Overview

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

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Author:   C. Baker (Centre for International No-tillage Research and Engineering, New Zealand) ,  Scott Justice (National Agriculture and Environment Forum, Nepal) ,  Keith Saxton (formerly of USDA, ARS) ,  Peter Hobbs (Cornell University, USA)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.934kg
ISBN:  

9781845931162

ISBN 10:   1845931165
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   30 November 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

1: The 'What' and 'Why' of no-tillage farming, C J Baker and K E Saxton2: The benefits of no-tillage, D R Reicosky and K E Saxton3: The nature of risk in no-tillage, C J Baker, W (Bill) R Ritchie and K E Saxton4: Seeding openers and slot shape, C J Baker5: The role of slot cover, C J Baker6: Drilling into dry soils, C J Baker7: Drilling into wet soils, C J Baker8: Seed depth, placement and metering, C J Baker and K E Saxton9: Fertilizer placement, C J Baker10: Residue handling, C J Baker, F Ribeiro, Instito Agronomico do Parana (IAPAR), Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil and K E Saxton11: Comparing surface disturbance and low-disturbance disc openers, C J Baker12: No-tillage for forage production, C J Baker, W (Bill) and R Ritchie13: No-tillage drill and planter design - large-scale machines, C J Baker14: No-tillage drill and planter design - small-scale machines, F Ribeiro, S E Justice, P Hobbs and C J Baker15: Managing a no-tillage seeding system, W (Bill) R Ritchie and C J Baker16: Controlled traffic farming as a complementary practice to no-tillage, W C T Chamen17: Reduced environmental emissions and carbon sequestration, D C Reicosk and K E Saxton18: Some economic comparisons, C J Baker19: Procedures for development and technology transfer, C J Baker

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