No Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture

Ritchie W.R. Saxton K.E. Baker C.J.

ISBN 10: 1845931165 / ISBN 13: 9781845931162

Published by CABI Publishing, 2006

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pp. 352 Figures, Illus.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture
• Publisher: CABI Publishing
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845931165
• ISBN 13: 9781845931162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

C. J. Baker, Centre for International No-tillage Research and Engineering. K. E. Saxton, formerly of USDA, ARS. W. R. Ritchie, Centre for International No-tillage Research and Engineering.