No-tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture

Klappentext This book is a much-expanded and updated edition of a previous volume, published in 1996 as "No-tillage Seeding: Science and Practice". The base objective remains to describe, in lay terms, a range of international experiments designed to examine the causes of successes and failures in no-tillage. The book summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of no tillage. It highlights the pros and cons of a range of features and options, without promoting any particular product.Topics added or covered in more detail in the second edition include: * soil carbon and how its retention or sequestration interacts with tillage and no-tillage* controlled traffic farming as an adjunct to no-tillage* comparison of the performance of generic no-tillage opener designs* the role of banding fertilizer in no-tillage* the economics of no-tillage* small-scale equipment used by poorer farmers* forage cropping by no-tillage* a method for risk assessment of different levels of machine sophistication

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• Authors: C. Baker, W. Chamen, Peter Hobbs, Scott Justice, Don Reicosky, Fatima Ribeiro, William Ritchie, Keith Saxton
• Publisher: External catalogues_UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2007
• EAN: 9781845931162
• ISBN: 978-1-84593-116-2
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 250 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology