diversity of different types of land use systems and the roles they play in stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations as well as mitigating CO2 emissions. Specific interest has been shown towards agroforestry systems and their ability to sequester carbons in above and below ground biomass while simultaneously enhancing global carbon sinks (Dixon et al. 1994). Agroforestry offers the…

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Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, Nitrous oxide, and Ammonia. First, 9 percent of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide are released from livestock production. When cultivating livestock, a large amount of crop is consumed, and the conventional tillage of land for such a great amount of crop lead to the emissions of…

Powdery mildew in soybeans, caused by the fungus Microsphaera diffusa, is a leaf disease in soybeans, and it also affects other legumes. The disease requires cool air temperatures and low relative humidity, making it uncommon during Midwest summers. Powdery mildew occurs only occasionally in soybeans in the Midwest and Upper Midwest. Epidemics have been reported about every 10 to 15 years. Nonetheless, powdery mildew can cause significant yield loss when it occurs, so it’s important for farmers…

Eight-hundred and seventy million humans in the world are starving and considered malnourished as reported by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. GMOs, that is, genetically modified organisms, can create many positive outcomes, such as, helping lessen the world’s starvation problem by the increase of food production due to the ability of genetic modifications. Further research and implementation of GMOs could improve everyday life for people of all social statuses from needy to…

In any plant or crop you are going to have to deal with the common diseases and insects that go along with it. A few common diseases of corn are: Stewart’s Bacterial Wilt, Root Rot, Corn Smut, and Southern Corn Leaf Blight. Stewart's Bacterial Wilt is a disease that affects corn at any stage of the growing period. Although, this particular wilt is most harmful when sweet corn is at a very young stage. This disease causes wilting and dwarfing of the plants and the plant will most likely never…

small channels on a slope carved by running water” (Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary). Gully erosion is a “large, wide channels carved by running water. As a rule of thumb, a gully is large enough that it cannot be smoothed out with conventional tillage equipment”(Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary). Splash erosion is the direct movement of soil from splashing. Soil particles can be thrown as far as 3 feet by raindrop splash. The impact of a water droplet can dislodge soil particles making them…

as there are no run offs of chemicals into local waterways, decreasing aquatic ecosystem damage and possibly increasing the safety of drinking water into countries, where safe drinking water is hard to find - Studies have shown that conservative tillage has environmental benefits; as limiting tilling, reduces erosion of soil and runoff, fuel use from machinery, and the carbon footprint of agriculture, as well as manual…

The applications of Bt corn are to produce a better quality corn that resists pests and parasites and will yield larger crops even in poor environmental conditions. The Cry1AB protein or Bt delta endotoxin located inside the Bt corn, is what is used to kill off Lepidoptera larvae, specifically the European corn borer, as they hatch and begin to feed on the plant as the protein is made by the plant in the tissue where these feed at. The Cry protein acts as a synthetic insecticide and is not…

Apparently, conservation agriculture is able to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases as well as global food security. First of all, according to the definition of greenhouse gases (GHG) “The atmospheric concentrations of some greenhouse gases are being affected directly by human activities namely carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, chlorofluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons. Water vapour is also a major greenhouse gas, but its concentration in the atmosphere is not influenced…