Clover crops

Wildflower honey should be used, not the clover or alfalfa honey readily available in grocery stores. Alfalfa and clover crops are heavily sprayed with pesticides and do not have the broad activity available in multiple-plant honeys. Furthermore, large commercial honey growers may often supplement their bees food with sugar water, which dilutes the honey s power. 

Since about 1968, triple superphosphate has been far outdistanced by diammonium phosphate as the principal phosphate fertilizer, both in the United States and worldwide. However, production of triple superphosphate is expected to persist at a moderate level for two reasons (/) at the location of a phosphoric acid—diammonium phosphate complex, production of triple superphosphate is a convenient way of using sludge acid that is too impure for diammonium phosphate production and (2) the absence of nitrogen in triple superphosphate makes it the preferred source of phosphoms for the no-nitrogen bulk-blend fertilizers that frequendy are prescribed for leguminous crops such as soy beans, alfalfa, and clover. 

The limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantitation (LOQ) were statistically determined in alfalfa and clover raw agricultural commodities (rotational crops). The method LOD and LOQ for the EMA-producing metabolite were 0.004 and 0.012 mg kg respectively, and the LOD and LOQ for the HEMA-producing metabolite were 0.004 and 0.014mgkg respectively, for the alfalfa and clover... 

Winter barley is an ideal entry for oilseed rape because the earlier harvest allows early drilling of rape. It has been shown on organic farms that building up fertility by using a green manure crop, such as red clover, has paid off financially, with the subsequent boost in yield of the following cereal crop. 

The answer to the absence of fast-acting nitrogen fertilisers, with arable crops and grassland, has been threefold first, to make much greater use of farmyard manure, and to make sure that it is properly stored and not allowed either to be washed down the drains or to volatilise into the air second, to make much greater use of the legume for its power of nitrogen fixation, particularly white and red clover... 

More than 20% of insects are pollinators. Bees alone pollinate more than 50 agricultural crops [111]. When fully pollinated, fruit and berry plants grow 30-40% more, and melons and squash twice as much, or more. Bees increase harvest size 3-4 times in feed grass like alfalfa, red clover, and vetch [111]. However, the number of bees and other plant pollinators sharply and universally decreased in regions of the USSR where chemicals were used in agriculture in the middle of the 1980s. Because of this decrease, harvest size of some plants has noticeably decreased (for example, buckwheat and melons). 

Like alfalfa, the clover family (Trifolium spp.) consists of perennial legume plants that fix their own nitrogen. However, they suffer several limitations as general production crops for molecular farming, such as restricted perenniality, low protein content and the presence of high levels of condensed tannins which interfere with protein extraction. Despite these disadvantages, clovers are forage crops and are there-... 

Stevenson PC, Anderson JC, Blaney WM, Simmonds MSJ (1993) Developmental inhibition of Spodoptera litura (Fab.) larvae by a novel caffeoylquinic acid from the wild groundnut, Arachis paraguariensis. J Chem Ecol 19 2917-2933 Stockdale EA, Shepherd MA, Fortune S, Cuttle SP (2002) Soil fertility in organic farming systems - fundamentally different Soil Use Manage 18 301-308 Sturz AV, Christie BR, Matheson BG (1998) Associations of bacterial endophyte populations from red clover and potato crops with potential for beneficial allelopathy. Can J Microbiol 44 162-167... 

Liebman M, Sundberg DN (2006) Seed mass affects the susceptibility of weed and crop species to phytotoxins extracted from red clover shoots. Weed Sci 54 340-345 Lin D, Sugitomo Y, Dong Y, Terao H, Matsuo M (2006) Natural herbicidal potential of sauru-raceae (Houttuynia cordata Thunb.) dried powders on paddy weeds in transplanted rice. Crop Prot 25 1126-1129... 

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