Grow a healthy crop
20 important questions on Grow a healthy crop
What are the objectives of crop components?
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- Production of quality
- Farm continuity
- Clean environment
What are the farm methods for crop components?
- Crop protection
- Crop rotation, supported by crop management
- Soil cultivation
- Ecological infrastructure management
What is a cropping system?
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What is a farming system?
- Perspective in time versus perspective in space
- Field scale versus farm scale
- Role of farm management: deviations from the theory
What is chemical soil fertility?
- Reduction of mineral losses
What is physical soil fertility?
Where do crops differ strongly in?
- Nutrient utilization
Where are nutrients available from?
- Leguminous crops (nitrogen)
- Release from soil organic matter/ crop residues
- artificial fertilizer
- atmospheric deposition
How do you manage the differences in nutrient demand and supply?
- Alternate N-fixing and N-demanding crops
- Consider tranfer to next year
Which crops are high in nitrogen demand?
- Potato
- Leek
- Celery
- Leafy crops
Which crops are medium in nitrogen demand?
- Grains
- Maize
Which crops are low in nitrogen demand?
- Pea
- Chicory
- Grass-clover
- Barley
Which crops have medium ground cover?
- Pumpkin
- Maize
- Leafy crops
- Beans
Which crops have poor ground cover?
- Leek
- Red beet
- Carrot
- Celery
Which crops have good rooting?
- Grass-clover
- Leek
- Cabbage
- Maize
- Suger beet
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Field beans
Which crops have poor rooting?
- Peas and french beans
- Leafy crops
- Onion
- Potato
What is fodder beet?
- Stimulates total feed uptake
- Few crops with higher energy concent, stimulates milk fat
- Vunerable in young stage
- Needs fertile soil and lot of hand weeding
- Able to survive dry spells
What is lucerne/alfalfa?
- Nitrogen fixation
- Strong expoloitation of the soil, deep rooting
- Weed xontrol
- Sowing under open cover crop such as flax
What is faba bean?
- Good follow-up of maize or other stubble with high C/N ratio
- Leaves stubble with low C/N ratio
- No fertilizer needed
- Suscpetible to drought and leaf spot disease
- Beans have high protein levels: sold
Which crops are good for green manure?
- Vetch
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