A study in southern Spain shows that using cover crops instead of tillage in olive groves can significantly increase biodiversity, suggesting organic farming with cover crops or abandonment of groves for natural...
Tag - organic farming
Dale Maylea
Decision time: Inorganic or Organic..?
Plants need appropriate amounts of essential nutrients if they are to grow fully and generate the yield of which they are capable. Quite often, however, one of those essentials – principally, nitrogen (N) – is in...
Nigel Chaffey
Potential new herbicide
The contentious matter of plant GM (genetic manipulation – which always sounds more menacing and mankind-meddling-with-nature than GE, genetic engineering, or the other GM – genetic modification…) has been...
