No Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781845931162)

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

Author: C. Baker,Scott Justice,Keith Saxton
ISBN-10: 1845931165
ISBN-13: 9781845931162
Publisher: Cab International
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2006
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.80w x 1.00d