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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE FAQ

• Soil nutrient management is a necessary component of any sustainable agriculture strategy. A nutrient management plan should include...
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• Foliar feeding is an effective method for correcting soil deficiencies and overcoming the soil’s inability to transfer nutrients to the plant. Tests have shown that foliar feeding can  be 8 to 10 times more effective than soil feeding and...
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• Fungi that colonize the root zones of plants and surrounding soil can be beneficial for plant growth. As the fungi enlarge...
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• Rhizobia bacteria are a group of soil based microorganisms (SBO's) which establish symbiotic relationships with legumes. These SBO's form nodules on the roots of the legumes and provide...
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• On a hot summer day the level of C0₂ ...
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• Tests show that  up to 90 percent of a foliar fed fertilizer solution can be found in the smallest root of a plant within...
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• Soil must not only be capable of storing nutrients but it must also be able to transfer these nutrients to the root surface for uptake by the plant...
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• Healthy soil is a combination of minerals, rock, water, air, organic matter (plant and animal residue), microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi and protozoa and a variety of insects and worms. This intricate web carries out a process that...
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• Plants require the following nutrients...
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• Biological fertilizers are not chemical based and are generally comprised of materials and extracts derived from...
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• Biological fertilizers promote plant growth in a number of ways…
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• Controlling Insects with Companion Planting...
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• Sustainable agriculture systems avoid or limit the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides...
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• Over a 14 year period in Canada, cultivated brown prairie soils lost 26% of their soil organic matter and 33% of their N (Campbell et al, 1975 in Blaine 1993)...
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• Plants obtain nutrients for their biosynthetic processes in the form of carbon dioxide, water, nitrate, phosphate, and ionic forms of potassium, calcium, and other essential elements. Nitrogen generally enters the roots as nitrate and becomes assimilated by the plant’s bio-chemistry into...
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• Where do Agro-Chemicals go?
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• Disease Management in Clovers, Alfalfa...
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• Disease Management in Oats...
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• Disease Management in Rye
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• Growing plants - Glossary...
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• Some sources of plant nutrients are...
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• Tillage and Seed Bed Preparation - Stand establishment is a critical crop yield factor for all crops, especially in saline soils. Salts affect germination and emergence in a manner similar to seedbed drying. Stand loss from poor emergence is directly proportional to...
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• Because of their three-foot deep roots, dandelions bring up minerals from beneath the hardpan and help restore the soil...
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• Fertilizer N is not normally needed for field crops grown on organic soils...
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• From the beginning of human history through the 1940's, virtually all of the agriculture on earth was sustainable. That is to say...
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• According to a recent analysis of USDA and FDA data, each day in the United States more than a million children age 5 and under, who eat a normal diet, ingest doses of organic phosphate pesticides that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s adult reference doses...
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• DIAZINON
Today, EPA announced an agreement to phase-out diazinon, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States, for indoor uses, beginning in March 2001, and for all lawn, garden and turf uses by December 2003...
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