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Isaac R. Vincent, Erin N. Rosskopf, Jeffrey K. Brecht, Nicholas S. Dufault, Germán Sandoya-Miranda and Xin Zhao
The use of high tunnels, which allows growers to extend their season and improve yields, is increasing in the Southeastern U.S., yet growers face challenges related to weed and disease management, particularly in organic systems. On-station experiments w...
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Mariarosaria Sicignano, Luisa del Piano, Luigi Morra, Tommaso Enotrio, Salvatore Baiano, Antonio Salluzzo, Antonio Merola and Francesco Raimo
The use of peat, the standard substrate used for soilless cultivation of horticultural crops, is becoming of increasing concern as peat is a non-renewable resource and its extraction can degrade wetland ecosystems, creating a strong environmental impact....
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Biao Liu, Wei Chen, Zhen Wang, Zhaohui Guo, Yongmei Li, Lijuan Xu, Minxi Wu and Hongmei Yin
Nitrogen loss is an unavoidable problem during organic waste composting, while exogenous microbial inoculation is a promising strategy for reducing nitrogen loss and improving compost quality. This study was designed to probe available nitrogen levels, b...
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Rita Leogrande, Carolina Vitti, Mirko Castellini, Pasquale Garofalo, Ignazio Samarelli, Giovanni Lacolla, Francesco Fabiano Montesano, Matteo Spagnuolo, Marcello Mastrangelo and Anna Maria Stellacci
The residual effect of compost and biochar amendment on soil properties and durum wheat response was evaluated under field conditions in a Mediterranean environment. The treatments compared in a randomized complete block experimental design with three re...
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Ralf Gottschall, Maria Thelen-Jüngling, Martin Kranert and Bertram Kehres
In this study, the suitability of biowaste and green waste composts in organic farming is presented based on quality assurance data of approximately 21,000 compost analyses from 2015 to 2020. The evaluation of compost suitability was based on both the le...
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Carolina Bilibio, Daniel Uteau, Malte Horvat, Ulla Rosskopf, Stephan Martin Junge, Maria Renate Finckh and Stephan Peth
In conservation agriculture, conservation tillage potentially influences the physical, chemical, and biological quality of the soil. Although the effects of conservation agriculture on the soil?s physical properties have been studied in conventional mana...
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Victor Kavvadias, Zacharias Ioannou, Evangelia Vavoulidou and Christos Paschalidis
The proper management of treated agricultural wastes (e.g., composts) contributes to the protection of water and soil quality by reducing the use of chemical fertilizers, lowering leachate, and protecting renewable and nonrenewable resources. Natural zeo...
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Alicia Hernández-Lara, Margarita Ros, Almudena Giménez, Diego A. Moreno, Francisco J. Díaz-Galiano, María Jesús Martínez-Bueno, Pedro Lozano-Pastor and José Antonio Pascual
Solar radiation and the incorporation of compost into soil is a practice for disinfecting soil that could have some other effects on spinach cultivation. The quality of spinach leaves after two types of soil disinfection, non-amended soil (NAS) and compo...
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Yassin M. Soliman, Wagdi S. Soliman and Ahmed M. Abbas
Alley cropping is a sustainable agriculture approach that improves ecosystem services while also promoting biodiversity. The current study was conducted over two seasons, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021, to examine the impact of leucaena?turmeric alley cropping ...
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M. A. M. Moursy, Amro Negm, H. G. Ghanem and Kamal I. Wasfy
Fish drainage water is a non-conventional water resource that can be exploited for irrigation due to its constituents of beneficial nutrients, signifying it as environment-friendly bio-fertilizers. Limited water resources, the elevated cost of mineral fe...
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