Conservation Tillage - Bibliography
Conservation Tillage - Bibliography

Author: Jane P. Gates

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1994-12

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 078811445X

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338 citations with abstracts covering tillage, mulch, chisel, conservation, sod, ridge, etc. plus author and subject indexes.

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.

Conservation Agriculture
Conservation Agriculture

Author: Muhammad Farooq

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-03

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 3319116207

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Conservation agriculture—consisting of four components including permanent soil cover, minimum soil disturbance, diversified crop rotations and integrated weed management—is considered the principal pathway to sustainable agriculture and the conservation of natural resources and the environment. Leading researchers in the field describe the basic principles of conservation agriculture, and synthesize recent advances and developments in conservation agriculture research. This book is a ready reference on conservation agriculture and reinforces the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. The book describes various elements of conservation agriculture; highlights the associated breeding and modeling efforts; analyses the experiences and challenges in conservation agriculture in different regions of the world; and proposes some pragmatic options and new areas of research in this very important area of agriculture.

Bibliography on Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation
Bibliography on Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation

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Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13:

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This bibliography is a list of references to published material on soil erosion and soil and water conservation. Some of these references may not appear to deal directly with erosion or conservation, but they have a pertinent relationship to some phase of the subject.