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Book Synopsis

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.



Table of Contents

1. Historical roots
2. Thinking beyond this season's cash crop
3. What is a good rotation?
4. The economics of rotations and cover cropping
5. Two on-farm examples

Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency

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A Paperback / softback by Seth Kroeck, Jocelyn Langer

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    Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
    Publication Date: 15/04/2011
    ISBN13: 9781603583459, 978-1603583459
    ISBN10: 1603583459
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    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.



    Table of Contents

    1. Historical roots
    2. Thinking beyond this season's cash crop
    3. What is a good rotation?
    4. The economics of rotations and cover cropping
    5. Two on-farm examples

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