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Kaiqi Yang, Jian Hu, Yunzhuo Ren, Zhiao Zhang, Mei Tang, Zhenkun Shang, Qing Zhen and Jiyong Zheng
The efficient use of organic amendment (OM) is considered an economic, environmental and sustainable practice to improve soil quality, especially the accumulation of organic carbon (C) and water use efficiency (WUE) in dryland agriculture. However, the e...
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Nariane Q. Vilhena, Alejandra Salvador, Julia Morales, Almudena Bermejo and Ana Quiñones
This study evaluates mineral concentrations, biocomponents contents and fruit quality attributes in ?Rojo Brillante? persimmon grown under organic and conventional managements. During two seasons, the concentrations of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potas...
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Zeqiang Shao, Emmanuel R. Mwakidoshi, Esther M. Muindi, Rogério P. Soratto, Shivani Ranjan, Smruti Ranjan Padhan, Andrew W. Wamukota, Sumit Sow, Daniel O. Wasonga, Jamal Nasar, Mahmoud F. Seleiman and Harun I. Gitari
Biogas bioslurry, which is normally a bio-digestion product from livestock refuse, can be utilized as an inorganic fertilizer, thus boosting not only soil fertility but also crop growth and yield. Its use can mitigate climate change by reducing methane g...
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Travis Parker, Kristyn Leach, C. Scott Stoddard, Laura Roser, Antonia Palkovic, Troy Williams, Sassoum Lo, Paul Gepts, Don La Bonte, Ga Young Chung and E. Charles Brummer
Sweetpotatoes are a major crop in California, ranking sixth in value among organic commodities in the state. In recent years, there has been growing consumer interest in diverse specialty varieties, particularly purple types and those associated with Asi...
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Chuang Liu, Huiyi Yang, Kate Gongadze, Paul Harris, Mingbin Huang and Lianhai Wu
Agricultural system models provide an effective tool for forecasting crop productivity and nutrient budgets under future climate change. This study investigates the potential impacts of climate change on crop failure, grain yield and soil organic carbon ...
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Fumiaki Takakai, Masahiro Kobayashi, Takashi Sato, Kentaro Yasuda and Yoshihiro Kaneta
The effects of conversion from staple rice to forage rice on carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) balances in a paddy field were evaluated. A staple rice plot without the application of livestock manure compost (LMC, S − M plot) and forage rice plots wi...
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Him L. Shrestha, Trishna S. Bhandari, Bhaskar S. Karky and Rajan Kotru
Crop productivity is directly dependent on soil fertility. High organic carbon content in soil is vital as it leads to improved soil quality, increased productivity, and stable soil aggregates. In addition, with the signing of the climate agreement, ther...
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P. Stephen Baenziger, Ibrahim Salah, Richard S. Little, Dipak K. Santra, Teshome Regassa and Meng Yuan Wang
Our long-term goal is to develop wheat cultivars that will improve the profitability and competitiveness of organic producers in Nebraska and the Northern Great Plains. Our approach is to select in early generations for highly heritable traits that are n...
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Neil O. Anderson, Joey Annis, Mark Buchholz, Jared Cutting, Eric Heuring, Emily Jankila, Megan McCrumb, Nicole Nelson, Myra Pehoski, Karl Piepho, Valerie Price and Victoria Russell
Modern greenhouse production has been ~100% reliant on fossil fuels for all inputs (glazing, heating, fertilization, lighting, post-harvest). Recent innovations may reduce fossil fuel dependence but their effectiveness may not be thoroughly tested. To pr...
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Dionisios Yfantopoulos, Georgia Ntatsi, Anestis Karkanis and Dimitrios Savvas
Cabbage is an annual vegetable crop species cultivated throughout the year. The development of high-yielding cabbage hybrids and the optimization of several agronomic management practices such as fertilization and crop rotation have resulted in increased...
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Robert P. Larkin
The impacts of two different cover crop (CC) strategies, as well as compost, silicon (Si), and biocontrol (BC) soil amendments were evaluated on soil chemical and biological properties, crop development and yield, and disease and pest issues in organic v...
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Jolanta Kowalska and Kinga Matysiak
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Hu Xu, Andong Cai, Xueyun Yang, Shulan Zhang, Shaomin Huang, Boren Wang, Ping Zhu, Gilles Colinet, Nan Sun, Minggang Xu and Wenju Zhang
Partial substitution of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer with manure (organic substitution) is highly recommended to minimize environmental risks without compromising crop productivity in intensive agricultural systems. However, our understanding of the eff...
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Jagadish Timsina
Meeting global demand of safe and healthy food for the ever-increasing population now and into the future is currently a crucial challenge. Increasing crop production by preserving environment and mitigating climate change should thus be the main goal of...
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Aritz Royo-Esnal and Francisco Valencia-Gredilla
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Laura Vincent-Caboud, Joséphine Peigné, Marion Casagrande and Erin M. Silva
Cover crop mulch?based no-tillage (MBNT) production is emerging as an innovative alternative production practice in organic farming (OF) to reduce intensive soil tillage. Although European organic farmers are motivated to implement MBNT to improve soil f...
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Lina Skinuliene, Au?ra Marcinkeviciene, Mindaugas Dorelis and Vaclovas Bogu?as
Depending on the type of agricultural use and applied crop rotation, soil organic carbon accumulation may depend, which can lead to less CO2 fixation in the global carbon cycle. Less is known about organic carbon emissions in different crop production sy...
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Sara Martinez, José Luis Gabriel, Raúl Allende-Montalbán, Raúl San-Juan-Heras and María del Mar Delgado
In a circular economy framework, waste valorization in crop production promotes sustainability in the agricultural sector. Buckwheat (BW; Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) has promising nutritional and economic value. Its sustainable production can be promote...
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Erin M. Silva and Kathleen Delate
The organic industry continues to expand in the United States (U.S.), with 14,093 organic farms in 2014. The upper Midwestern U.S. has emerged as a hub for organic row crop production; however, the management of these organic row crop hectares heavily re...
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Erik Lehnhoff, Zachariah Miller, Perry Miller, Stephen Johnson, Tessa Scott, Patrick Hatfield and Fabian D. Menalled
Organic agricultural production has become a major economic and cultural force. However, in water-limited environments the tools used for weed control and nutrient supply, namely tillage and cover crops, may not be environmentally or economically sustain...
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