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Autore |
Coughenour C. Milton |
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Titolo |
Conservation tillage and cropping innovation [[electronic resource] ] : constructing the new culture of agriculture / / C. Milton Coughenour, Shankariah Chamala |
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Ames, Iowa, : Iowa State University Press, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-36522-3 |
9786612365225 |
0-470-29014-5 |
0-470-29000-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Agricultural innovations |
Conservation tillage |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-351). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Conceptualizing System Innovation: Social Construction of Conservation Tillage and Cropping; 3 Plow Culture in the United States and Australia; 4 Farming in the 1950s: The Driving Forces; 5 The Social Construction of Innovative Networks; 6 Social Construction of New Tillage and Cropping Systems in the United States; 7 The Construction of New Tillage Systems in Australia; 8 The Spread of Conservation Tillage in Kentucky and Queensland |
9 Reconstructing the Farm Landscape: The Spread of Conservation Tillage in the United States10 Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension; 11 The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future; Bibliography; Acronyms; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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