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Calculating Manure and Manure Nutrient Application Rates

Description:
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.

Accessible from:
http://www.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/Pubs/AY/AY-277.html

Imperial College at Wye: Soil Fertility and Nutrient Cycling

Description:
This homepage for the Research Group on Soil Fertility and Nutrient Cycling outlines the group's research and describes specific projects.

Accessible from:
http://www.wye.imperial.ac.uk/sme/projects/soil/index.html

Legume Seed Inoculants

Description:
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.

Accessible from:
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/crops/00305.html

Nitrogen Fixing Trees: Multipurpose Pioneers

Description:
This paper discusses nitrogen fixing trees (NFT's) and their uses in agroforestry. It includes tips for planting them, an explanation of nitrogen fixation (including diagram), and references for further information.

Accessible from:
http://www.agroforester.com/articles/NFTs.html

Nutrient cycling and agroforestry in Africa

Description:
This article in a 1996 edition of Unasylva, a journal published by FAO, discusses the role of agroforestry in nutrient cycling, with a focus on nitrogen and phosphorus, in smallholder maize based systems of Africa.

Accessible from:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w0312E/w0312e06.htm

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Description:
This subscription based journal available on-line and in print was formerly titled Fertilizer Research. It publishes papers dealing with carbon and nutrient cycling and management, effects on ecology, agronomy, the environment, and economics.

Accessible from:
http://kapis1.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1385-1314

¿Por que estudiar la agricultura tradicional?

Description:
Escrito por Miguel A., este artículo en la Revista de CLADES, Agroecología y Desarrollo (marzo 1991), incluye una tabla con ejemplos de sistemas de manejo de suelos, agua, y vegetación utilizados por agricultores tradicionales del Tercer Mundo y referencias a la literatura científica.

Accessible from:
http://www.clades.org/r1-art2.htm


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