Kura Clover Living Mulch Reduces Fertilizer N Requirements and Increases Profitability of Maize

Impact of Kura Clover Living Mulch on Nitrous Oxide Emissions in a Corn-Soybean System.

Nitrous oxide (NO), produced primarily in agricultural soils, is a potent greenhouse gas and is the dominant ozone-depleting substance. Efforts to reduce NO emissions are underway, but mitigation results have been inconsistent. The leguminous perennial kura clover ( M. Bieb.) (KC) can grow side-by-side with cash crops in rotational corn ( L.)-soybean ( L.) systems. With biological nitrogen fixa...

Performance of Winter Wheat Varieties in White Clover Living Mulch

The choice of variety for agricultural systems with multiple crops may differ from the one used in sole crop because of the changes in environmental conditions brought about by interspecific plant competition. Information about varietal performance under living mulch conditions as well as the suitability of the results of the official variety testing, conducted under conventional cropping condi...

Maize Yield Response to Fertilizer and Profitability of Fertilizer Use among Small-scale Maize Producers in Zambia

Tillage, Mulch and N Fertilizer Affect Emissions of CO2 under the Rain Fed Condition

A two year (2010-2012) study was conducted to assess the effects of different agronomic management practices on the emissions of CO2 from a field of non-irrigated wheat planted on China's Loess Plateau. Management practices included four tillage methods i.e. T1: (chisel plow tillage), T2: (zero-tillage), T3: (rotary tillage) and T4: (mold board plow tillage), 2 mulch levels i.e., M0 (no corn re...

Spring Yield and Silage Characteristics of Kura Clover, Winter Wheat, and in Mixtures

Kura clover (Trifolium ambiguumM. Bieb.) grown in monoculture is difficult to harvest mechanically because of its decumbent growth habit, and legumes in general have poor ensiling characteristics. Our objectives were to assess forage yield, nutritive value, and silage characteristics of kura clover–winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) mixtures to determine usefulness as a silage crop. ‘Cardinal’...