C. Milton Coughenour, Shankariah Chamala

Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation (eBook, PDF)

Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A sociological study of changing farming methods, Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation investigates those techniques that have gradually continued to replace the plow culture. With thorough documentation of the conservation tillage and cropping revolution, this book features chapters on: The Social Construction of Innovative Networks; Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension; The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470290002
• Artikelnr.: 38207076

Autorenporträt

C. Milton Coughenour is the author of Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture, published by Wiley. Shankariah Chamala is the author of Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Conceptualizing System Innovation: Social Construction of Conservation Tillage and Cropping
Plow Culture in the United States and Australia
Farming in the 1950s: The Driving Forces
The Social Construction of Innovative Networks
Social Construction of New Tillage and Cropping Systems in the united States
The Construction of New Tillage Systems in Australia
The Spread of Conservation Tillage in Kentucky and Queensland
Reconstructing the Farm Landscape: The Spread of Conservation Tillage in the United States
Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension
The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future
Bibliography
Acronyms
Index.