Corn, like many other vegetables, prefers acidic and neutral soils with a pH between 5.5 and 6.5. Thus, it is advised to conduct soil testing to ascertain that the soil’s pH is right for growing crops.The soil’s moisture and efficient drainage are also important factors because of the ...
As a part of crop residue management, you may chop the stalks that are left over after harvesting and distribute them all across the field as mulch to improve the soil.When growing the crop for fodder, you have the option of focusing on either quantity or quality. For more protein (...
leaves. It’s usually left on the field and tilled back into soil when it’s ready to be re-seeded. However, with US corn output rising (up a projected11 percent this year) and grain yield topping 175 bushels per acre, many farmers have more corn ...
Vegetables can generally be divided into five classes of edible plant parts: root, tuber, leaf or leafstalk, flower and fruit. Root vegetables include carrots, beets and radishes while tubers include potatoes and sweet potatoes. Leaves include asparagus, kale, Swiss chard Swiss chard as well as...
pass on the sun's energy to the rest of the food web. As humans, we access this stored energy through digestion and by burning raw or processed plants. Petroleum is just long-dead organic matter transformed by geological forces, and first-generationbiofuelsare ginned up from corn, sugar cane...
TOWAOC — Ute Mountain Ute irrigation manager Michael Vicenti looked out from his reservation — toward the Navajos’ sacred “winged rock” and across the arid Southwest — then focused in front of his feet on three-foot-high stalks of blue corn. ...
For many, the experience ties them to the earth. The sense of freedom in an open field entices each season. Hall grew up with all the trappings of a future farmer, but a penchant for technology led him down a more experimental path--to the test farm of ag equi...
Texture modifiers such as maltodextrin or cornstarch help control the feel of the sunflowers when they are put in the mouth. Color modifiers are used to change the seed's appearance. Typically, natural coloring materials are used. These modifiers are useful for sunflower flavors such as barbeque...
At three or four or more dollars per pound, meat is one of the more expensive items in the grocery store. There’s usually some waste associated with that as well. Replacing it pound-for-pound with beans (just a simple example, but not too different from what many new vegans do) ...
The gardener has the choice of three “beginnings” for their onion patch. Onions can be grown from seed, like so many other annuals. They can also be planted from sets, which look like tiny cured onion bulbs. They can also be grown from baby onion plants, which look just like small,...