The Drought-Resilient Farm

Improve Your Soil’s Ability to Hold and Supply Moisture for Plants; Maintain Feed and Drinking Water for Livestock when Rainfall Is Limited; Redesign Agricultural Systems to Fit Semi-arid Climates

Dale Strickler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2018
Storey Publishing LLC (Verlag)
9781635860023 (ISBN)

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This in-depth practical guide shows farmers, ranchers, and gardeners how to reduce the impact of less-than-optimal rainfall on crops and livestock with innovative, yet simple techniques for enhancing the water retention of soil and developing a drought management plan.

Rainfall levels are rarely optimal, but there are hundreds of things you can do to efficiently conserve and use the water you do have and to reduce the impact of drought on your soil, crops, livestock, and farm or ranch ecosystem. Author Dale Strickler introduces you to the same innovative systems he used to transform his own drought-stricken family farm in Kansas into a thriving, water-wise, and profitable enterprise, maximizing healthy cropland, pasture, and water supply. Ranging from simple, short-term projects such as installing rain-collection ollas to long-term land-management planning strategies, Strickler’s methods show how to get more water into the soil, keep it in the soil, and help plants and livestock access it.

Dale Strickler is the author of Managing Pasture and The Drought-Resilient Farm. He is a leader in the soil health movement and an agronomist for Green Cover Seed, the nation’s top cover crop-specific seed company. Strickler holds degrees in agronomy from Kansas State University and has taught at the college level for 15 years. He farms and ranches cattle in Kansas.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	Full-color; photographs and il
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 226 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Wirtschaft
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-13	9781635860023 / 9781635860023
Zustand	Neuware