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Applications and advances in using phospholipid fatty acids (plfas) as biomarkers in analysing soil microbial communities
Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis is a widely used biomarker-based method for assessing microbial community structure and soil health. This technique provides insights into microbial biomass, community composition, and physiological status by extracting and analyzing microbial lipids from s...
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Advances in dna based methods for assessing abundance and diversity and of soil microbial groups
A revolution in sequencing and bioinformatics technology has led to a steep increase in research studies that include microbial community characterization. Many of these studies utilize amplicon sequencing, targeting bacteria and fungi and seek to draw correlations between the presence and abunda...
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Trace element contaminants in agricultural soils: challenges and solutions
This chapter explores the challenges and solutions to trace element contaminants in agricultural soils. Trace elements are naturally occurring environmental components but human activities have significantly altered their distribution, leading to contamination across various environmental compart...
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The use of sheep in mixed farming systems for improved sustainability
Improving sheep system sustainability is of key importance to producers, processors, retailers and government, yet balancing interdependent and opposing environmental, economic and social factors is a Herculean task. Mixed farming systems provide an option for improving all three facets of sustai...
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Advances in analytical techniques for detecting contaminants in soils
Soil contamination, stemming from both anthropogenic and natural origins, remains a critical environmental and public health concern. This contamination spectrum is diverse, encompassing inorganic elements like heavy metal(loid)s—lead, mercury, arsenic—and organic compounds such as pesticide resi...
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Bioremediation: advances in using soil organic amendments to manage contaminants in agricultural soils
When the EU Soil Observatory stated that 61% of EU soils are in an unhealthy state, contamination was one of the main reasons. Common contaminants include persistent organic pollutants, drug and veterinary product residues, microplastics, and residues from excessive fertilizer or pesticide applic...
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Advances in soil quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qpcr) techniques for identifying and studying soil microbial communities
This chapter explores advances in quantitative PCR (qPCR) techniques for identifying and studying soil microbial communities. The authors begin by describing the principles of qPCR. This is followed by sections discussing factors affecting the reproducibility of qPCR assays, and qPCR targets. The...
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Advances in risk assessment of contaminated agricultural soils
Contaminants associated with agriculture is a major concern for environmental health, food safety, and sustainable farming. The contamination, stemming from diverse sources like industrial pollution, use of biosolids, secondary treated water, waste mismanagement, overuse of agrochemicals, and acc...
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Phytoremediation: advances in soil contaminant immobilization/phytostabilization combining soil amendments and vegetative cover
Remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals and metalloids should give priority to risk minimisation by reduction of their bioavailable fraction that poses actual risk. This may be achieved in certain situations, and within a reasonable timespan, using immobilisation/phytostabilization st...
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Crop modeling with simple simulation models (ssm)
Models can be effective tools, and in many cases essential tools, to understand and predict the development, growth, and yield of crops in response to variation in environment, plant genetics, and management. Criteria for such effective models are that they are transparent and robust. The family ...
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The cropgrow model
The CropGrow series model, comprising WheatGrow and RiceGrow, was developed by the Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture at Nanjing Agricultural University. The model integrates cutting-edge methodologies, such as system analysis, dynamic modeling, scenario simulation, and...
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The genotype-by-environment interaction on crop growth simulator model
The Genotype-by-Environment interaction on CROp growth Simulator (GECROS) is a generic crop model that specifically addresses carbon-nitrogen, root-shoot, and source-sink interactions to predict crop responses to weather variables and soil water and nitrogen supply. GECROS uses relatively few, ea...
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The systems approach to land use sustainability (salus) model
This chapter explores SALUS (Systems Approach to Land Use Sustainability), a process-based crop model designed to simulate interactions between soil, climate, genetics and agronomic management, focusing on their effects on crop growth and yield, soil organic matter and nitrogen dynamics. SALUS ex...
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Infocrop: a process-based dynamic crop simulation model for analysing genotype x environment interactions in tropical crops
This chapter explains the development, key components, and applications of InfoCrop: a process-based, dynamic simulation model developed by Indian scientists to simulate the growth, development, and yield of major tropical crops. These include wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, soybean, c...
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Swapwofost: a combined ecohydrological and crop growth simulation model
The ecohydrological and crop growth simulation model combination SwapWofost is a model that can be used for crop simulation when detailed soil moisture processes, such as for example capillairy rise, salination, etc., have to be considered. It has been succesfully used in the Netherlands, Argenti...
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The crop, land, and soil simulation (classim) group of models
Process-level crop models integrate mathematical representations of the soil-plant-atmosphere with genetic, environment, and management factors. These tools support a range of needs including on-farm decision support, scientific inquiry, crop breeding, and climate impact assessments. The USDA-ARS...
