ilość książek w kategorii: 1042
Marketing Grain and Livestock
ISBN: 9780813829579 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marketing is an essential part of any business and the business of agriculture is no exception to this rule. Written by an experienced educator with expertise in futures markets, hedging, and technical price analysis, Marketing Grain & Livestock, 2nd Edition teaches the basics of commodities marketing by farmers, ranchers, grain elevators, packers, and processors.
Building upon what made the first edition so appealing user-friendly, understandable writing Stasko writes for his audience in clear-cut concise vernacular. In his revamped second edition, he has included updated... Marketing is an essential part of any business and the business of agriculture is no exception to this rule. Written by an experienced educator with e...
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455,52 zł |
Agriculture, Environment, and Health: Sustainable Development in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780816622924 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agriculture, Environment, and Health offers a broad and challenging analysis of changes now under way at the global level in institutional design and policy reform that ultimately will promote sustainable growth in agricultural production.
Agriculture, Environment, and Health offers a broad and challenging analysis of changes now under way at the global level in institutional design and ...
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135,59 zł |
Seeds and Sovereignty: Debate Over the Use and Control of Plant Genetic Resources
ISBN: 9780822307563 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seeds for economically important crops are big business indeed. As large seed companies continue to improve their product in various ways, they make use of the original gene pools of these plants, often located in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. With increasing recognition that plant germplasm is an important raw material, highly charged international disputes have developed over the exchange and use of this material, adding another point of contention between poor nations and the manufacturing wealthier ones.
Twenty experts from several nations, representing both the natural... Seeds for economically important crops are big business indeed. As large seed companies continue to improve their product in various ways, they make u...
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412,14 zł |
Mathematical Models of Crop Growth and Yield
ISBN: 9780824708252 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlighting effective, analytical functions that have been found useful for the comparison of alternative management techniques to maximize water and nutrient resources, this reference describes the application of viable mathematical models in data analysis to increase crop growth and yields. Featuring solutions to various differential equations, the book covers the characteristics of the functions related to the phenomenological growth model. Including more than 1300 literature citations, display equations, tables, and figures and outlining an approach to mathematical crop modeling,...
Highlighting effective, analytical functions that have been found useful for the comparison of alternative management techniques to maximize water and...
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626,03 zł |
Soil Reclamation Processes: Microbiological Analyses and Applications
ISBN: 9780824772864 / Angielski / Twarda / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1460,74 zł |
Safer Insecticides: Development and Use
ISBN: 9780824778842 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reference to the design of new insecticides nontoxic to the environment and the public emphasizing optimal food production with greater safety. Some 30 international experts examine topics including new types of active molecules among natural products and animal toxins; insect metabolic and organ sy
Reference to the design of new insecticides nontoxic to the environment and the public emphasizing optimal food production with greater safety. Some 3...
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1147,72 zł |
Soil-Water Interactions: Mechanisms Applications, Second Edition, Revised Expanded
ISBN: 9780824792930 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emphasizing pioneering achievements, this work offers a clear and systematic description of various soil-water phenomena and their applications to soil problems such as water retention and the flux of water in soils and clays. This second edition contains material on the physical properties of adsorbed water, the application of fractal theory to solute and water flows in field soils, fingering research, and more.
Emphasizing pioneering achievements, this work offers a clear and systematic description of various soil-water phenomena and their applications to soi...
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1512,91 zł |
The Future of Genetically Modified Crops: Lessons from the Green Revolution
ISBN: 9780833036469 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigates the circumstances and processes required to establish the new Gene Revolution in which genetically modified crops are tailored to address chronic agricultural problems in specific regions of the world.
Investigates the circumstances and processes required to establish the new Gene Revolution in which genetically modified crops are tailored to address...
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110,07 zł |
Many Shades of Red: State Policy and Collective Agriculture
ISBN: 9780847690398 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a radical and timely corrective to received wisdom about the seemingly inevitable transition from communism to democratic capitalism. Arguing against popular misconceptions that portray collectivized agriculture as an unqualified failure that followed a monolithic Soviet model, the contributors draw upon newly available local sources to illuminate the costs, benefits, successes, and failures of cooperative agriculture. They highlight the wide variety of state policies, local responses, and economic outcomes, as well as the influence of local geography, political...
This volume provides a radical and timely corrective to received wisdom about the seemingly inevitable transition from communism to democratic capital...
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230,64 zł |
Stink Bugs of Economic Importance in America North of Mexico
ISBN: 9780849300714 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many scientists have reported an extensive amount of information on th e biology, life history, and damage potential of stink bugs. However, this information is scattered among numerous journals, periodicals, an d other publications. Stink Bugs of Economic Importance in America Nor th of Mexico brings together the applied and nonapplied literature in one complete and concise format.
Many scientists have reported an extensive amount of information on th e biology, life history, and damage potential of stink bugs. However, this info...
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704,29 zł |
Soil Physics Companion
ISBN: 9780849308376 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative reference on soil physics, Soil Physics Companion is lavishly illustrated with graphs, charts, line drawings, and equations. The book provides a valuable source of material and reference for most contemporary topics of soil physics and the vadose zone - arguably the most comprehensive volume available. In addition to being a reliable reference, it is valuable as an advanced text from which topics of interest can be selected by the teacher and student.
Topics include: An authoritative reference on soil physics, Soil Physics Companion is lavishly illustrated with graphs, charts, line drawings, and equations. The book...
