The Alfalfa Management Guide is designed especially for busy growers, with to-the-point recommendations, useful images of diseased plants and pests, and quick-reference tables and charts. Revised in 2011, this edition of Alfalfa Management Guide covers the latest strategies for alfalfa establishment, production, and harvest-soil testing, fertilizing, integrated pest management, rotation, and more.
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.
This comprehensive guide for western alfalfa growers brings together the most current information and recommendations in nearly all areas of alfalfa management, including stand establishment, fertilization, irrigation, pest management, and harvesting
Forages: The Science of Grassland Agriculture, 7th Edition, Volume II will extensively evaluate the current knowledge and information on forage agriculture. Chapters written by leading researchers and authorities in grassland agriculture are aggregated under section themes, each one representing a major topic within grassland science and agriculture. This 7th edition will include two new additional chapters covering all aspects of forage physiology in three separate chapters, instead of one in previous editions. Chapters will be updated throughout to include new information that has developed since the last edition. This new edition of the classic reference serves as a comprehensive supplement to An Introduction to Grassland Agriculture, Volume I.
Seed production and marketing; Improving varieties by modern methods of breeding; The work of crop-improvement associations and cooperative seed distributing agencies; Special cultural preactices and equipment necessary in growing good seed; Growing and marketing seed corn; Producing small grains for seed; Producing seed of the clovers; Producing alfalfa seed; Kentucky bluegrass-seed production and marketing; The production of seed of timothy, redtop and other grasses; Cotton seed production; Growing and marketing seed potatoes; Producing seed of field beans, soybeans, cowpeas and vetch; Growing seed of cucumbers, melons, pumpkins and squashes; Growing seed of the crucifers (Cabbage, Cauliflower, Kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, kale, Collards, Turnip, Rutabaga, Radish, chinese cabbage, cress, horse radish and sea kale; Growing seed of solanaceous vegetables tomato, pepper, egg pant, husk tomato or ground cherry, wonderberry, tobacco; Growing seed of garden and canning beans and peas; Producing seeds of garden beet and sugar beets, swiss chard and spinach; Growing seed of carrots, parsnip, celery; parsley and other umbelliferous plants; Growing seed and sets of onion, leek, garlic, shallot, ciboul or welch onion, chives; Growing seed of lettuce, endive, chicory, salsify, artichoke; Growing seed of asparagus, okra, rhubarb; Where the nation's seed is produced.
