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Author: Neal Kinsey
Publisher: Acres USA
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781601730404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together organics and conventional farming. It discusses fertilisers, how to balance soil nutrients, and the proper use of manures, compost, tillage, and micronutrients.
Author: Neal Kinsey
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780911311952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe soil is more than just a substrate that anchors crops in place. An ecologically balanced soil system is essential for maintaining healthy crops. Hands-On Agronomy is a comprehensive manual on soil management. Neal Kinsey shows how working with the soil produces healthier crops with a higher yield. The "whats and whys" of micronutrients, soil drainage, tilth, soil structure and organic matter are explained in detail. Kinsey is the foremost practitioner and consultant on Albrecht-style fertility balancing worldwide and he has spent the past decade teaching his renowned soil science seminars from this book, offering true hands-on advice that consultants charge thousands for every day. In this extensively revised and updated edition, Kinsey has drawn on his experience with thousands of students to clarify and expand on the lessons taught therein, making Hands-On Agronomy more accessible - and informative - than ever.
Author: Dan Skow
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Shepard
Publisher: Acres U.S.A., Incorporated
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781601730350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround the globe most people get their calories from "annual" agriculture - plants that grow fast for one season, produce lots of seeds, then die. Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel and many other needs - in your own backyard, farm or ranch. This book, based on real-world practices, presents an alternative to the agriculture system of eradication and offers exciting hope for our future.
Author: Jeffrey Moyer
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781601730176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrganic No-Till Farming offers a map to an organic farming system that limits tillage, reduces labor, and improves soil structure. Based on the latest research by pioneering agriculturists, this book offers new technologies and tools based on sound biological principles, making it possible to reduce and even eliminate tillage.
Author: Bill McKibben
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Published: 2021
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781601731647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether you're a serious home gardener or a full-time farmer, A Growers Guide for Balancing Soils will help you expand your understanding of the science behind plant nutrition. It all starts with the soil, but, as you'll read, just spreading compost and hoping for the best isn't a strategy for success. Drawing on 40 years of experience using the Albrecht philosophy of balancing soils, William McKibben will walk you through a data-driven, time-tested process that starts with soil analysis, but doesn't stop there. Productive soil that has the right balance of bio-available minerals and maximizes crop production and quality is the goal, and McKibben outlines a common-sense approach for how to get there.For example, readers will learn how to:? build a more complete soil-health management system;? balance pH consistently across your fields with mineral balancing;? create more resilient crops by knowing how soil health affects disease and pest pressure;? and convert raw testing data into real action. For both organic and conventional farmers, A Growers Guide for Balancing Soils dives deep into how macro-nutrients such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and sulfur - along with potassium and micronutrients (cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, nickel, and zinc) - affect the development of healthy crops. It's a problem-solver's handbook for building soil health.
Author: Alabaster Jenkins
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Published: 2016-06-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781682860373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgronomy is an important field of study in the discipline of agricultural science that primarily deals with crop production and soil management for food, fuel and other useful products. The aim of this book is to provide an understanding of the multiple aspects of agronomy with the help of concepts such as sustainable agriculture, crop rotation, plant breeding and genetics, use of fertilizers, crop yield, etc. This book, with its detailed analyses and data, will prove immensely beneficial to professionals and students engaged in this field at various levels.
Author: Michael Astera
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Published: 2015-11-19
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ISBN-13: 9780984487691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow to read a soil test and balance soil minerals for healthy soils, plants, animals, and poeple.
Author: William Albrecht
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Published: 2011-06-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781601730299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn volume 7 Prof. Albrecht reveals the importance of the balance equation, that it isn¿t enough to have nutrient to soil connections, it is the ratio of one element to another that counts. Albrecht¿s insight further reveals that an ounce of prevention in the form of balanced plant nutrition from fertile soils is better than a pound of cure using dangerous poisons.
Author: Gerry Gillespie
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Published: 2019-10-16
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781601731562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this book, writer, researcher and advocate Gerry Gillespie outlines how we can create a global solution, and it starts between our ears. In order to restore our world ecosystems and our vital soils, he wants to change how we think about our trash. Readers will learn why we all need to change our mind about waste management systems, how to reconnect our organic waste to local soil and food growers, and why this leads to more local jobs. With chapters about source separation, soil management and climate change, and practical approaches to zero waste, Gillespie presents a practical, logical argument for one way to save the world and grow a local economy. In economic and environmental terms, clearly explains how, if waste were collected as source-separated products, more than half of it could be returned to soils as quality compost and biological products. A very large percentage of the remainder can be put back through recycling, re-manufacturing and reusing. And it’s not just theoretical. Gillespie details how this reduction of waste is already being achieved in parts of the world and how we could do it globally ... if we could only think differently."--Back cover.
