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Agriculture, Volume 14, Issue 1

January 2024 - 162 articles

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Cover Story: Climate plays a role in N management through changes in crop calendars, soil properties, agronomic practices, and yield effects. Multiple data sources indicate (but not prove) that colder climates are generally associated with higher levels of SOM-associated N stocks, but this may not result in greater crop N availability. Also, colder climates are on average associated with lower EONRs, which are mostly explained by lower yield expectations. But seasonal weather is an important superimposing factor impacting the EONR in all climates. Progress in N management therefore requires a dynamic approach that accounts for the effects of climate and weather with interacting agronomic factors for a specific growing environment. View this paper

Articles (162)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,639 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of Biochar Addition to Digestate, Slurry, and Manure for Mitigating Carbon Emissions

  • Leonardo Verdi,
  • Anna Dalla Marta,
  • Simone Orlandini,
  • Anita Maienza,
  • Silvia Baronti and
  • Francesco Primo Vaccari

The contribution of animal waste storage on GHG emissions and climate change is a serious issue for agriculture. The carbon emissions that are generated from barns represent a relevant source of emissions that negatively affect the environmental perf...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,022 Views
30 Pages

Applying Remote Sensing, Sensors, and Computational Techniques to Sustainable Agriculture: From Grain Production to Post-Harvest

  • Dágila Melo Rodrigues,
  • Paulo Carteri Coradi,
  • Newiton da Silva Timm,
  • Michele Fornari,
  • Paulo Grellmann,
  • Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado,
  • Paulo Eduardo Teodoro,
  • Larissa Pereira Ribeiro Teodoro,
  • Fábio Henrique Rojo Baio and
  • José Luís Trevizan Chiomento

In recent years, agricultural remote sensing technology has made great progress. The availability of sensors capable of detecting electromagnetic energy and/or heat emitted by targets improves the pre-harvest process and therefore becomes an indispen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,473 Views
15 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Climatic Variables and Reference Evapotranspiration in Tunisian Semi-Arid Region

  • Basma Latrech,
  • Taoufik Hermassi,
  • Samir Yacoubi,
  • Adel Slatni,
  • Fathia Jarray,
  • Laurent Pouget and
  • Mohamed Ali Ben Abdallah

Systematic biases in general circulation models (GCM) and regional climate models (RCM) impede their direct use in climate change impact research. Hence, the bias correction of GCM-RCMs outputs is a primary step in such studies. This study compares t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,826 Views
16 Pages

This study estimates consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for sustainability turfgrass attributes such as low-input and stress-tolerance attributes, while considering potential trade-off relationships between aesthetic attributes and sustainabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,725 Views
14 Pages

Effect of Pulsed Electric Field Treatment on Seed Germination and Seedling Growth of Scutellaria baicalensis

  • Yanbo Song,
  • Weiyu Zhao,
  • Zhenxian Su,
  • Shuhong Guo,
  • Yihan Du,
  • Xinyue Song,
  • Xiaojing Shi,
  • Xiaofeng Li,
  • Yuli Liu and
  • Zhenyu Liu

To explore the effects of pulsed electric field treatment on the germination of Scutellaria baicalensis seeds and the growth of seedlings, this study used the response surface methodology to design the working parameters of the pulsed electric field...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,082 Views
16 Pages

Characteristics and Migration Dynamics of Microplastics in Agricultural Soils

  • Yuxin Deng,
  • Zijie Zeng,
  • Weiying Feng,
  • Jing Liu and
  • Fang Yang

The risks brought by microplastics (MPs) to agricultural soil structure and crop growth in the agricultural system are the focus of global debate. MPs enter the soil through various routes, such as through the use of agricultural mulch and atmospheri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,725 Views
22 Pages

In this article, the impact of the Russia–Ukraine conflict on food security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is analyzed. With Ukraine being recognized as one of the major global grain producers and exporters, the conflict is s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,867 Views
17 Pages

Lightweight Pig Face Feature Learning Evaluation and Application Based on Attention Mechanism and Two-Stage Transfer Learning

  • Zhe Yin,
  • Mingkang Peng,
  • Zhaodong Guo,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Yaoyu Li,
  • Wuping Zhang,
  • Fuzhong Li and
  • Xiaohong Guo

With the advancement of machine vision technology, pig face recognition has garnered significant attention as a key component in the establishment of precision breeding models. In order to explore non-contact individual pig recognition, this study pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,990 Views
30 Pages

Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) cause damage to agricultural crops in their native range as well as in the portions of the globe where they have been introduced. In the US, states with the highest introduced wild pig populations are Alabama, Arkansas, Califor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,447 Views
21 Pages

Legumes, due to their symbiosis with papillary bacteria, can receive nitrogen from the air. The remaining nutrients must be supplied in fertilisers, either soil or foliar. In the pot experiment, we recorded the responses of two soybean cultivars (Ann...

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