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Subject listing for: Integrated Nutrient Management |
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This Core4 article discusses the need for nutrient management planning on dairy and livestock farms in New York and the northeastern US and presents a case study of a NY farm.
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This Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas resource page contains web links on general soil biology, mycorrhizae, arthropods, soil bacteria, soil quality measures, earthworms, cover cropping, and other topics, as well as links to ATTRA publications on soil management.
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The Center for International Forestry Research has researched a way to provide a framework that analyzes the challenge for soil fertility research and devises management strategies that produce food in sufficient quantity and quality whilst also providing soil-based ecosystem services.
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This fact sheet helps people to manage manure as a crop nutrient resource, not a waste product. It outlines steps to determine its nutrient content, calculate the proper application rate based on your management objectives, crop yield potential, and soil test values for the field(s) that will receive manure.
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Core4 is a US-based approach to improved farm profitability and environmental conservation. The site contains information on conservation tillage, crop nutrient management, weed and pest management, conservation buffers, a catalog, links, and more.
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Los experimentos se realizaron en dos estaciones experimentales del Instituto Agronómico de Saõ Pablo (Brasil) con suelos distintos. Publicado en Terra, Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de la Ciencia del Suelo, A.C. vol. 20 no. 1 2002 (formato PDF).
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A joint effort by the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture and the Conservation Technology Information Center has produced three virtual tours of nutrient management technologies or methods. The titles are "InStreem Lagoon Manure Management", "Dairy Manure Flush System with Two-stage Lagoon", and "InStreem Open Water Management". Many more tours are under construction and Quick Time for Windows is needed to view completed tours (Freely downloadable from this site).
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This IIED working papers discusses farmer responses to declining soil fertility in banana cropping systems of the Lake Victoria Crescent region of Uganda. It also describes a research study to determine partial nutrient balances for selected farms, and recommendations to farmers for better nutrient management. (PDF)
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This paper discusses research conducted through the University of Pennsylvania (USA) into balancing dairy cattle feed to provide adequate nutrition while reducing nitrogen excretion in manure.
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This 1999 World Bank Agriculture Technology Note defines the concept of integrated nutrient management. It also describes possible interventions for different areas, cropping systems, or soil types.
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IFPRI has examined many ideas behind soil fertility, the challenges with soil fertility, as well as responses at both the farmer and institutional level. A section is also devoted to Sub-Saharan Africa. (pdf)
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This paper discusses the challenge for agriculture to meet the world’s increasing demand for food in a sustainable way. It calls for an Integrated Nutrient Management approach to the management of plant nutrients for maintaning and enhancing soil. The key components of this approach are described; the roles and responsibilities of various actors, including farmers and institutions,
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This paper in pdf format published by IFPRI in 2000 discusses integrated nutrient management as a tool to improve plant and soil nutrition and to increase agricultural production. It focuses on sub-saharan Africa and the challenges for farmers.
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This September 2000 brief published by IFPRI, defines integrated nutrient management (INM). It also discusses the potential role for INM in increasing agricultural productivity as world population increases.
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This site outlines facts about legume seed inoculants, the process of inoculation, types of commercial inoculants, selecting the correct inoculant as well as the storage of inoculum.
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LPES is a US national educational program for livestock and poultry advisors built by a team from land grant universities, the US Department of Agriculture, and the MidWest Plan Service. Curriculum materials are available on-line format or for sale in a searchable cd format. Lessons of particular potential interest regard nutrient and manure management.
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This site discusses the effects of modern agricultural techniques and tillage on microorganisms, soil health and fertility in the Great Plains area (USA).
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This report published by GTZ in 1999 provides a general guide to improving integrated nutrient management on industrial tree plantations in Indonesia.
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This Penn State Cooperative Extension (USA) publication is available in pdf format. It discusses nutrient management and soil fertility in conservation tillage systems.
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This 1997 edition of ILEIA Magazine covers rebuilding soil fertility in low external input sustainable agricultural systems. It includes articles on green manure, swidden agriculture, integrated nutrient management, and soil and water conservation.
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ACRES USA discusses the Albrecht Model of soil management. It explains model concepts as well as soil analysis and explanations.
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This resource page from University of Minnesota Extension (USA) has practical information for farmers and others on how soil management affects soil biology and soil productivity.
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This paper describes the relationship between soybeans and the thirteen mineral nutrients essential for proper soil fertility.
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This FAO soils bulletin is an detailed online book that describes and discusses concepts and strategies for sustainable dryland cropping systems, from soil chemical and biological factors to social and economic issues.
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This IIED working paper documents the development of a short-term and a longer term approach to participatory research on integrated soil fertility management in Malawi. It discusses the methods, and highlights the problems and the lessons learned during the process. This paper costs $7 to access off the internet. (PDF)
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The WWW virtual library page on soils and substrates from METLA, the Finnish Forest Research Institute, has a variety of links on basic soil structure, populations, and processes
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