Alfalfa Management Guide

Alfalfa Management Guide
Author: D. J. Undersander
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Alfalfa
ISBN: 9780891181798

The Alfalfa Management Guide is designed especially for busy growers, with to-the-point recommendations, useful images of diseased plants and pests, and quick-reference tables and charts. Revised in 2011, this edition of Alfalfa Management Guide covers the latest strategies for alfalfa establishment, production, and harvest-soil testing, fertilizing, integrated pest management, rotation, and more.

Irrigated Alfalfa Management for Mediterranean and Desert Zones

Irrigated Alfalfa Management for Mediterranean and Desert Zones
Author: Charles Gebbes Summers
Publisher: UCANR Publications
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2008
Genre: Alfalfa
ISBN: 9781601076083

[A publication designed to provide detailed, scientifically-based comprehensive information about the growth, production, management, and utilization of alfalfa grown under irrigation].

Intermountain Alfalfa Management

Intermountain Alfalfa Management
Author: Steve B. Orloff
Publisher: UCANR Publications
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1997-06-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781879906242

This comprehensive guide for western alfalfa growers brings together the most current information and recommendations in nearly all areas of alfalfa management, including stand establishment, fertilization, irrigation, pest management, and harvesting

Nutrient Deficiencies of Field Crops

Nutrient Deficiencies of Field Crops
Author: Prakash Kumar
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2013-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1780642784

Nutrient imbalance in soils is an emerging threat to sustainable agriculture: intensive cultivation, use of poor quality groundwater, depletion of soil organic matter and excessive use of fertilizers are major reasons for poor soil fertility worldwide. This necessitates correct diagnosis of plant nutrient deficiencies to avoid further use of pesticides in cases where pests or pathogens that are not in fact the cause of poor crop health. Richly illustrated with 600 colour photographs, this book is a visual field identification guide for symptoms of most common nutrient deficiencies in field crops, covering all their stages of occurrence. Detailed descriptions and suggested for management practices are given with each entry.

Abiotic Disorders of Landscape Plants

Abiotic Disorders of Landscape Plants
Author: Laurence Raleigh Costello
Publisher: UCANR Publications
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2003
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1879906589

This manual contains a wealth of information to help you diagnose abiotic disorders in landscape plants – disorders caused by environmental, physiological or other nonbiological factors. You’ll learn how to diagnose injury symptoms from over 20 different abiotic agents including water deficit, nutrient deficiencies, salinity, pH, sunburn, air pollution, herbicide and other chemical phytotoxicities, mechanical injuries, lightning, wind, and hail. You’ll also learn how to develop a step-by-step diagnostic strategy. Included are strategies, techniques, and tools you can use in diagnosing plant problems, common injury symptoms and their abiotic causes, and plant traits that can resemble abiotic disorders. Illustrated with 319 color photographs and 38 tables, this book is a "must-have" for the library of every landscape professional.

The Herbal Encyclopedia

The Herbal Encyclopedia
Author: Lisa R. Waltz
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0595334253

The Herbal Encyclopedia: A Practical Guide to the Many Uses of Herbs is a valuable resource for those seeking more than the usual aspects of learning about our planet's valuable medicinal herbs. Besides medicinal information, included is also information regarding the spiritual uses, and growing information for those who wish to grow their own natural medicines. Compiled by a nationally certified Naturopathic Doctor, this guide is a valuable addition to any reference library. Want to learn how to feed your body naturally? Want to learn how to grow your own medicinal herbs? Want to learn ways to incorporate herbs into your worship? Want to learn how to get healthy and stay that way? Then this book is for you!

Compendium of Alfalfa Diseases

Compendium of Alfalfa Diseases
Author: Donald L. Stuteville
Publisher: American Phytopathological Society
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1990
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Infectious diseases. Diseases caused by bacteria and mycoplasmalike organisms. Diseases caused by fungi. Fungal diseases that principally occur on seeds and seedlings. Fungal diseases that principally occur on leaves and stems. Fungal diseases that principally occur on lower stems and crowns. Fungal diseases that principally occur on crowns and roots. Other fungi associated with alfalfa. Diseases caused by nematodes. Diseases caused by viruses and viruses infectious to alfalfa. Parasitic flowering plants. Noninfectious diseases. Diseases caused by biotic agents. Insect injuries. Diseases caused by abiotic agents. Guide to the identification of biotic diseases.