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The daisy crop model
The process-based model Daisy simulates complex crop traits in different environments through various process descriptions for water and solute/nitrogen transport and crop growth of diverse agroecosystems and managements. Daisy runs in one or two dimensions, in the field (basic management unit) o...
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The aquacrop model
FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) launched in 2009 the dynamic crop growth model “AquaCrop” to predict yield response to water of herbaceous crops. After a brief description of the calculation scheme and the input requirements, the chapter discusses the parametriza...
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The simplace crop and ecosystem management modelling platform
Process-based crop models have become a central tool for agricultural systems analysis, allowing scientists to explicitly define model structures most suited to a given research question and data availability. With the evolution of computation and programming language paradigms, algorithms descri...
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The light interception and utilisation family of crop models
There is a wide range of models in the LINTUL family of crop growth models. All are based on a simple relationship between leaf area index and light interception and the concept of light or radiation use efficiency to convert intercepted radiation into dry matter. This chapter provides an overvie...
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The agricultural land management alternative with numerical assessment criteria (almanac) model
Process based simulation model combining an easily parameterized plant model with readily available soils data and weather data, are valuable tools for a wide variety of management, environmental, and climate change scenarios. The Agricultural Land Management Alternative with Numerical Assessment...
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The simulator of crop trait assembly, management response and adaptation crop model
SAMARA was developed to study in-silico plant type (ideotype) concepts submitted to different climatic/soil environments and management practices. The originality of the model relies on (1) the integration of substantial morphological detail of plants organ cohorts (leaves, tillers, internodes), ...
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The usda root zone water quality model
The USDA Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM), developed in the 1980s and released in 1992, simulates root zone processes based on earlier models like CREAMS, GLEAMS, and NTRM. It includes modules for water balance, soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, plant growth, energy balance, solute transport...
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The cycles agroecosystem model
Cycles is a process-based model of the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum that functions as both a knowledge repository and analytical tool. This chapter outlines its structure, highlights its use in in-silico trait exploration and modeling of biogenic carbon and water cycles, and presents three cas...
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The denitrification-decomposition (dndc) model
DNDC is a well-established biogeochemical crop model that has been featured in over 400 peer-reviewed publications and excels at quantifying agricultural impact under diverse environmental and management conditions. DNDC employs a thermal time-driven biomass accumulation sub-model across all crop...
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The monica agroecosystem model
This chapter describes the MONICA agroecosystem model, its development from the original HERMES model, its main features, and example applications for various tasks across scales. MONICA allows a balanced view on crop and soil processes when simulating cropping systems over a wide range of enviro...
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The wofost (world food studies) cropping system model
The WOFOST cropping system model is a process-based model developed by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) for a wide array of applications such as yield forecasting, climate impact assessments, yield gap analysis and agronomic decision support. The latest versions, WOFOST 7.3 and 8.1, int...
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The stics soil-crop model: a generic model to simulate the functioning of agroecosystems
This chapter offers a general presentation of the STICS soil-crop model. Through numerous illustrations dealing notably with genetic x environment x management interactions, it presents an overview of the wide domain of validity of the model, along with its performances, demonstrating its potenti...
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Instant insights: understanding and managing diseases affecting sheep
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the main diseases which pose a threat to sheep production, including diseases which impact the reproductive, nervous and respiratory systems, as well as diseases of the skin and feet. The book also reviews best practices for managing these diseases, ...
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Instant insights: understanding and tackling pests and diseases of forest trees
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of pests and diseases affecting boreal, temperate and tropical forests, as well as best practices for their monitoring and management.
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Instant insights: soil contaminants
This book provides a detailed overview of key groups of contaminants in agricultural soils, the range of indicators used to identify soil contamination, as well as the ways in which particular contaminants impact soil, crop and human health.
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The extended phenotype: plants as shapers of microbial communities
It can be tempting to reduce the scope of our concern around crop plants to the harvestable yield of grain or biomass, but plants actually accomplish much more than this. Wider effects of crop plants on interacting organisms and on properties of the agroecosystem represent an extended phenotype t...
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Genetics and breeding for reduced methane emissions
Selective breeding in dairy cattle offers a cost-effective, permanent, and cumulative strategy to mitigate methane emissions. By incorporating methane traits into breeding objectives, reductions in methane production of approximately 1% per year can be achieved. This chapter discusses the integra...
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Achieving net zero dairy farming: weighing the options arising from new understanding
This concluding chapter to the book Achieving net zero dairy farming takes stock of the key insights provided by individual chapters in the book. It reviews the evidence relating to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and other pollutants, approaches to their mitigation, and the potential for ...
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Advances in measuring the water footprint of dairy farming
The water footprint (WF) is a comprehensive methodology used to estimate the total water consumption associated with the production of a product and serves as an important tool for assessing sustainability in the livestock sector. The WF indicates the water consumption per unit of product and con...
