Agriculture Handbook

Agriculture Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1949
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Set includes revised editions of some issues.

Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. )

Managing Cover Crops Profitably (3rd Ed. )
Author: Andy Clark
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1437903797

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.

Grassland Seeds

Grassland Seeds
Author: William Archie Wheeler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 770
Release: 1957
Genre: Forage plants
ISBN:

Grassland seeds; Seed formation and germination; Good stands from good seed; Testing field seeds; Insect pollination of legumes; Insects injurious to forage seeds; Desease problems in forage crop seed production; Treatment of forage seeds for disease control; Legume seed inoculation; Seed production of grassland crops; Harvesting and threshing forage seed; Processing field seeds; Drying and storing field seeds; Certification of field seeds and foundation seed program; Marketing forage seeds; International trade in field seeds; Estimating field seed crops; Evolution of the field seed industry; Special crops: Alfalfa; True clovers; Soybeans, cowpeas, and velvetbeans; Sweetclovers, vetches, trefoil, and field peas; Timothy, orchardgrass, smooth bromegrass, tall fescue, and meadow fescue; Other northern grasses; Wheatgrasses and wildrye; Western grasses; Southern grasses; Great plains grasses; Sorghums, broomcorn, sudangrass, johnsongrass and millets. Appendix: Glossary of terms; Forage crop seed information; Field seed statistics; Screen suggestions for clearing field seeds; Trade rules of the A,erican Seed Trade Association; Seed Certificatiion Standards; Seed Marketing Conference of 1926; Statement of Responsibilities and Policies Relating to Seed; Seed Improvement - Looking achead.