project - Innovative project
Conservation Agriculture
Conservation Agriculture
Objectives
We are using a conservation agriculture system in our farm.
The system consider soil as the main engine of our "industry".
We have a combined crop and beef production.
No-till, crop rotation (wheat x forrage x wheat x Lupinus), manure (from beef production include rice husk and wheat straw from beds) and permanent prairies.
Objectives
We are using a conservation agriculture system in our farm.
The system consider soil as the main engine of our "industry".
We have a combined crop and beef production.
No-till, crop rotation (wheat x forrage x wheat x Lupinus), manure (from beef production include rice husk and wheat straw from beds) and permanent prairies.
Activities
We are using a conservation agriculture system in our farm.
The system consider soil as the main engine of our "industry".
We have a combined crop and beef production.
No-till, crop rotation (wheat x forrage x wheat x Lupinus), manure (from beef production include rice husk and wheat straw from beds) and permanent prairies.
Activities
We are using a conservation agriculture system in our farm.
The system consider soil as the main engine of our "industry".
We have a combined crop and beef production.
No-till, crop rotation (wheat x forrage x wheat x Lupinus), manure (from beef production include rice husk and wheat straw from beds) and permanent prairies.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Private funds
- Agricultural sectors
- Crops (generic)
Project keyword
1 Practice Abstracts
Using this system we increase efficiency on crop inputs use, less erosion, increase fertility and organic matter content, increase days of grazing cows, increase yields and water use efficiency.
This crop rotation explore the soil with different root systems increasing soil structure and consequentely soil drainage.
We start this system in 1989 but at that time available drillers were not reliable, so until 2000 we were using a mix of no-till and minimum tillage.
With appearance of reliable drillers in 2000 we put our system 100% under no-till and year after year results are getting better.
