Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping : Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm EPUB
by Seth Kroeck
Illustrated by Jocelyn Langer
Part of the Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series series
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Description
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 techniques
- Thinking 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.
Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Chelsea Green Publishing
- Publication Date:15/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781603583466
Information
-
Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Chelsea Green Publishing
- Publication Date:15/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781603583466
