Book Description
This book brings together organics and conventional farming. It discusses fertilisers, how to balance soil nutrients, and the proper use of manures, compost, tillage, and micronutrients.
Author : Neal Kinsey
Publisher : Acres USA
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781601730404
This book brings together organics and conventional farming. It discusses fertilisers, how to balance soil nutrients, and the proper use of manures, compost, tillage, and micronutrients.
Author : Neal Kinsey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Agronomy
ISBN : 9780911311952
The soil is more than just a substrate that anchors crops in place. An ecologically balanced soil system is essential for maintaining healthy crops. Hands-On Agronomy is a comprehensive manual on soil management. Neal Kinsey shows how working with the soil produces healthier crops with a higher yield. The "whats and whys" of micronutrients, soil drainage, tilth, soil structure and organic matter are explained in detail. Kinsey is the foremost practitioner and consultant on Albrecht-style fertility balancing worldwide and he has spent the past decade teaching his renowned soil science seminars from this book, offering true hands-on advice that consultants charge thousands for every day. In this extensively revised and updated edition, Kinsey has drawn on his experience with thousands of students to clarify and expand on the lessons taught therein, making Hands-On Agronomy more accessible - and informative - than ever.
Author : Mark Shepard
Publisher : Acres U.S.A., Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : 9781601730350
Around the globe most people get their calories from "annual" agriculture - plants that grow fast for one season, produce lots of seeds, then die. Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel and many other needs - in your own backyard, farm or ranch. This book, based on real-world practices, presents an alternative to the agriculture system of eradication and offers exciting hope for our future.
Author : Dan Skow
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Neal Kinsey
Publisher : Acres U.S.A.
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Neal Kinsey draws on his wide range of experience as a master consultant to deliver valuable knowledge in an entertaining, anecdotal style. Growers willing to learn from Kinsey will come to truly understand soil fertility -- and not just from a theoretical point of view, but in a practical, "hands-on" manner that can be put to use in the field.
Author : Doug Fine
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1603585435
Looks at the economic, environmental, and practical potential that the hemp plant offers, looking at how its renewed cultivation could stand to benefit the country.
Author : Jeffrey Moyer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Agricultural machinery
ISBN : 9781601730176
Organic No-Till Farming offers a map to an organic farming system that limits tillage, reduces labor, and improves soil structure. Based on the latest research by pioneering agriculturists, this book offers new technologies and tools based on sound biological principles, making it possible to reduce and even eliminate tillage.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309452058
Between 1973 and 2016, the ways to manipulate DNA to endow new characteristics in an organism (that is, biotechnology) have advanced, enabling the development of products that were not previously possible. What will the likely future products of biotechnology be over the next 5â€"10 years? What scientific capabilities, tools, and/or expertise may be needed by the regulatory agencies to ensure they make efficient and sound evaluations of the likely future products of biotechnology? Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology analyzes the future landscape of biotechnology products and seeks to inform forthcoming policy making. This report identifies potential new risks and frameworks for risk assessment and areas in which the risks or lack of risks relating to the products of biotechnology are well understood.
Author : Bill McKibben
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9781601731647
Whether you're a serious home gardener or a full-time farmer, A Growers Guide for Balancing Soils will help you expand your understanding of the science behind plant nutrition. It all starts with the soil, but, as you'll read, just spreading compost and hoping for the best isn't a strategy for success. Drawing on 40 years of experience using the Albrecht philosophy of balancing soils, William McKibben will walk you through a data-driven, time-tested process that starts with soil analysis, but doesn't stop there. Productive soil that has the right balance of bio-available minerals and maximizes crop production and quality is the goal, and McKibben outlines a common-sense approach for how to get there.For example, readers will learn how to:? build a more complete soil-health management system;? balance pH consistently across your fields with mineral balancing;? create more resilient crops by knowing how soil health affects disease and pest pressure;? and convert raw testing data into real action. For both organic and conventional farmers, A Growers Guide for Balancing Soils dives deep into how macro-nutrients such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and sulfur - along with potassium and micronutrients (cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, nickel, and zinc) - affect the development of healthy crops. It's a problem-solver's handbook for building soil health.
Author : Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1782503390
This wonderful little book covers everything you need to know about the types of plants known as weeds. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer discusses the different varieties of weeds, how they grow and what they can tell us about soil health. The process of combatting weeds is discussed in principle as well as in practice, so that it can be applied to any situation. First written in the 1950s, this is still one of the best overviews of the subject available.