Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping - Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm
Author(s): Seth Kroeck; Jocelyn Langer (Illustrator)
Part of the NOFA guides. This volume 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Chelsea Green Publishing
- : Chelsea Green Publishing
- : 0.158757
- : 14 April 2011
- : .25 Inches X 6 Inches X 9 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Seth Kroeck; Jocelyn Langer (Illustrator)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 631.4/52
- : 96