The mature tree can rob the sapling of necessary sunlight and, if the mature tree is very large, it can take up rainwater and deplete soil nutrients.
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The Ellicott brothers helped revolutionize farming in the area by persuading farmers to plant wheat instead of tobacco and also by introducing fertilizer to revitalize depleted soil.
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They helped revolutionize farming in the area by persuading farmers to plant wheat instead of tobacco and also by introducing Plaster of Paris fertilizer to revitalize depleted soil.
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Today, most of the several hundred thousand colonists who marched into Ecuador's Oriente, as the Amazon region is known, scratch a meager living from an increasingly depleted soil.
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At the same time, French farms have had 2 percent to 30 percent of normal rainfall, causing plants to deplete soil moisture, said Weather Services meteorologist Joel Burgio.
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Tayloe s son, William Henry, took over Mount Airy in 1828, and its slave population continued to increase, even as depleted soil led to crop shortfalls and declining profits.
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Whereas annuals such as corn tend to deplete soil organic matter and require inputs, a perennial grain such as intermediate wheatgrass can yield crops while building soil organic matter.
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The combined effects of growing population densities, large-scale industrial logging, slash-and-burn agriculture and ranching, and other factors, have in some places depleted soils through rapid and almost total nutrient removal.
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Even though many growing regions took a soaking Wednesday, market watchers said the dry weather pattern that has depleted soil moisture in recent months would continue, leaving moisture levels below normal.
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The oaks were replaced by birch; but fern, bracken and broom invaded the depleted soils, and the aristocratic owners were replaced by local bourgeois who saw the woodlands as a resource.