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912,96 zł |
Biotic Stress and Yield Loss
ISBN: 9780849311451 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is unique in that it is the first to cover all biotic stress ors, insects, weeds, and plant pathogens, and their impact on plant yi eld and fitness. It focuses on current knowledge of yield and fitness loss in both natural and agricultural ecosystems and on a physiologica lly-based approach to provide a common basis for considering and discu ssing biotic stress. By considering biotic stress within the context o f plant ecophysiology, Biotic Stress and Yield Loss attempts to elevat e knowledge of biotic stress to the same level as abiotic stress and m akes an argument for integrating...
This book is unique in that it is the first to cover all biotic stress ors, insects, weeds, and plant pathogens, and their impact on plant yi eld and ...
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912,96 zł |
Soil Tillage in Agroecosystems
ISBN: 9780849312281 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides guidance on cultivation methods for preserving soil and soil ecosystems and at what intensity level tillage methods should be applied Uses current research and data to document the consequences of intensive plowing on soil structure, soil chemical processes, and soil borne pathogens Details the effects of tillage on specific groups of soil biota Contains contributions from internationally known agricultural scientists Using the knowledge of soil ecology under natural, undisturbed conditions, Soil Tillage in Agroecosystems focuses on how cultivation affects soil and the soil...
Provides guidance on cultivation methods for preserving soil and soil ecosystems and at what intensity level tillage methods should be applied Uses cu...
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965,13 zł |
Herbicide Resistance and World Grains
ISBN: 9780849322198 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by experts from across the globe, Herbicide Resistance and World Grains evaluates the weed and herbicide management systems in major world grain crops such as soybean, maize, rice, and canola. The book examines the impact of transgenic crops and new technology on resistance management. It provides background information and offers practical guidelines for the management of herbicide resistant weeds with an emphasis on a systems approach.
This book provides the how-tos of managing herbicide resistant weed populations in the major grain crops. The authors also explore the... Written by experts from across the globe, Herbicide Resistance and World Grains evaluates the weed and herbicide management systems in major world gra...
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1095,56 zł |
Tropical Forage Plants: Development and Use
ISBN: 9780849323188 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tropical Forage Plants: Development and Use covers the research and resulting pasture development in the tropics and subtropics, which has undergone dramatic changes in the past few decades. Providing a broad, global perspective, it serves as a comprehensive resource covering a wide range of subjects pertaining to forage and animal production in the tropics and subtropics including such aspects as agronomy, pasture management, forage plant breeding, soils, plant nutrition, and disease management and control.
The book presents extensive coverage of the technical aspects of forage-based... Tropical Forage Plants: Development and Use covers the research and resulting pasture development in the tropics and subtropics, which has undergone d...
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1304,24 zł |
CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences
ISBN: 9780849323270 / Angielski / Twarda / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary agriculture is a wide-ranging field with its own unique language. As an aid for improving scientific communication for everyone from students to public decision-makers, this directory provides a comprehensive guide to the terminology of agriculture. It includes every area of agriculture, from traditional farming to environmental sciences to the latest developments in biotechology and genetics. It includes definitions of agricultural education, agroecology, forestry, pathology, and veterinary science.
Contemporary agriculture is a wide-ranging field with its own unique language. As an aid for improving scientific communication for everyone from stud...
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912,96 zł |
Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming
ISBN: 9780849323492 / Angielski / Twarda / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I've seen the Sudan, traveled in South and Central America and been all over Europe, but I've never seen what I've been able to see on this tour of the Loess Plateau, China]."
-Ed Skidmore, soil scientist, Wind Erosion Research Unit of the Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Manhattan, Kansas Overpopulation is at the core of most environmental problems. The impacts of continued growth-with world population reaching 6 billion in October 1999-are felt in most parts of the world. China, the most populous nation, illustrates many of the pivotal problems-and solutions. Although... "I've seen the Sudan, traveled in South and Central America and been all over Europe, but I've never seen what I've been able to see on this tour of ...
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1304,24 zł |
Plant Nutritional Genomics
ISBN: 9780849323621 / Angielski / Twarda / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A 'textbook' plant typically comprises about 85% water and 13.5% carbohydrates. The remaining fraction contains at least 14 mineral elements, without which plants would be unable to complete their life cycles.
Understanding plant nutrition and applying this knowledge is essential to increasing crop production to meet growing demands for food. Genotypic approaches, based on crop selection and / or breeding have recently begun to benefit from technological advances, including the completion of plant genome sequencing projects. Plant Nutritional Genomics provides a timely overview of... A 'textbook' plant typically comprises about 85% water and 13.5% carbohydrates. The remaining fraction contains at least 14 mineral elements, without ...
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678,21 zł |
Specialty Corns
ISBN: 9780849323775 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of Specialty Corns includes everything in the first edition and more. Considered the standard in this field, significant changes have been made to keep all the information current and bring the references up-to-date. Two new chapters have been added to keep up with the latest trends: Blue Corn and Baby Corn. Access the latest methods in developing specialty corns with this standard-setting reference. Edited by an expert in the field who has spent his professional life working with corn, Specialty Corns, Second Edition discusses the genetic...
Completely revised and updated, the Second Edition of Specialty Corns includes everything in the first edition and more. Considered the standard in th...
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1695,50 zł |
Global Plant Genetic Resources for Insect-Resistant Crops
ISBN: 9780849326950 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. in the conservation and use of global plant genetic resources for sustainable agricultural production, Global Plant Genetic Resources for Insect-Resistant Crops explores plant biodiversity, its preservation, and its use to develop crops resistant to pests, thereby reducing world-wide use of chemical pesticides. Topics addressed include:
in the conservation and use of global plant genetic resources for sustainable agricultural production, Global Plant Genetic Resources for Insect-Resis...
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730,37 zł |