Cover Crops and Sustainable Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9781032034409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

Rafiq Islam; Bradford Sherman

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This book will not serve as the "encyclopedia of cover crop management," but it’s close. The economic and environmental benefits of individual cover crops and blends/mixes for specific agronomic crop rotations and geographic locations are included.

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Introduction to Cover Crops Rafiq Islam, Nataliia Didenko, and Bradford Sherman Benefits of Cover Crops on Agronomic Crop Yield Kateryna Chorna Potential and Challenges of Growing Cover Crops in Organic Production Systems Sutie Xu, Sindhu Jagadamma, Renata Nave Oakes, Song Cui, Erin Byers, and Zhou Li Cover Crops in Vegetable Production and Urban Farming in Sub-Saharan Countries Michael Kwabena Osei, Mavis Akom, Joseph Adjebeng-Danquah, Kenneth Fafa Egbadzor, Samuel Oppong Abebrese, Kwabena Asare Bediako and Richard Agyare Algorithms to optimize cropping diversity with cover crops Romashchenko M., Matiash T. , Bohaienko V., Kovalchuk V., and Lukashuk V. Sustainable suppression of weeds through ecological use of cover crops Shawn T. Lucas Cover crops for pests and soil-borne disease control and insect diversity Nataliia Didenko, Vira Konovalova, Somayyeh Razzaghi, Alimata Bandaogo, Sougata Bardhan, and Alan Sundermeier Cover Crops for Forages and Livestock Grazing Riti Chatterjee Cover crops’ effect on soil quality and soil health M. A. Rahman Cover Crops for Orchard Soil Management Biswajit Das, B.K. Kandpal and H. Lembisana Devi Cover Crop Mixes for Diversity, Carbon, and Conservation Agriculture Reicosky, D.C., Ademir Calegari, Danilo Rheinheimer dos Santos, and Tales Tiecher Cover crops and soil nitrogen cycling Nitu, T.T., U.M. Milu, and M.M.R. Jahangir Effect of Cover Crops on Soil Biology Harit K. Bal Cover cropping improves soil quality and physical properties Yillmaz Bayhan Cover Crops Effects on Soil Erosion and Water Quality Beenish Saba and Ann D. Christy Effects of cover crops on greenhouse gas emissions Somayyeh Razzaghi Cover crops influence soil microbial and biochemical properties Amoakwah, E. Economics of Cover Crops Mohammad S. Rahman and James J. Hoorman