Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Wonder Crops
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nurseries (Horticulture)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
Crops as Enhancers of Nutrient Use
Author: R DuncanPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0323145167
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Crops as Enhancers of Nutrient Use examines the various plant and soil factors that contribute to nutrient use efficiency of plants. It attempts to address policies regarding Low Input Sustainable Agriculture (LISA), conservation-oriented cropping systems, and reductions in environmental contaminants. It also presents longer-term remedies to some of the inherent problems of high volume applications of expensive fertilizer nutrients. This book emphasizes plant-soil interaction, particularly, nutritional interactions involving rhizosphere, microbes, and stress on the root system. Stress factors include moisture and low and high pH. The book also covers the genetic and physiological response of plant to nutrients at the cellular level, on a whole-plant basis, and when subjected to stress. This book will contribute to the development of a more cost-effective and judicious nutrient usage of major crops.
Labor Used to Produce Field Crops, Estimates by States
Author: Robert Cecil McElroyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Plant Disease Reporter
Author: Seeds of Hope
Author: Jane GoodallPublisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455554480
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a fascinating examination of the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a fascinating examination of the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. Seeds of Hope takes us from Goodall's home in England to her home-away-from-home in Africa, deep inside the Gombe forest, where she and the chimpanzees are enchanted by the fig and plum trees they encounter. She introduces us to botanists around the world, as well as places where hope for plants can be found, such as The Millennium Seed Bank. She shows us the secret world of plants with all their mysteries and potential for healing our bodies as well as Planet Earth. Looking at the world as an adventurer, scientist, and devotee of sustainable foods and gardening--and setting forth simple goals we can all take to protect the plants around us--Goodall delivers an enlightening story of the wonders we can find in our own backyards.
The Indiana Farmer
Author: Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way
Author: R. M. Kellogg Co.Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way" by R. M. Kellogg Co. was a useful agricultural guidebook specifically designed to help amateur gardeners learn how to successfully grow strawberries. Starting with a look at the Kellog company, the book then goes into a detailed explanation of how they manage to yield such reliably good berries, making sure to enlighten readers with every tip and trick they can muster.
Wonder Plants and Plant Wonders
Author: Alpheus Hyatt VerrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plants
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Season Of The Harvest (Harvest Trilogy, Book 1)
Author: Michael R. HicksPublisher: Michael R. Hicks
ISBN: 0984492763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
What if the genetically engineered crops that we increasingly depend on for food weren't really created by man? What if they brought a new, terrifying meaning to the old saying that "you are what you eat"?FBI Special Agent Jack Dawson investigates the gruesome murder of his best friend and fellow agent who had been pursuing a group of eco-terrorists. The group's leader, Naomi Perrault, is a beautiful geneticist who Jack believes conspired to kill his friend, and is claiming that a major international conglomerate developing genetically engineered crops is plotting a sinister transformation of our world that will lead humanity to extinction. As Jack is drawn into a quietly raging war that suddenly explodes onto the front pages of the news, he discovers that her claims may not be so outrageous after all. Together, the two of them must face a horror Jack could never have imagined, with the fate of all life on Earth hanging in the balance...