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  2. For farmers, watching and waiting is a spring planting ritual ...

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    Like many larger farms, she plants cover crops in fields that would otherwise be bare between planting season, along with no-till practices. That keeps organic matter in the soil, helping to ...

  3. Asclepias incarnata - Wikipedia

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    Asclepias incarnata, the swamp milkweed, rose milkweed, rose milkflower, swamp silkweed, or white Indian hemp, is a herbaceous perennial plant species native to North America. [3] [4] It grows in damp through wet soils and also is cultivated as a garden plant for its flowers, which attract butterflies and other pollinators with nectar.

  4. Sassafras (soil) - Wikipedia

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    The Sassafras soil series is one of the oldest in the United States and has great historical significance to modern-day soil science.It was recognized as Maryland's state soil in 1901 and is now identified as a Benchmark (a soil that has large extent in major resource areas) and Hall of Fame soil series, which is a recognition given to a soil series for having a critical role in the evolution ...

  5. Tilth - Wikipedia

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    Tilth is a physical condition of soil, especially in relation to its suitability for planting or growing a crop. Factors that determine tilth include the formation and stability of aggregated soil particles, moisture content, degree of aeration, soil biota, rate of water infiltration and drainage.

  6. Leaching (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    soil type and structure. For example, sandy soil holds little water while clay soils have high water-retention rates; the amount of water used by the plants/crops; how much nitrate is already present in the soil. [3] The level of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) in the Earth's atmosphere is increasing at a rate of 0.2 to 0.3% annually.

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  8. Agriculture in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    The first documented Africans were brought to Maryland in 1642, as 13 slaves at St. Mary's City, the first English settlement in the Province. [1] Slave labor made possible the export-driven plantation economy. The English observer William Strickland wrote of agriculture in Virginia and Maryland in the 1790s:

  9. Frost heaving - Wikipedia

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    Photograph taken 21 March 2010 in Norwich, Vermont. Frost heaving (or a frost heave) is an upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards the surface, upwards from the depth in the soil where freezing temperatures have penetrated into the soil (the freezing front or freezing boundary).