Grow a healthy crop

20 important questions on Grow a healthy crop

What are the objectives of crop components?

- Fertile soil
- Varied lanscape
- Production of quality
- Farm continuity
- Clean environment

What are the farm methods for crop components?

- Nutrient management
- Crop protection
- Crop rotation, supported by crop management
- Soil cultivation
- Ecological infrastructure management

What is a cropping system?

Crop succession + production techniques
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What is a farming system?

Cropping systems + interrelations through management
- 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?

- Optimal use of nutrient resources
- Reduction of mineral losses

What is physical soil fertility?

- Maintance of soil structure (cover and rooting)

Where do crops differ strongly in?

- Nutrient demand
- Nutrient utilization

Where are nutrients available from?

- Manure
- 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 high and low demanding crops
- Alternate N-fixing and N-demanding crops
- Consider tranfer to next year

Which crops are high in nitrogen demand?

- Cabbage
- Potato
- Leek
- Celery
- Leafy crops

Which crops are medium in nitrogen demand?

- Onion
- Grains
- Maize

Which crops are low in nitrogen demand?

- Carrot
- Pea
- Chicory
- Grass-clover
- Barley

Which crops have medium ground cover?

-Potato
- Pumpkin
- Maize
- Leafy crops
- Beans

Which crops have poor ground cover?

- Onion
- Leek
- Red beet
- Carrot
- Celery

Which crops have good rooting?

- Grains
- Grass-clover
- Leek
- Cabbage
- Maize
- Suger beet
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Field beans

Which crops have poor rooting?

- Pumpkin
- Peas and french beans
- Leafy crops
- Onion
- Potato

What is fodder beet?

- Tradiotion fodder crop from the times before maize
- 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?

- Multy-year crop; mowing 3-4 times a year
- Nitrogen fixation
- Strong expoloitation of the soil, deep rooting
- Weed xontrol
- Sowing under open cover crop such as flax

What is faba bean?

- Nitrogen fixation, need good soil structure
- 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?

- Yellow mustard
- Vetch

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