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Marketing of Crops and Crop Products

2001
Quantity, quality, availability and economics are the key factors that affect the marketing of a crop or crop product, irrespective whether it is for the domestic, national or international market. Obviously the purchaser will require the product to be available at the time required and for it to be of the desired quantity and quality.
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Climate, Cropping and Crop Disease

1981
A number of overall classifications of agro-ecosystems or farming systems have been published. We shall, in the main, follow those proposed by Duckham and Masefield (1970) and by Thorne and Thorne (1979), supplemented by more specific references to particular zones, such as those by Arnon (1972) for dry climate farming.
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Federal Crop and Crop Revenue Insurance Programs: Crop Revenue Coverage

2002
Federal crop insurance against individual farm yield losses in the form of multiple peril policies has been available for some crops since 1938. Following the 1980 Federal Crop Insurance Act, the number of crops and the geographic coverage of the federal crop yield loss insurance program was greatly expanded. Beginning in the late 1980s, in addition to
Smith, Vincent H., Smith, Vincent H.
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Maximizing crop yield in alley crops

Agroforestry Systems, 1998
A simple graphical model is presented illustrating the balance between facilitation and competition necessary for maximizing crop yield in alley cropping systems. Three functions are composed into the decision function: (1) the percent increase in crop yield from facilitation resulting from prunings, (2) the amount of prunings resulting from different ...
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Are Some Crops Synergistic to Following Crops?

Agronomy Journal, 2005
Because of improved water management, producers in the Great Plains are diversifying their crop rotations. A benefit of crop diversity is that some crop sequences can increase grain yields. Along with yield benefits, we also have noted that water use efficiency (WUE) of some crops can be improved by preceding crops.
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Crop rotation in relation to crop protection

Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology, 1992
Crop rotation as a method to control pests and diseases is treated with respect to insects, nematodes, bacteria and fungi.
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"County Crop" and "Country Crop." [PDF]

Notes and Queries, 1894
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Crops

1999
Anil Markandya, Marcella Pavan
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Crop protection in alternative crops

Outlooks on Pest Management, 2006
J. P. R. E. Dimmock, G. Edwards-Jones
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Crops and cropping

1980
C. S. Barnard, J. S. Nix
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