Plowman's Folly and A Second Look (Conservation Classics)

By Edward H. Faulkner

Book Overview

As the ruinous Dust Bowl settled in the early 1940s, agronomist Edward Faulkner dropped whatNaturemagazine termed "an agricultural bombshell" when he blamed the then universally used moldboard plow for disastrous pillage of the soil. Faulkner's assault on the orthodoxy of his day will stimulate today's farmers to seek out fresh solutions to the problems that plague modern American agriculture.Plowman's Follyis bound together here with its companion volumeA Second Look.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933280432
• ISBN13: 9780933280434
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.5"