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From 1974 to 1982, he was with the Purdue Agronomy Department as Extension/research specialist in corn production for Indiana. [4] He joined the staff of the Potash & Phosphate Institute (PPI) in 1982 and has been involved with a number of innovative agronomic research and education programs in the Midwest region.
Contour plowing, Pennsylvania, 1938 "Contour bunding", Catalonia, 2007. Contour plowing or contour farming is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines.
At Purdue University, Caldwell worked closely with Leroy Compton to study wheat leaf rust and expanded Purdue's breeding program for disease-resistant plants. They organized a three-crop per year rotation with two crops in the greenhouse and one in the field, including fall planting of grains such as winter wheat, barley, and oats.
The next year, Purdue granted Beard an honorary doctorate in agriculture. [5] In 2009, Beard received the Veitch Memorial Medal awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society, [1] followed by the Crop Science Society of America Presidential Award in 2014. [6] Beard died in Bryan, Texas, on May 14, 2018, aged 82. [1]
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. [7] The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture; [8] the first classes were held on September 16, 1874.
Agricultural engineering, also known as agricultural and biosystems engineering, is the field of study and application of engineering science and designs principles for agriculture purposes, combining the various disciplines of mechanical, civil, electrical, food science, environmental, software, and chemical engineering to improve the efficiency of farms and agribusiness enterprises [1] as ...
In agronomy, the BBCH-scale for cereals describes the phenological development of cereals using the BBCH-scale. Critical stages according to BBCH (Lancashire et al., 1991) and their deviations from the Zadok's scale (in brackets).
Nutrients in the soil are taken up by the plant through its roots, and in particular its root hairs.To be taken up by a plant, a nutrient element must be located near the root surface; however, the supply of nutrients in contact with the root is rapidly depleted within a distance of ca. 2 mm. [14] There are three basic mechanisms whereby nutrient ions dissolved in the soil solution are brought ...