Agricultural scientists are sowing winter grain crops such as wheat into established summer-growing perennial grasses to try and boost soil quality and improve water use while maintaining crop yields ...

A six-year field experiment was conducted in the Loess Plateau to explore the impacts of five planting patterns, namely fallow(C0), continuous maize cropping(C1), continuous alfalfa cropping(C2), ...

Nitrogen fertilizers play an essential role in ensuring global food security. However, the applied fertilizer-nitrogen, particularly that exceeding crop demand and soil N retention capacity, can ...

Accurate and timely information on planting intensity and crop rotation is essential for guiding agricultural policies and ensuring food security. However, reliable and up-to-date maps for major crops ...

Oroville >> Every year, the county’s top agricultural official gives his dusty boots a rest and sits down for some number crunching. Butte County crop reports, which began in 1939, are created through ...

Diagram illustrating the impact of natural factors, soil parameters, and nitrogen (N) application rate on the proportion of fertilizer-N losses to the applied N in the cropping seasons of wheat, rice, ...