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Weed control demands time, labor and expense for every farmer every year. Steel in the Field shows how today’s implements and techniques can control weeds while reducing — or eliminating — herbicides. In practical language, the 128-page book presents what farmers and researchers have learned in the last 20 years about cutting weed-control costs through improved cultivation tools, cover crops and new cropping rotations.
This is the first tool-centered book to combine farmer experience, commercial agricultural engineering expertise and university research. It directly tackles the hard questions of how to comply with erosion-prevention plans, how to remain profitable and how to manage residue and moisture loss.
Farmers — 22 of them — do a lot of the talking, sharing their struggles and successes with tools, weeds, herbicides and cropping systems. Their advice ranges from the specific — setting mini-disks 0.75 inches deep and 2 inches away from 2-inch tall plants — to the general, such as one farmer’s estimate of the correct speed for using his coil-tine weeder: “As fast as you can hang on is fine.” This book is a must for anyone looking to reduce or replace pesticide inputs. Index, contact list, detailed illustrations and tool source list included.
Publisher : Sustainable Agriculture Network (June 1, 1997)
Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 188862602X
ISBN-13 : 978-1888626025
Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
