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Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm
Current price:
$15.95
Publication Date: April 15th, 2011
Publisher:
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
ISBN:
9781603583459
Pages:
96
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Description
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.