Building Soils for Better Crops
Editor's note
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Building Soils for Better Crops explains how soil management boosts fertility and yields while reducing environmental impacts and pest pressures. Ecological soil management works with, rather than against, the built-in strengths of your plant/soil system.
Keywords
- Soil organic matter
- Managing soil tilth
- Using appropriate tillage
- Incorporating animal manures
- Making and using composts
- Integrating cover crops into rotations
- Reducing soil erosion
- Nutrient management
- Methods to avoid and decrease soil compaction
- Evaluate soil health
Pages
SX1007, new June 2000