While the importance of considering soil aggregate stability, soil texture, and management history when assessing soil indicators is well-documented in the soil health literature , in practice there continues to be a gap in soil health indicators that are tailored to be site-specific and/or farming system relevant . Given that soil indicators can vary by…
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All 13 farms selected for this soil health study were located in Yolo County
As shown in Figure 1 , if the range of ecosystem type is constrained to include only agricultural systems, the relationship between indicators for SOM and gross N mineralization is less evident. In summary, our results suggest that SOM indicators, while not significant, do play a role in influencing N cycling across the farm systems…
Air dried samples were measured for gravimetric water content and BD
Destroying soil structure was relatively easy but had irreversible, long-term consequences and often took years, in some cases even a decade, to rebuild. This key soil health practice voiced by a majority of farmers interviewed represented a different framing compared to messaging about soil health vis-a-vis extension institutions , where soil health principles focus on keeping…
Squash residues incorporated into soil also aids in the prevention of seed germination for many weed species
Clear boundaries between households were not necessarily marked with physical materials or through strategic placement of cultivated flora. The closest evidence for any physical boundaries are the rows of agave outside Household 4, but the spatial location of these suggest more of a garden patch, which provided a source of fiber rather than a natural…
Those responsible for kidnapping the kind old woman are agents of a foreign enemy
Anne in the drawing represent a collection of Leonardo’s maternal figures . In the cartoon, Saint Anne and Mary both caress the Christ child, who is playing with Saint John the Baptist. For Freud, these two figures have a double significance. First, they represent Leonardo’s father’s second wife, Donna Albicia, and his paternal grandmother, Mona…
Recognition of the specificity of the genocide and the complicity of the French state came gradually
Earlier in this introduction, I mentioned that it was my texts’ emphasis on space, both narrative and physical, that combined with their focus on memory to create a monument. In his book Spatiality and the Novel, Joseph Kestner calls space in text a “secondary illusion” . In the otherwise timebound narrative, in which events happen…
Ten plots were established at each field site within three days of tomato transplant
Bio-fuel mandates are one of several policies, including crop insurance and research funding priorities, that currently maintain the profitability of corn production; however, these policies need not be the ones that define rotational landscapes, and increased funding for policies such as the Conservation Stewardship Program could better align farmers’ economic incentives with improved environmental health.…
Racial and economic inequity is a central feature of the industrial and corporate-controlled food system
Thus, as with the 1956 Soil Bank Program from which the CRP grew, it is the least productive land and lowest income households that are often enrolled and kept profitable. Second, studies have shown that conservation compliance does not present a strong economic deterrent for landowners who want to crop former CRP acreage after the CRP…
This bill drastically reduced and reshaped federal food and agricultural support
During the 1990s there were numerous mergers between agricultural, pharmaceutical, and chemical firms tied to the global seed industry that aimed to take advantage of potential synergies and secure even greater corporate profit and strength. Because the mergers took place within the globalized market where most seed industry markets exist beyond one nation-state, however, these expected…
Congressional negotiations on the composition of the bill typically take between two to three years
Such changes have been facilitated by a mix of high-tech globalized financial systems and labor markets, speculative financial markets, corporate control over the public sphere, increased commodification of human heritages , and increased consumerism. inequality, are also antithetical to one another, despite recent gains in terms of USDA Civil Rights settlements and slowly increasing participation…