Some people find them inconvenient, but I do enjoy throwing field peas into the seed mix with nurse crops as they add nitrogen to the soil and goodies to the hay. LRM The pea is grown as a field crop for the production of grain for stock-feeding and for the manufacture of “split pea...
agri-environment schemes, functional group, grass margins, litter-feeders, predators, seed mix, soil disturbance, soil-feeders1. The establishment of grassy strips at the margins of arable fields is an agri-environment scheme that aims to provide resources for native flora and fauna and thus ...
The effects of seed mix and management on the abundance of desirable and pernicious unsown species in arable buffer strip communities SummaryBuffer strips are refuges for a variety of plants providing resources, such as pollen, nectar and seeds, for higher trophic levels, including invert... D,...
(<6 perennial species/quadrat in 2000, compared to 6-8 for other treatments). After 13 years, naturally regenerated plots tended to have fewer species than plots sown with a wildflower seed mix (9-12 species/plot in 2000), but this difference was not statistically significant. There was no...
In May 1993, one plot in each pair was sown with a native seed mix (four grass and 10 forb species sown at a rate of 20 kg/ha), while the other was left unsown. Both plots in each pair received the same grazing and/or cutting treatment each year (six treatments were applied ...
This article was originally published in the Spring 2024 edition of Virtual Beef. Pastures in Ontario usually consist of a mix of bunchgrasses and sod-forming grasses. This diversity in plant structure encourages livestock to sort through the pasture, spending grazing time seeking the most palatabl...
The Vale Airfield is a 1300m grass runway running parallel to the Dasher River in NorthWest Tasmania. It is situated only a couple of nautical miles from a beautiful mountain, Mount Roland. This 4000ft granite beast dominates the local view all the way to the nearby town of Sheffield. It...
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) is a wild C4 perennial prairie grass native to North America and has been promoted as a potential biofuel crop due to its biomass yield potential when grown in marginal soil. Its biological features and environmental and economic impact have made switchgrass a popular...
resist fire, a young tree has to invest a lot of biomass in its belowground system in order to resprout quickly after fire, while to survive competition for light in an open environment, a young tree has to invest a lot into a tall stem which will overtop its neighbours (and grass). ...
Twenty wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes were grown in pots (15 cm in diameter × 15 cm in height) which contained 2 kg of University of California potting mix with complete plant nutrients. One pre-germinated seed per pot was grown in a growth room with 15/10°C (day/night...