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Category : Field crops
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Field Crop Varieties in Montana
Author: Recommended Varieties of Farm Crops for Montana, 1947
Author: Arthur Edgerton SeamansPublisher:
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Category : Beef cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Registered Field Crop Varieties, 1926-1974
Author: Crop Science Society of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Lentil Underground
Author: Liz CarlislePublisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592409563
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"With a new foreword by Frederick L. Kirschenmann..."
Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. )
Author: Andy ClarkPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437903797
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
Grain and Oil Seed Crop Varieties for Montana
Author: Classified List of Projects Carried on by the Agricultural Experiment Stations
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Biological & Agricultural Index
Author: Amber Waves
Author: Catherine ZabinskiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022655595X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop. At breakfast tables and bakeries, we take for granted a grain that has made human civilization possible, a cereal whose humble origins belie its world-shaping power: wheat. Amber Waves tells the story of a group of grass species that first grew in scattered stands in the foothills of the Middle East until our ancestors discovered their value as a source of food. Over thousands of years, we moved their seeds to all but the polar regions of Earth, slowly cultivating what we now know as wheat, and in the process creating a world of cuisines that uses wheat seeds as a staple food. Wheat spread across the globe, but as ecologist Catherine Zabinski shows us, a biography of wheat is not only the story of how plants ensure their own success: from the earliest bread to the most mouthwatering pasta, it is also a story of human ingenuity in producing enough food for ourselves and our communities. Since the first harvest of the ancient grain, we have perfected our farming systems to grow massive quantities of food, producing one of our species’ global mega crops—but at a great cost to ecological systems. And despite our vast capacity to grow food, we face problems with undernourishment both close to home and around the world. Weaving together history, evolution, and ecology, Zabinski’s tale explores much more than the wild roots and rise of a now-ubiquitous grain: it illuminates our complex relationship with our crops, both how we have transformed the plant species we use as food, and how our society—our culture—has changed in response to the need to secure food sources. From the origins of agriculture to gluten sensitivities, from our first selection of the largest seeds from wheat’s wild progenitors to the sequencing of the wheat genome and genetic engineering, Amber Waves sheds new light on how we grow the food that sustains so much human life.
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