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
Professional and academic workers in agronomy, soil science and agricultural engineering.
The 'What' and 'Why' of no-tillage farming, C J Baker and K E Saxton
The benefits of no-tillage, D R Reicosky and K E Saxton
The nature of risk in no-tillage, C J Baker, W (Bill) R Ritchie and K E Saxton
Seeding openers and slot shape, C J Baker
The role of slot cover, C J Baker
Drilling into dry soils, C J Baker
Drilling into wet soils, C J Baker
Seed depth, placement and metering, C J Baker and K E Saxton
Fertilizer placement, C J Baker
Residue handling, C J Baker, F Ribeiro, Instito Agronômico do Paraná (IAPAR), Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil and K E Saxton
Comparing surface disturbance and low-disturbance disc openers, C J Baker
No-tillage for forage production, C J Baker, W (Bill) and R Ritchie
No-tillage drill and planter design - large-scale machines, C J Baker
No-tillage drill and planter design - small-scale machines, F Ribeiro, S E Justice, P Hobbs and C J Baker
Managing a no-tillage seeding system, W (Bill) R Ritchie and C J Baker
Controlled traffic farming as a complementary practice to no-tillage, W C T Chamen
Reduced environmental emissions and carbon sequestration, D C Reicosk and K E Saxton
Some economic comparisons, C J Baker
Procedures for development and technology transfer, C J Baker
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...