No Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture

By C.J. Baker

This book is a much-expanded and updated edition of a previous volume, published in 1996 as "No-tillage Seeding: Science and Practice". The base objective remains to describe, in lay terms, a range of international experiments designed to examine the causes of successes and failures in no-tillage. The book summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of no tillage. It highlights the pros and cons of a range of features and options, without promoting any particular product.Topics added or covered in more detail in the second edition include: * soil carbon and how its retention or sequestration interacts with tillage and no-tillage* controlled traffic farming as an adjunct to no-tillage* comparison of the performance of generic no-tillage opener designs* the role of banding fertilizer in no-tillage* the economics of no-tillage* small-scale equipment used by poorer farmers* forage cropping by no-tillage* a method for risk assessment of different levels of machine sophistication

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845931165
• ISBN13: 9781845931162
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cab International
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.7"