Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. )
Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. )

Author: Andy Clark

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2008-07

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1437903797

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Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.

Bread Wheat
Bread Wheat

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13:

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Wheat is the most widely grown cereal crop in the world, with an ever increasing demand. It plays a fundamental role in food security, and a major challenge is to meet the additional requirements with new cultivars and improved cropping technologies. This book covers information from a number of international experts on the current status of research on wheat improvement and production (wheat breeding programs and genetics), as well as on other aspects (including wheat diseases), from its evolutionary origins to seed production technologies. [from the FAO website]

Wheat Growing in the Southeastern States
Wheat Growing in the Southeastern States

Author: William White (USDA-Bureau of Dairy Industry)

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13:

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"Oats rank next to corn and wheat in crop acreage and value in the United States. But notwithstanding this, less attention has been given to the production of oats than to any other important grain so that yields often have been unsatisfactory and the crop sometimes unprofitable. The essentials for success in oat production are -- Well-prepared land that is retentive of moisture and fairly fertile ; Good seed of suitable varieties, thoroughly cleaned and graded and treated for smut ; Early seeding with a grain drill ; The harvesting of the crop at the proper time ; Careful shocking and stacking so as to preserve the crop from injury by weathering ; Clean thrashing. Directions for making the growing of oats more generally profitable are given in the following pages." -- p. [2]

Breeding Crop Plants
Breeding Crop Plants

Author: Herbert Kendall Hayes

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13:

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The founders of the art of plant breeding; The relation of certain biologie principles to plant breeding; The value of crop improvement in relation to a more efficient agriculture; Plant genetics; Biometrical methods; Field-plot technic; Soil heterogeneity; Climatic variations; Summary of field-plot technic; The mode of reproduction in relation to breeding; Naturally self-pollinated plants; Often cross-pollinated plants; Naturally cross-pollinated plants; Controlling pollination; Some results of selection with self-fertilized crops; Some results of crossing as a means of improving self-fertilized crops; Methods of breeding small grains; Classification and inheritance in wheat; Classification and inheritance of small grains other than wheat; Cowpeas, soybeans, and velvet beans; Flax and tobacco; Cotton and sorghum; Inheritance in maize; Maize breeding; Grasses, clover, and alfalfa; Potato improvement; Breedng of vegetables; Fruit breeding; Farmers methods of producing pure seeds.