Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping (eBook)

Seth Kroeck (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011 | Revised and updated edition
96 Seiten
Chelsea Green Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60358-346-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping, you can learn some of the thinking behind-and the actual nuts and bolts of-laying out a rotation for your farm. This volume, part of the NOFA guides, covers:Historical roots of cover-crop techniquesThinking beyond this season's cash crop (disease and pest reduction, weed suppression, cash vs. cover crops)What is a good rotation? (mapping the farm, grouping crops, sample groupings)The economics of rotations and cover cropping (organizing your work, reducing labor inputs, land and cover-crop seed costs)Including on-farm examples and detailed appendices.

Inhalt

1. Historical roots

2. Thinking beyond this season's cash crop

3. What is a good rotation?

4. The economics of rotations and cover cropping

5. Two on-farm examples

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Reihe/Serie: Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series
• Illustrationen: Jocelyn Langer
• Zusatzinfo: Black and white line drawings
• Verlagsort: White River Junction
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • crop families • crop-rotation techniques • crops • farming • farming in New England • Farms • horticultural practices • Nofa • organic • organic farm management • successful organic farms • vegetable gardening • vegetables
• ISBN-10: 1-60358-346-7 / 1603583467
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-346-6 / 9781603583466