Farm Project Introduction Essay, Research Paper

With living on a farm, I had a lot of choice of what to do

for my geography project, though nothing interested me quite as much as the

factors the effect the rate of growth of a crop. Whilst looking around my farm

one afternoon I noticed a field that had a few different coloured soils down

the profile of it, I also noted that a crop had just recently been planted in

it, it turned out to be a crop of maize. This was an ideal crop on which to

base a project upon because each stage of growth can easily be seen because of

the great height of the maize plant. With there being different coloured soils in the

field I drew the assumption that there were different soil types within the

field and that a comparison could be made with the rate of growth of the maize

at each different soil type. I could then look at other factors that affect the

rate of growth such as measuring: 1.)

pH, 2.)

Infiltration rates, 3.)

Stone size, 4.)

Amount of stones, 5.)

Weights of the crop, 6.)

Number of cobs on the plants, 7.)

Weight of the cobs on the plants, 8.)

Moisture levels of the soil, 9.)

The gradient of the field, 10.)

The height of the crop through several stages of its growth, 11.)

The different soil horizons, 12.)

Amount of worms.????????? After each soil type boundary had

found, I would find these measurements for each different soil type and then

obtain a professional soil type analysis for each area and compare all of the

results for each measurement.