While grasslands face a number of challenges, such as land-use competition and the impact of climate change, there is a growing recognition of the critical role they play in supporting the transitio……続きを見る
This collection features four peer-reviewed reviews on intercropping.
The first chapter summarises data from over 50 field experiments undertaken since 2001 on cereal–grain legume intercropping usin……続きを見る
Cet ouvrage fait le point des connaissances sur le comportement alimentaire des ruminants : composition des aliments, caractéristiques de l'ingestion et de la rumination, écosystème microbien, conte……続きを見る
The use of chemical pesticides is a major societal concern due to their negative impact on the environment and health. The French Priority Research Programme "Growing and Protecting Crops Differentl……続きを見る
This book brings together the data of lastest international research and was conceived as the result of a summer school held at the INRA Centre of Clermont-Ferrand/Theix from 24 September to 4 Octob……続きを見る
A l'heure où certaines méthodes de production agricole portent atteinte à l'environnement et à la santé publique, cet ouvrage rappelle qu'il existe des systèmes de production plus durables, liés au ……続きを見る
Les auteurs proposent un regard rétrospectif sur une période fondatrice d'une réforme de l'expertise liée aux crises sanitaires des années 1990. La place occupée par la dynamique scientifique du dom……続きを見る
Lignins are nature's aromatic polymers and are the second most abundant organic constituent of the biosphere next to cellulose. Lignification mainly occurs in the walls of terrestrial vascular plant……続きを見る
Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varieties
Coverage of advances across the value chain for grain l……続きを見る
Reviews recent advances in understanding pollination dynamics and the role of plant-pollinator relationships in agro-ecosystems
Provides a comprehensive assessment of the major threats to economica……続きを見る
Summarises current research on the adoption of Conservation Agriculture (CA) principles in different regions around the world
Highlights the emergence of CA as a key alternative to tillage-based ag……続きを見る
This book presents a newly designed dynamic fluidic sprinkler (DFS) to improve hydraulic performance of the existing complete fluidic sprinkler (CFS) under low-pressure conditions. Sprinkler irrigat……続きを見る
Michel Journet offre une perspective à la fois personnelle et historique sur les évolutions de l'agriculture.
L’auteur, au- delà du parcours de la famille dans l’entre Beauce et Perche, retrace 2 si……続きを見る
Contains:
Our Farm of Four Acres, by Miss Coulton
Ten Acres Enough, By Edmund Morris
Three Acres and Liberty, By Bolton Hall
The Home Acre, by E. P. Roe
A FARM, to many, can be a romantic idea.
For ……続きを見る
Dairying runs back to a period in the development of the human race of which we have no record. Man early learned to not only slay animals and eat their flesh, but to appropriate to himself the food……続きを見る
In our farm, we listened to the old farmers, who told of simple solutions. Instead of feeding the cattle over-winter in a lot and turning them out in the spring (and having to scrape and dispose of ……続きを見る
Nature works and has been working for a billion and a half yearsーever since there were living things on earth. This is important. We talk of controlling nature, but any wise farmer or stockman know……続きを見る
The first domestication of the horse, one of the greatest achievements of man in the animal kingdom, was not the work of a day; but like all other great accomplishments, was brought about by a gradu……続きを見る
...Ladies certainly do not care to passage in the streets, but they do want to know how to stop their horses cleverly when they take fright, to turn their corners neatly at the trot without danger o……続きを見る
Perhaps the most characteristic feature of Northern and Eastern farms is the home vegetable garden. Even where no orchard has been planted, and where the ornamental surroundings of the home have bee……続きを見る
By thought and courage, we can help ourselves to own a home, surrounded by acres of fruit and vegetables, flowers and poultry, and learn the best methods so as to insure success.
In olden times any ……続きを見る
North, south, east, and west, there are plenty of hideous conglomerations of poor-looking houses, with an absence of every element of beauty; but there are thousands of other villages scattered all ……続きを見る
The object of the following work, on the History, Breeding, Management, Diseases, &c., of Domestic Animals, is to afford the Stock-breeder and Grazier a connected view of the entire subject in which……続きを見る
More mechanical knowledge is required on the farm than in any other line of business. If a farmer is not mechanically inclined, he is under the necessity of employing someone who is.
Some farms are ……続きを見る
This book is designed primarily to give the farmer a practical working knowledge of electricity for use as light, heat, and power on the farm. The electric generator, the dynamo, is explained in det……続きを見る
POULTRY production is commonly practiced on every farm, but profitable poultry production so far as the farm is concerned, is rare indeed. No one, as a rule, has better natural conditions for poultr……続きを見る
These two books explain each other.
The first is a fictional account, based on the science behind agriculture.
The second is a shortened explanation of that science.
When you read his fiction-base……続きを見る
Farmers in the thickly populated Eastern and Middle States, or, in fact, east of the Mississippi River, cannot grow grains nor fatten beeves with the same profit as before the opening of the great W……続きを見る
They have already come to learn that this age, so distinguished for its scientific progress and its widespread knowledge has, in spite of these advantages, completely failed in its promise of peace ……続きを見る
Too many in these several classes think they know enough. They measure a man's knowledge by the number of his acres. Hence, in their eyes the owner of a plot so humble as mine must know so little as……続きを見る
