No Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture

C. Baker (Centre for International No-tillage Research and Engineering, New Zealand),Scott Justice (National Agriculture and Environment Forum, Nepal),Keith Saxton (formerly of USDA, ARS),Peter Hobbs (Cornell University, USA),William Ritchie (CINTRE)

No Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture
Format
Hardback
Publisher
CABI Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 November 2006
Pages
352
ISBN
9781845931162

No Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture

C. Baker (Centre for International No-tillage Research and Engineering, New Zealand),Scott Justice (National Agriculture and Environment Forum, Nepal),Keith Saxton (formerly of USDA, ARS),Peter Hobbs (Cornell University, USA),William Ritchie (CINTRE)

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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