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Housing strategies to reduce the carbon footprint and improve animal welfare in dairy farming
This chapter focuses on the importance of housing strategies in dairy farming, and its impact on animal welfare and the carbon footprint. It begins by exploring the different types of dairy production systems, and then moves on to the effects of housing on productivity and emission intensity. The...
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Advances in understanding methane production in the dairy cow
Methane emissions from dairy cows are a process that represents an energy loss for the animal, prompting efforts to reduce methane emissions in dairy cows. Feed additives, particularly 3-NOP and Asparagopsis taxiformis, have shown promise, reducing CH₄ production by 20-40%. However, factors such ...
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Improving feed conversion efficiency in dairy cattle
Improving feed conversion ratio is important for advancing sustainability and warming neutrality goals of the dairy industry. Traditional nutritional and genetic technologies have advanced feed efficiency and productivity in the dairy industry over the past several decades, and the movement towar...
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Integrating dairy farming and crop production
This chapter explores the path to net zero dairy agriculture by emphasizing the multifunctionality of Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems (ICLS), accounting for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across farm boundaries, assessing the mitigation potential of farm vegetation, evaluating GHG mitigation te...
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Assessing greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farms
Interest has developed in knowing the net greenhouse gas (GHG) emission or carbon footprint of food production systems and to mitigate those emissions toward the goal of no effect on global warming. Quantifying and evaluating production system emissions requires a modeling approach. Models at var...
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Measuring methane emissions from dairy farms
Methane (CH₄) emissions from dairy farms significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, with enteric fermentation responsible for 90% of livestock-derived CH₄ emissions, while manure management accounts for about 41% of the CH₄ emissions. This paper explores various methods for measuring C...
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Development and use of methane-inhibiting feed supplements in dairy farming
This chapter explores feed supplements that inhibit enteric methane production. It begins by discussing opportunities to inhibit this through nutrition and then moves on to analyse methane-inhibiting feed supplements. Next, it focuses on the invention and discovery of methane mitigators. The chap...
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Sustainability, nutrient and energy flows in the dairy cow: an overview
This introductory chapter comes in two parts. It first sets out the rules of engagement: the complex set of interactions that determine the sustainability of dairy farming. The chapter starts with some basic elements/concepts involved in sustainability. It then provides a simple introduction to t...
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Manure management and processing
Manure management within the United States is considered one of the key hotspots of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Linked to the formation of gases like methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and ammonia, great attention must be paid to this portion of the dairy production chain in order to mit...
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Methane utilisation on dairy farms
On dairy farms, enteric fermentation in ruminants and the handling of manure and slurry cause unwanted greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In contrast, anaerobic digestion (AD) through engineered systems yields biogas or biomethane as a renewable energy with negative net GHG emissions. The production...
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Trends in herbicide resistance in north africa, middle east and west asia
Agriculture across North Africa, the Middle East, and West Asia faces challenges posed by diverse climatic conditions, varied cropping systems, and weed management issues. Staple crops such as wheat, barley, and rice, alongside vegetables and tree crops, form the backbone of regional agriculture....
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Fungicide resistance in southern europe
Despite efforts to reduce fungicide usage through Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and regulatory restrictions, fungicides remain essential to prevent crop losses. However, fungicide resistance has become a significant issue in Southern Europe, particularly impacting economically important crops ...
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Trends in fungicide resistance in latin america
Latin America plays an important part in producing and exporting a diverse crop range. Considering the diversities of climate and ways which the crops growth in this region, they can be affected by plant pathogenic fungi causing several diseases. A management strategy of these diseases is the use...
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Trends in herbicide resistance in southern europe
The evolution of herbicide resistant populations is a key issue in weed management and negatively affects the sustainability of a variety of annual and perennial cropping systems in southern Europe. This was determined by the excessive use of herbicides with specific biochemical targets and the l...
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Trends in insecticide resistance in north america
Insecticide resistance has been an issue in north American for over 100 years. Insecticide use has fluctuated across time, but modern chemistries and genetically modified crops have contributed to a reduction in overall synthetic insecticide use in some areas. The use of insecticides has led some...
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Trends in fungicide resistance in north-west europe
Agriculture is important and highly productive in North-West Europe with major crops including wheat, barley, potato, sugar beet, oilseed rape, apple and grapevine. The maritime climate of West Europe is very prone to fungal diseases that require the input of fungicides. Fungicide resistance has ...
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Trends in insecticide resistance in north-west europe
This chapter presents an update of trends on insecticide resistance in Northwest Europe. It addresses the current status and future estimations of the insecticide market in Europe, specifically in context of evolving agricultural practices and environmental challenges. The chapter then explores i...
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Trends in fungicide use and resistance in north america: the case of canadian wheat production systems
This chapter begins by reviewing general trends in fungicide use in North America. It discusses fungicide groups used in North America, factors affecting resistance patterns and how this has affected patterns of resistance across North America, with a particular focus on the situation in Canada. ...
