Crops and Soil

HOME & GARDEN LETTERS (San Francisco Chronicle)

9 Jul 2008

With pony and plow come plentiful crops Editor - I loved your article about home gardens and creative ways to share the bounty ("Gardening for fun - and profit," June 28). When I was raising my children in the '70s and '80s, we lived in an old New England...

Integrated farming reaps success (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

9 Jul 2008

SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ – In 2005, farmer Patricio Castillo, 40, asked 28 of his neighbors in the farming village of San Joaquin in Balungao, Pangasinan, to work with him on his three-hectare lot to raise crops and animals for food.

Crop management: How small do we go? (PhysOrg)

8 Jul 2008

The use of on-the-go crop and soil sensors has greatly increased the precision with which farmers can manage their crops. Recently released research in Agronomy Journal questions whether more precise management is necessarily more efficient. They discovered that the law of diminishing returns applies to precision agriculture, calculating how large of an application area is optimal for precision ...