muck soil


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muck

1. An organic soil of very soft consistency; also called muck soil.
2. Material to be excavated; clay, dirt, loam, stone, etc.
3. The material so excavated.
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This latter rate was selected by the manufacturer (Gowan Company, Yuma, AZ) as a feasible rate for testing against the wireworms in sugarcane under muck soil conditions.
Repellency of the biopesticide, azadirachtin, to wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Most (75%) sugarcane in Florida is grown on histosols (referred to as muck soils), while the remainder is grown in a mixture of spodosols, alfisols, and entisols (referred to as sandy soils) that are typical of the flatwoods of central and southern Florida.
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Five sugarcane fields on muck soils in Cherry: Wireworm Population Dynamics 427 southern Florida were sampled.
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Richness -0.1003 -0.8035 *# Muck Soils 1.5040 Loam Soils 3.0702 *# Tree Spp.
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Next to muck soils, loam soils are most desirable as growing media.
Chapter 20: Forage grasses and sod
The presence of thick muck soils is the major contributing factor to the high productivity of the soil.
Status of the organic soils in the Scioto Marsh, Hardin County, Ohio (1)
Muck soils are nitrogen-rich, but are generally low in phosphorus and potassium.
Chapter 6: Organic matter
"Muck soils," which are mostly OM, were excluded from the study as these soils are thought to have a market of their own.
Implicit prices for resource quality investments in Quebec's agricultural land market
(One exception is muck soils, where nearly all the solid matter is made up of organic materials.
The soul of soil

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