Plant production
14 important questions on Plant production
Why is designing crop rotations complex?
- Many different possible spatial and temperal constellations
- Farm-specific and field-specific
What are the types of crop management?
- Tactical (resource mangement= in season)
What is strategic crop management?
- Market orientation
- Infrastructure and equipment
- Crop rotation & biodiversity
- Soil fertility management
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What is tactical crop management?
- Irrigation management
- Crop nutrition
- Pest and disease management
What are soil depleting crops?
What are soil structure conserving crops?
What are soil building crops?
- Perennial legue sods: alfalfa, grass-clover
- Grass sods
What are the aims of crop rotations?
- Time management: optimisation of labour use
- Alternate crop nutrition needs, example: root crops need more K than grain crops
- Maintain soil structure and water-holding capacity, example: grain grops and grasses have fibrous roots
- Prevent soil-borne pests and diseases
- Prevent selection pressure for particular weeds
What are the aims of crop arrangement?
- Enhancing resources use (under-sowing and relay cropping)
- Complementation (pest and disease, light requirements, water and nutrient requirement, human nutrition)
- Diversification and risk management
What are examples of tropical cover crops?
- hairy indigo
- Lab lab
- Perennial peanut
- Sunn hemp
- Velvet bean
What are examples of temperate cover crops?
- Crimson clover
- Lupin
- Mustard
- Radish
- Rye
What types of weed management is there?
- In-season
What is preventive weed management?
- Mulching, understoreey crop
- Seeding density and timing
- Improve crop competitiveness
What is in-season weed management?
- False seed bed
- Transplanting
- Flame or steam weeder
- Geeze or sheep
- Hand-weeding
- Biological control (pahtogenic fungi/insects)
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