{"id":372,"date":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/conservation-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","slug":"conservation-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/conservation-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A management system for growing crops that is based on three principles that should be applied together and reinforce each other: minimum <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/ph\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"a value that indicates the acidity of the soil\" class=\"encyclopedia\">ph<\/a>ysical soil disturbance (<a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/no-till\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"a method of growing grain when the farmer does not plow the field before planting\" class=\"encyclopedia\">no till<\/a>ing); permanent soil cover with live or dead plant material (mulching or growing cover crops); and crop diversification in space and time (growing complementary crops together, and <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/crop-rotation\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Varying from year to year what is grown on a particular piece of land. This practice helps to avoid the build-up of pests and diseases specific to a particular crop. One crop may also put back into the soil nutrients taken out by another.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">crop rotation<\/a>). <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/herbicides\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Chemicals used to control or destroy weeds.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Herbicides<\/a> are sometimes promoted as being part of conservation agriculture however, if conservation agriculture is to be truly sustainable, <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/herbicides\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Chemicals used to control or destroy weeds.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">herbicides<\/a> cannot form part of the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A management system for growing crops that is based on three principles that should be applied together and reinforce each other: minimum physical soil disturbance (no tilling); permanent soil cover with live or dead plant material (mulching or growing cover crops); and crop diversification in space and time (growing complementary crops together, and crop rotation). 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