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Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Paperback)

Name: Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Paperback)
Brand: Seth Kroeck; Jocelyn Langer
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Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Paperback)Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm Paperback 9781603583459

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Foundational Techniques: Explores the historical origins of cover-cropping methods, providing a comprehensive understanding of their development and application in organic farming.
Strategic Planning: Guides farmers in developing effective crop rotations, emphasizing long-term benefits like disease and pest reduction, and weed suppression, beyond immediate cash crops.
Rotation Design: Details practical aspects of creating a good rotation, including farm mapping, crop grouping strategies, and illustrative sample groupings for diverse agricultural settings.
Economic Considerations: Addresses the financial implications of crop rotations and cover cropping, covering aspects such as work organization, labor input reduction, and costs associated with land and cover crop seeds.
Practical Application: Features real-world, on-farm examples and includes detailed appendices to support the theoretical concepts with practical implementation guidance.

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Book format
Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
Home, Hobbies, & Garden
Publication date
April, 2011
Pages
96
Reading level
General/Trade

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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.

Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Paperback)

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Book format

Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Non-Fiction

Genre

Home, Hobbies, & Garden

Publication date

April, 2011

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