Description
The Drought-Resilient Farm: Improve Your Soil's Ability to Hold and Supply Moisture for Plants; Maintain Feed and Drinking Water for Livestock when Rainfall Is Limited; Redesign Agricultural Systems to Fit Semi-arid Climates
By Strickler, Dale
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 200
Publisher Workman Publishing
This in-depth practical guide teaches farmers, ranchers, and gardeners special techniques for managing rainfall and water most efficiently and reducing the impact of drought and increasingly unpredictable weather conditions on crops and livestock. Minimising the negative effects of drought depends on maximising the way that soil captures water and makes it available to plants and animals. Farmers, ranchers, and gardeners will learn how to get more water into the soil when it rains, keep water in the soil longer, and help plants - including pasture staples - to better extract water from the soil. Those who raise livestock can then delve deeper into ensuring an adequate water supply for their animals and providing emergency forage in a drought. AUTHOR: Dale Strickler is a leader in the soil health movement and an agronomist for Green Cover Seed, the nation's leading cover crop specific seed company. Strickler holds degrees in agronomy from Kansas State University and taught agronomy at Cloud County Community College for 15 years. He worked as an agronomist for Land O'Lakes, Star Seed, and Valent USA prior to working with Green Cover Seed. He successfully farms and ranches cattle in Kansas, where he uses fewer than 4 acre inches of water per year. SELLING POINTS: . Unp
By Strickler, Dale
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 200
Publisher Workman Publishing
This in-depth practical guide teaches farmers, ranchers, and gardeners special techniques for managing rainfall and water most efficiently and reducing the impact of drought and increasingly unpredictable weather conditions on crops and livestock. Minimising the negative effects of drought depends on maximising the way that soil captures water and makes it available to plants and animals. Farmers, ranchers, and gardeners will learn how to get more water into the soil when it rains, keep water in the soil longer, and help plants - including pasture staples - to better extract water from the soil. Those who raise livestock can then delve deeper into ensuring an adequate water supply for their animals and providing emergency forage in a drought. AUTHOR: Dale Strickler is a leader in the soil health movement and an agronomist for Green Cover Seed, the nation's leading cover crop specific seed company. Strickler holds degrees in agronomy from Kansas State University and taught agronomy at Cloud County Community College for 15 years. He worked as an agronomist for Land O'Lakes, Star Seed, and Valent USA prior to working with Green Cover Seed. He successfully farms and ranches cattle in Kansas, where he uses fewer than 4 acre inches of water per year. SELLING POINTS: . Unp