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Record Nr.

UNISA996203146803316

Autore

Coughenour C. Milton

Titolo

Conservation tillage and cropping innovation [[electronic resource] ] : constructing the new culture of agriculture / / C. Milton Coughenour, Shankariah Chamala

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ames, Iowa, : Iowa State University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-282-36522-3

9786612365225

0-470-29014-5

0-470-29000-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChamalaShankariah

Disciplina

631.451

Soggetti

Agricultural innovations

Conservation tillage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-351).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.