Management of Tennessee soils

Soil management involves the use of proven practices which aid in the maintenance and improvement of soil fertility and crop yields. There is a distinction between soil management and farm management. Farm management includes the handling, manipulation and integration of all the farm enterprises. Thus crop management, pasture management, and livestock management as well as soil management are a part of the problems involved in managing a farm. Certain practices such as tillage and fertilization may be considered as both crop management practices and soil management practices.