No-tillage seeding in conservation agriculture

✍ Scribed by C J Baker, K E Saxton, W R Ritchie, W C T Chamen, D C Reicosky, F Ribeiro, S E Justice

Publisher: Published jointly by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Cabi Pub
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 341
Series: Cabi Publishing
Edition: 2nd ed
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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

Co-published with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The 'what' and 'why' of no-tillage farming / C. John Baker and Keith E. Saxton --
The benefits of no-tillage / Don C. Reicosky and Keith E. Saxton --
The nature of risk in no-tillage / C. John Baker, W. (Bill) R. Ritchie, and Keith E. Saxton --
Seeding openers and slot shape / C. John Baker --
The role of slot cover / C. John Baker --
Drilling into dry soils / C. John Baker --
Drilling into wet soils / C. John Baker --
Seed depth, placement and metering / C. John Baker and Keith E. Saxton --
Fertilizer placement / C. John Baker --
Residue handling / C. John Baker, Fatima Ribeiro, and Keith E. Saxton --
Comparing surface disturbance and low-disturbance disc openers / C. John Baker --
No-tillage for forage production / C. John Baker and W. (Bill) R. Ritchie --
No-tillage drill and planter design : large-scale machines / C. John Baker --
No-tillage drill and planter design : small-scale machines / Fatima Ribeiro, Scott E. Justice, Peter R. Hobbs and C. John Baker --
Managing a no-tillage seeding system / W. (Bill) R. Ritchie and C. John Baker --
Controlled-traffic farming as a complementary practice to no-tillage / W.C. Tim Chamen --
Reduced environmental emissions and carbon sequestration / Don C. Reicosky and Keith E. Saxton --
Some economic comparisons / C. John Baker --
Procedures for development and technology transfer / C. John Baker.

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