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Okra production with pine straw mulch
Agroforestry Systems, 1994Conventional planted okra in Booneville, Arkansas and Lorman, Mississippi were mulched with loblolly pine straw (Pinus taeda L.) and longleaf pine straw (P. palustris Mill.), respectively, at a rate of 11 t/ha or left bare. At Booneville, plant stand, season yields (18.6 t/ha), pod weight (16.3 g), plant dry weight (2.3 kg), or stem diameter (3.5 cm ...
D. J. Makus +4 more
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The influence of wheat straw mulching and straw length on infiltration, runoff and soil loss
Hydrological Processes, 2022AbstractStraw mulching is a typical soil and water conservation measure for slope farms, and it plays an important role in preventing soil erosion. The objective of this study was to quantify the effects of the length and coverage of wheat straw on infiltration, runoff and soil loss.
Chenguang Wang +4 more
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Recycling rice straw by composting, incorporating and mulching
Conservation & Recycling, 1984Abstract Rice straw is rich in nitrogen, potassium, carbon and silicon. It is, however, seldom put to agronomic use by farmers in Sri Lanka, mainly owing to lack of awareness of the quantity of plant nutrients present and lack of simple and inexpensive methods of recycling.
S.L. Amarasiri, K. Wickramasinghe
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Seasonal Establishment of Bermudagrass Using Plastic and Straw Mulches
Agronomy Journal, 1988AbstractBermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.] is normally established vegetatively during the early summer in the transition zone, to allow sufficient establishment time before the onset of freezing conditions in the fall. Clear polyethylene covers and straw mulches muse changes in the turfgrass microenvironment that may influence the rate of ...
R. S. Sowers, M. S. Welterlen
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Simulating the radiation distribution within a barley-straw mulch
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2000Mulching is a technique widely used to moderate soil microclimate. Modelling radiation transfer within mulches is a critical step in the development of comprehensive microclimate models of the soil‐mulch‐atmosphere system and similar hay-drying systems.
Michael D Novak +2 more
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Soil Moisture Fluctuations as Affected by Straw-mat Mulch
International Symposium on Erosion and Landscape Evolution (ISELE), 18-21 September 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, 2011The objective of this study is to assess the effect of straw-mat mulch on soil water fluctuations under field conditions. The study was conducted on a bare runoff plot with average slope gradient of 40%. Soil moisture smart sensors® were installed 200mm below the soil surface at three locations, which were 7-, 14-, and 21-m away from the top edge of ...
null Chia-Chun Wu +2 more
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Corn straw mulching affects Parthenium hysterophorus and rhizosphere organisms
Crop Protection, 2018Abstract In a previous study, straw mulching (SM) significantly affected the soil microbial environment, and weed composition and biomass. We hypothesized that corn SM may effectively control Parthenium hysterophorus. The growth traits, and the physico-chemical and microbiological properties of rhizosphere soils around P.
Jian Li +3 more
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Effects of straw mulching on initial post-fire vegetation recovery
Ecological Engineering, 2016Straw mulching is increasingly used after high severity wildfires for reducing post-fire runoff and erosion but can alter post-fire vegetation regeneration. However, information about the extent to which mulching affects the recovery of native vegetation is inconclusive.
Cristina Fernández +7 more
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Role of straw mulching in non-continuously flooded rice cultivation
Agricultural Water Management, 2006Abstract Rice ( Oryza sativa L.) cultivation under non-flooded (NF) condition is a new alternative to the conventional flooded (CF) rice cultivation system in the regions where rainfall and fresh water resources are limited. Non-flooded rice cultivation may mediate rice growth performance and mulching may be good practice to reduce ...
Jiangtao Qin +4 more
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Nonlinear Dynamic Process of Soil Tillage Under Straw Mulching Model
2016Soil tillage is the important research topic in the field of soil and agricultural engineering. By discrete element method (DEM), it simulated the resistance change of bulldozing plate under the influence of particle in the grass, and it found that the peak resistance of the weeds on bulldozing plate was 3.5 times the mean resistance.
Zhao Jikun, Xing Lei, Huang Shujun
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