48 articles in this issue
Emily Ane Dionizio and Marcos Heil Costa
Western Bahia is one of the most active agricultural frontiers in the world, which raises concern about its natural resources conservation, especially regarding water availability. This study evaluated the influence of five different land uses and land co... see more
Joseph Walls III, Edwin Rajotte and Cristina Rosa
Barley yellow dwarf (BYD) has been described as the most devastating cereal grain disease worldwide causing between 11% and 33% yield loss in wheat fields. There has been little focus on management of the disease in the literature over the past twenty yea... see more
Gulom Bekmirzaev, Jose Beltrao and Baghdad Ouddane
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Dana Zimmer, Kerstin Panten, Marcus Frank, Armin Springer and Peter Leinweber
Malinda S. Thilakarathna, Tejendra Chapagain, Bhawana Ghimire, Roshan Pudasaini, Bir Bhahadur Tamang, Khem Gurung, Khem Choi, Laxmi Rai, Samjhana Magar, Bishnu BK, Shankar Gaire and Manish N. Raizada
Studies have shown the potential of rhizobia and associated micronutrients to enhance symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes. Tens of millions of smallholder farmers, however, farm on mountain hillsides in highly variable soil and microenvironments, with ... see more
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David Reiser, El-Sayed Sehsah, Oliver Bumann, Jörg Morhard and Hans W. Griepentrog
Intra-row weeding is a time consuming and challenging task. Therefore, a rotary weeder implement for an autonomous electrical robot was developed. It can be used to remove the weeds of the intra-row area of orchards and vineyards. The hydraulic motor of t... see more
Md. Shahinoor Rahman, Liping Di, Eugene Yu, Chen Zhang and Hossain Mohiuddin
Crop type information at the field level is vital for many types of research and applications. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides information on crop types for US cropland as a Cropland Data Layer (CDL). However, CDL is only avail... see more
Chibi A. Takaya, Kiran R. Parmar, Louise A. Fletcher and Andrew B. Ross
The preparation of low-cost carbonaceous adsorbents for nitrogen recovery is of interest from agricultural and waste management perspectives. In this study, the gaseous ammonia (NH3) and aqueous ammonium (NH4+) sorption capacities have been measured for d... see more
Marianne Bechmann, Inga Greipsland and Anne Falk Øgaard
Diffuse phosphorus loss from agricultural fields is an important contributor to the eutrophication of waterbodies. The objective of this study was to evaluate a pilot project for the implementation of mitigation measures to reduce P losses. The pilot proj... see more
Danilo Loconsole, Giuseppe Cristiano and Barbara De Lucia
Lisa Wasko DeVetter, Wei Qiang Yang, Fumiomi Takeda, Scott Korthuis and Changying Li
Improved blueberry mechanical harvesting (MH) equipment that maintains fresh market quality are needed due to rising costs and decreasing availability of laborers for harvesting by hand. In 2017, a modified over-the-row (OTR) blueberry harvester with expe... see more
Eyke Lühken, Thies Nicolaisen, Britta Risch, Nina Volkmann, Sandra Schnier, Jochen Schulz and Nicole Kemper
The aim of this study was to analyze the air quality in two different commercially available free-farrowing systems in comparison with a conventional farrowing crate system. A group housing system for six lactating sows (GH) and a single loose-housing sys... see more
Thomas Hartinger, Nina Gresner and Karl-Heinz Südekum
Erick D. Smith
Thi Tam Duong, Tom Brewer, Jo Luck and Kerstin Zander
Farmers around the world face and manage a wide range of enterprise-related risks. These risks are increasing due to a range of factors including globalisation, increased trade in agricultural products, and climate change, jeopardising agricultural enterp... see more
Latifa Al Kharusi, Rashid Al Yahyai and Mahmoud W. Yaish
The salinity tolerance mechanism in date palm through antioxidation has not been completely deciphered to date. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the role of various antioxidants in salinity tolerance. Two date palm cultivars, contrasting in sali... see more
Ibrahim Bala, Muhammad M. Mukhtar, Habeeb K. Saka, Nasiru Abdullahi and Sulaiman S. Ibrahim
Martin Schmidt, Claas Nendel, Roger Funk, Matthew G. E. Mitchell and Gunnar Lischeid
In crop modeling and yield predictions, the heterogeneity of agricultural landscapes is usually not accounted for. This heterogeneity often arises from landscape elements like forests, hedges, or single trees and shrubs that cast shadows. Shading from for... see more
Richard W. Bell, Md. Enamul Haque, M. Jahiruddin, Md. Moshiur Rahman, Mahfuza Begum, M. A. Monayem Miah, Md. Ariful Islam, Md. Anwar Hossen, Nazmus Salahin, Taslima Zahan, Mohammad Mobarak Hossain, Md. Khairul Alam and Mir Nurul Hasan Mahmud
Panagiotis Dalias, Anastasis Christou and Damianos Neocleous
The study aimed at investigating eventual deviations from typical recommendations of irrigation water application to crops in Cyprus given the undeniable changes in recent weather conditions. It focused on the seasonal or monthly changes in crop evapotran... see more
Basil Odermatt, Nina Keil and Markus Lips
To promote the provision of animal-friendly housing and management exceeding the minimal legal standards, the Swiss government offers direct payments through two programs for several farm animal species. In dairy cows the BTS program pays for group housin... see more
Fabio Gaetano Santeramo, Valentina Guerrieri and Emilia Lamonaca
Trade agreements and trade measures are policy instruments thought to favour trade by providing a degree of harmonisation among members. We analyse how the agri-food trade and the incidence of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPSs) have evolved withi... see more
Simon Munder, Dimitrios Argyropoulos and Joachim Müller