Crop Diversity, Rotations, and Systems for Soil Health
Webinar Details
When:
Sep 28, 2011 2:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:13 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Reviewed for Continued Content Relevance: 07/2016
Presenter(s):
- Ray Archuleta, Conservation Agronomist, USDA NRCS East National Technology Support Center, Greensboro, NC
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 1 hour Conservation Planning Credit
Virtual Event Format:
Group Viewing Available:
Viewers learn how incorporating crop diversity through varied crop rotations, use of cover crop mixes, and minimizing soil disturbance can improve soil health.
Most producers view cover crops and crop diversity as “optional management practices” for their farming operation. Increasingly, research suggests that plant and animal biodiversity regulates function in agroecosystems. Biodiversity performs a variety of ecological services beyond the production of food, including recycling of nutrients, regulation of microclimate and local hydrological processes, suppression of undesirable organisms, detoxification of noxious chemicals, and reducing our dependency on petroleum-based products. View this webinar to learn how incorporating biodiversity in agroecosystems increases soil function to increase crop protection and soil fertility.
This webinar is sponsored by the USDA NRCS East National Technology Support Center.
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