Editing Green manure (section)

{{short description|Organic material left on an agricultural field to be used as a mulch or soil amendment}}
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| title            = Green manure plants 
| image            = [[File:Green manure crop - geograph.org.uk - 494809.jpg|200px|alt=image of different plants commonly used for green manure crops]]
| caption          = A field of [[clover]], a green manure crop
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In [[agriculture]], a '''green manure''' is a crop specifically cultivated to be incorporated into the soil while still green.<ref name="Pieters-1927">{{Cite book|last=Pieters|first=Adrian J|title=Green Manuring|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, NY|year=1927|url=http://sustainablefarmer.net/pdflibrary/library-greenmanuring.pdf|access-date=2021-09-24|archive-date=2012-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202134500/http://sustainablefarmer.net/pdflibrary/library-greenmanuring.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>  Typically, the green manure's [[Biomass (ecology)|biomass]] is incorporated with a plow or disk, as is often done with (brown) [[manure]]. The primary goal is to add [[Soil organic matter|organic matter]] to the soil for its benefits. Green manuring is often used with [[legume]] crops to add nitrogen to the soil for following crops, especially in [[organic farming]], but is also used in [[Intensive farming|conventional farming]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Larkin|first1=Robert P.|last2=Honeycutt|first2=C. Wayne|last3=Olanya|first3=O. Modesto|date=2011-05-01|title=Management of Verticillium Wilt of Potato with Disease-Suppressive Green Manures and as Affected by Previous Cropping History|journal=Plant Disease|volume=95|issue=5|pages=568–576|doi=10.1094/PDIS-09-10-0670|pmid=30731947 |issn=0191-2917|doi-access=}}</ref>