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Cover Crop Mixes Dry And Wet Soils

December 30, 2011 | Posted in Cover Crops
Source: Manitoba Cooperator
With both extremely wet and dry conditions happening in the same growing season, it is not a stretch to call 2011 a strange year in Manitoba, but it has helped prove the effectiveness of perennial and annual forage seed blends known as "polycrops", or cover crops, in dealing with extremes of weather.
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New Tool Offers Advanced Root Studies

December 28, 2011 | Posted in Nutrient Management
Source: Carnegie, Standford Universities
A new technology, called the RootChip, has allowed a research team to study roots of eight individual seedlings at the same time, and to alter their growth environment simultaneously or independently with precision.
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California Researchers Hit Record No-Till Yields

December 26, 2011 | Posted in Seeding & Planting
Source: University of California
University of California scientists have for the first time achieved the same yields in cotton and tomato research plots managed under conservation tillage strategies as they did on adjacent plots using conventional tillage practices.
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