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RETURN SOIL [7 records]

Record 1 2025-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farming Techniques
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Soils (Agriculture)
  • Environment
CONT

The return of crop residues to the soil is a common agricultural management practice for nutrient recycling and carbon sequestration. It is known that nitrogen(N) fertilization can influence crop residue decomposition and nutrient release.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques agricoles
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Sols (Agriculture)
  • Environnement
CONT

Les sols se situant sous des niveaux acceptables de MOS [matière organique du sol] sont davantage sujets à des problèmes de dégradation (érosion, compaction, battance, déstructuration, etc.) et donc les apports en matières organiques et le retour des résidus de culture devraient être privilégiés pour rehausser leurs niveaux de MOS au lieu de les maintenir à des seuils inférieurs plus sujets à des problèmes de dégradation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnicas agrícolas
  • Producción vegetal
  • Suelos (Agricultura)
  • Medio ambiente
CONT

Mitigación del cambio climático mediante la reducción del consumo de combustibles fósiles y la implementación de mecanismos de secuestro de carbono (laboreo mínimo, devolución de residuos de cultivos al suelo, uso de cultivos de cobertura y rotaciones, integración de leguminosas fijadoras de nitrógeno).

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Record 2 2022-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glaciology
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

[A permanently frozen layer of soil] which, after having been thawed through natural or artificial causes, is able to return to [its permanent frozen state] under the present climate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Glaciologie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Laws and Legal Documents
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

... it cannot be said that to operate under an act of the provincial legislature validly enacted enabling producers to market the products of the soil by orderly methods and under such restrictions as will tend to insure a fair return, is to commit a criminal offence...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lois et documents juridiques
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

[...] on ne saurait prétendre que c'est une infraction criminelle ... que d'agir en vertu d'une loi que la législature provinciale a validement adoptée et qui permet aux producteurs de commercialiser de façon ordonnée les produits de la terre tout en leur imposant des restrictions qui leur assureront un rendement équitable [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 2007-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Management
CONT

Phytomanagement aims to reduce environmental risk by engineering the site's vegetation. Ideally, the selected vegetation should minimise contaminant mobility, while providing an economic return from the land. Soil amendments can promote plant growth and enhance trace-element immobilisation... Effective phytomanagement is site specific due to the plethora of environmental variables that affect plant growth and metal mobility.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion environnementale
DEF

[...] ensemble des méthodes permettant la gestion de sites et de sols industriels ou fortement anthrophisés [par l'intervention de l'homme] grâce à l'utilisation de végétaux dans une perspective de développement durable.

CONT

Prometteur sur le plan technique, économique et juridique [...] le phytomanagement [peut] inclure des fonctions très diverses, notamment d'aménagement, de production, d'environnement, de biodiversité et de dépollution. Le «phytomanagement» est prometteur sur le plan technique, économique et juridique.

Spanish

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Record 5 2006-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Government Programs (Non-Canadian)
  • Farm Management and Policy
OBS

[The] Agricultural Act of 1956--P. L. 84-540(May 28, 1956) created the Soil Bank Program... The Soil Bank Act authorized short-and long-term removal of land from production with annual rental payments to participants(Acreage Reserve Program and Conservation Reserve Program, respectively). The Acreage Reserve Program, for wheat, corn, rice, cotton, peanuts, and several types of tobacco, allowed producers to retire land on an annual basis in crop years 1956 through 1959 in return for payments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes gouvernementaux non canadiens
  • Gestion et politique agricole

Spanish

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Record 6 2002-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farming Techniques
  • Tillage Operations (Agriculture)
DEF

The ridge of soil resulting when a furrow slice is lapped over the first furrow slice when starting the plowing operations.

CONT

When a bottom(of a moldboard plow) turns the soil, throwing to one side a ribbon of soil that is called the furrow slice. When plowing is started in the middle of a strip of land, a furrow is plowed across the field; on the return trip, a furrow slice is lapped over the first slice. This leaves a slightly higher ridge than the second, third, and other slices. The ridge is called a back furrow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques agricoles
  • Travaux du sol (Agriculture)
DEF

Petite élévation rectiligne, constituée par les deux bandes de terre qu'une charrue, munie d'un seul corps de pièces travaillantes, retourne et appuie l'une contre l'autre en un aller et retour; la terre de l'axe de l'ados reste en place.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnicas agrícolas
  • Labores de cultivo (Agricultura)
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Record 7 1998-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seeding and Planting Equipment
  • Silviculture
DEF

In a planting machine, plates or other devices that close or return the soil round the plant roots; they are set behind the trencher.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de plantation et de semis
  • Sylviculture

Spanish

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