practices and systems

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• - Discusses the uses and benefits of having small areas or strips of land in permanent vegetation, designed to intercept pollutants, prevent soil erosion and manage other environmental concerns.
  
• - Information on how an arid area of land is made productive, using inter-cropping and organic farming practices.
  
• - Discussion of the likely effects of global warning on US agriculture.
  
• - Links to research projects about implementing site-specific management systems on farms.
  
• - Describes the old practice of harvesting hay in rural Montana using a beaverslide, sickle mowers, side-rakes, and buck rakes.
  
• - Provides farmers and industry with crop information and freeware, from the Manitoba Crop Insurance database.
  
• - Collection of articles with facts, information, and techniques for those starting on small scale farming.
  
• - Describes the establishment of the legume Mucuna bracteata under Oil Palm in Malaysia.
  
• - A forum for information, information exchange and development in integrated farming in Europe.