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Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping : Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm
by Seth Kroeck and Jocelyn Langer
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781603583459
- ISBN-10: 1603583459
- Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
- Publish Date: March 2011
- Dimensions: 8.95 x 6.05 x 0.24 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.36 pounds
- Page Count: 96
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