The results of research on spring triticale varieties for 2015-–2019 showed that root rot severity Uzor variety by the end growing season (st. 85) ranged from 4,0 to 30,4 %, Doublet – 9,2 42,3 % and Sadko 4,6 32,3 %. A high was noted in years when amount precipitation lowest (2015) or highest (2017) relative norm. polynomial dependence (R2 = 0,75) found between area under disease progress curve...

Perennial grasses have been proposed as viable bioenergy crops because of their potential to yield harvestable biomass on marginal lands annually without displacing food and to contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction by storing carbon in soil. Switchgrass, miscanthus, and restored native prairie are among the crops being considered in the corn and agricultural regions of the Midwest and ea...

Intensive farming and short crop rotations have encountered problems of soil degradation. Finding solutions to these as well new challenges requires returning old practices, adapting them current issues. In 1965, a field experiment (crop rotation collection) was set up at the Experimental Station Vytautas Magnus University, significance which not only did decrease, but became increasingly more ...

There’s a continuing gap between attitudes towards genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe and elsewhere. While the US, Canada, China, India and many other countries are adopting them with gusto, most European countries remain at best cautious and at worst completely hostile to their introduction. The reasons for Europe’s apparent Luddism are many and complex. In some countries there is a gen...

The yield of rainfed crops is commonly limited by the availability of soil water during the summer growing season. Channels produced by cover crop roots in fall/winter when soils are relatively moist may facilitate the penetration of compacted soils by subsequent crop roots in summer when soils are relatively dry and hard. Our objective was to determine the effects of fall cover crops on maize ...