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Evaluation Of Foldable Tractor Roll-Over Protective Structures (Rops) Clearance, Luke Martin
Evaluation Of Foldable Tractor Roll-Over Protective Structures (Rops) Clearance, Luke Martin
Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee
Tractor rollovers are a leading cause of death in the agricultural industry. While rollovers continue to happen, Roll-Over Protective Structures (ROPS) have shown great ability to prevent or reduce the casualties and injuries associated with rollover events. One authority on the subject even goes so far as to claim that “that fatality rates due to tractor overturns could be reduced by a minimum of 71% if all tractors in the U.S. were equipped with ROPS,” (NIOSH, 2009). The potential of this promising statistic has been devalued slightly due to the misapplication of foldable ROPS by leaving the ROPS in the …
Bowen Ratio Energy Balance Measurement Of Carbon Dioxide (Co2) Fluxes Of No-Till And Conventional Tillage Agriculture In Lesotho, Debra Blumberg O'Dell, Thomas J. Sauer, Bruce B. Hicks, Dayton M. Lambert, David R. Smith, Wendy Bruns, August Basson, Makoala V. Marake, Forbes Walker, Michael D. Wilcox Jr., Neal Samuel Eash
Bowen Ratio Energy Balance Measurement Of Carbon Dioxide (Co2) Fluxes Of No-Till And Conventional Tillage Agriculture In Lesotho, Debra Blumberg O'Dell, Thomas J. Sauer, Bruce B. Hicks, Dayton M. Lambert, David R. Smith, Wendy Bruns, August Basson, Makoala V. Marake, Forbes Walker, Michael D. Wilcox Jr., Neal Samuel Eash
Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science Publications and Other Works
Global food demand requires that soils be used intensively for agriculture, but how these soils are managed greatly impacts soil fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2). Soil management practices can cause carbon to be either sequestered or emitted, with corresponding uncertain influence on atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The situation is further complicated by the lack of CO2 flux measurements for African subsistence farms. For widespread application in remote areas, a simple experimental methodology is desired. As a first step, the present study investigated the use of Bowen Ratio Energy Balance (BREB) instrumentation to measure the energy balance and …