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Improving biodiversity monitoring of agricultural landscapes
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the range of national and regional farmland biodiversity monitoring schemes, as well as developments in techniques used to collect and analyse data for more effective biodiversity monitoring.
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Advances in precision poultry farming technologies
The book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the use of precision livestock farming technologies in the poultry sector, focussing on technologies designed to monitor poultry behaviour and welfare, as well the wider farm environment.
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Enteric bacterial pathogens of pigs
This book provides a detailed overview of some of the key enteric bacterial pathogens of pigs, focussing specifically on Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Lawsonia intracellularis and Brachyspira. The book considers recent advances in understanding pathogen-host interactions, pathogen persistence and...
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Advances in apple breeding
This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in apple breeding, including developments in the use of genomics techniques and bioinformatic resources, as well as strategies to improve biotic and abiotic stress resistance.
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Developments in technologies for monitoring housing conditions for dairy and beef cattle
The global livestock sector plays a critical role in supporting food security and driving economic development, with dairy and beef cattle farming forming essential components of this system. Nevertheless, maximizing efficiency and sustainability in cattle farming demand careful management of hou...
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Instant insights: cover crops – volume 2
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the use of cover crops in agriculture, their influence on soil health and arthropod biodiversity, as well as best practices to increase cover crop adoption by farmers.
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Instant insights: biological control of pests and diseases in horticultural crops
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the use of biological control agents in horticultural production, focussing specifically on their application within orchards and vineyards.
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Instant insights: improving the health and welfare of ewes and lambs
This book provides a comprehensive overview of some of the key welfare issues affecting ewes and lambs and discusses the role of precision livestock farming (PLF) technologies in addressing these welfare concerns.
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The environmental sustainability of hemp: common metrics and a consideration of cultivation geography
This chapter explores the sustainability of hemp by examining prevalent metrics such as water use, nitrogen input, and pesticide requirements, and offers a new metric: cultivation geography. While hemp has been lauded for its lower water and nitrogen needs compared to other crops and its potentia...
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Advances in the use of hemp in livestock feed
This chapter focuses on the advances in the use of hemp in livestock feed. It discusses the current legal status of hemp use in livestock and poultry diets. It reviews existing research on the inclusion of hemp and its by-products in animal feed, focusing on their effects on animal health, perfor...
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Integrated disease management in hemp cultivation
This chapter reviews integrated disease management in hemp cultivation. It first provides an overview of basic concepts in plant pathology, then goes on to highlight key diseases of hemp, specifically focusing on diseases that affect seedlings and transplants, diseases that occur during the veget...
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Advances in understanding the nutrient and water requirements of hemp
Understanding the nutrient and water requirements of hemp is essential for optimizing its growth, yield, and quality. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge on the nutrient and water needs of hemp, highlighting recent research advances and identifying areas...
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Integrated pest management in hemp cultivation
Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) production has increased globally since the 1990s, presenting a need to identify pests in the crop. Many arthropods have been observed in hemp, but economic importance is unclear for many of them. Several pests are more concerning, including corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea...
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Taxonomy and classification of hemp
The taxonomy and classification of the genus Cannabis have been subjects of extensive debate, shaped by both traditional and modern approaches. This chapter reviews key methods, including biological, biochemical, legal, and genetic approaches, and examines how the expansion of the Cannabaceae fam...
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Building sustainable biobased manufacturing supply chains to help hemp reach its global economic potential
This chapter addresses an early view on the supply chain for industrial hemp (hemp) under the crop’s new global legalization. The chapter begins with a brief history of hemp supply chains and recent policy changes in the United States (U.S.) that legalized production and the development and comme...
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Weed management in hemp cultivation
Hemp is well known as an effective weed competitive plant due to its rapid growth and canopy closure. As result, weed control in hemp was frequently considered unnecessary for fiber production, particularly under high crop densities. However, recent studies indicate that effective weed management...
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Canada’s regulatory stance on industrial hemp production
This article examines Canada's complex legal and regulatory landscape surrounding cannabis, exploring the historical evolution of its use, its categorization into marijuana, hemp, and medical marijuana, and the licensing and legal frameworks governing each. The authors discuss how the complicated...
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Consumers and hemp: demand, trust, and sustainability
This chapter reviews the consumer demand for hemp-based products. It provides an overview of the process that involved the legalisation of hemp products which in turn, led to the need to understand potential consumer demand for these products. The chapter also includes a case study to support the...
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Current state of the art in outdoor cultivation of hemp (cannabis sativa l.)
This chapter provides a comprehensive and technically detailed overview of outdoor hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) cultivation, focusing on the agronomic principles, physiological traits, and regulatory landscapes that define successful production systems for fiber, grain, and cannabinoid/essential oil...
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