Broccoli Production in Forage Soybean and Foxtail Millet Cover Crop Mulches

Enhanced Pest Management with Cover Crop Mulches

Living and dead plant vegetation on the surface of soils can provide opportunities for regulating pest populations in no-tillage production systems. Cover crops generate substantial quantities of surface vegetation and residue that can be managed to enhance control of pests. Research at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center has shown that weed germination and emergence is inhibited by hig...

Forage Crop Production

Modelling a Millet Cover Crop and Subsequent Maize Production in the Tropical Cerrados of Brazil

Estimation of clover content of mixed swards is difficult in practise. We are currently in the processof developing several on-farm methods for clover content estimation. 1. Photos with various clovercontents are published in the Internet. 2. Yield samples with known area from several points of thefield are separated for clovers and grasses and weighted. 3. The clover content of...

Genetic structure of landraces in foxtail millet (Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.) revealed with transposon display and interpretation to crop evolution of foxtail millet.

Although the origin and domestication process of foxtail millet (Setaria italica subsp. italica (L.) P. Beauv.) has been studied by several groups, the issue is still ambiguous. It is essential to resolve this issue by studying a large number of accessions with sufficient markers covering the entire genome. Genetic structures were analyzed by transposon display (TD) using 425 accessions of foxt...

bastan, a new foxtail millet cultivar adapted to short growing season for forage production

the main objective for development and introduction of the new cultivar was to a achieve a high yielding and adaptative to short growing period or a catch crop, suitable for growing in different areas of iran. after preliminary selections carried out during 1998-2000, 72 foxtail millet populations which had been collected from different parts of iran, were examined and based on different agrono...