Building resilience into sitka spruce (picea sitchensis (bong.) carr.) forests in scotland in response to the threat of climate change... The predicted windier climate will require a range of management inputs, such as early cutting of extraction racks and early selective thinning, to improve stability....
Management of potato leafhopper, empoasca fabae (homoptera: cicadellidae), on alfalfa with the aid of systems analysis... During development of the thresholds we tested a variety of control tactics, including timing of harvests, We found that, for adult immigrants on the second crop, the economic thresholds increase exponentially as stem height increases, Tactics associated with these thresholds included insecticide treatments and early cutting of the second harvest....
Modelling populations of the stalk-borer eldana saccharina, based on the conditions of sugar cane as a host... Early cutting is one of a number of methods being used to reduce losses due to E....
Balancing yield, quality and persistence... Achieving maximum returns involves a difficult balancing act weighing the benefits of early cutting for forage quality against the negative effects of early cutting on total yield and stand persistence....
