Author: Robert L. Zimdahl
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: horizon, ethical, agriculture
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0123705118
ISBN-13: 9780123705112

What are the goals of agricultural science? What should the goals of agricultural science be? How do and how should the practitioners of agriculture address complex ethical questions? These questions are explored in this monumental book so that those in agriculture will begin an open dialoge on the ethics of agriculture. Discussion of foundational values, of why we practice agriculture as we do, should become a central, rather than peripheral, part of agricultural practice and education. If agricultural scientists do not venture forth to understand and shape the ethical base of the future

Author: Wes Jackson
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: new, ranching, farming, agriculture, roots
Number of Pages: 151
Published: 1980-01-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0803275625
ISBN-13: 9780803275621

"The plowshare may well have destroyed more options for future generations than the sword," writes Wes Jackson in a review of practices that have brought U.S. agriculture to the edge of disaster. Tillage has hastened the erosion of irreplaceable topsoil everywhere and a technology based on fossil fuels has increased yields for short-term profits, leaving crops ever more vulnerable to diseases, pests, and droughts. Such, says Jackson, is "the failure of success." As high-technology agriculture becomes more wasteful and expensive, more farmers are being forced off the land or into bankruptcy. J

Author: Kenneth A. Dahlberg
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: research, agricultural, agriculture, directions, new
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1986-06-28
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0847674185
ISBN-13: 9780847674183

In this book, highly qualified authors have developed a foundation for addressing these questions, and others, by making the ethical, value, and goal choices of traditional and innovative approaches more explicit; by evaluating, in particular, the social, health, resource, and environmental impacts of intensive farming; and by discussing how these effects are comprehended-or not comprehended-in national and global contexts.

Author: Y.P.S. Bajaj
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: forestry, agriculture, biotechnology, crops, transgenic
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $298.00
ISBN-10: 3540671315
ISBN-13: 9783540671312

A text of interest to instructors, advanced students and researchers in plant biotechnology, compiling the recent developments in the genetic transformation of fruit and vegetable crops. Each fruit and vegetable is handled separately, including banana, kiwi, carrots, strawberries, potatoes, and broccoli.

Authors:J France, J Thornley,
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: cabi, agriculture, models, mathematical
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2006-05-12
List price: $305.90
ISBN-10: 085199010X
ISBN-13: 9780851990101

Bringing together the disciplines of agriculture, animal science, plant science and ecology, this book explores how mathematics can be used to understand and explain agricultural processes. It starts by providing a review of the mathematical models currently available to agriculturalists, and the philosophy behind, and objectives of, modeling. The book then applies these techniques to real-life problems faced by people managing crops and animals, including the influence of digestion on animal growth rates and levels of photosynthesis on crop yield.

Author: Andrew N. Sharpley
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: chesapeake, management, phosphorus, agriculture
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-12-20
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 1566704944
ISBN-13: 9781566704946

Using the Chesapeake Bay as a case study, Agriculture and Phosphorus Management discusses the impact and management of phosphorus in watersheds. Although urban and other sources contribute phosphorus to the Bay, the papers presented focus on how its role in agriculture impacts water quality. They review the new guidelines and legislation slated for implementation by 2002 directed towards sustainable nutrient management and strategies for implementing them.Phosphorus, an essential element for plant and animal growth, has long been recognized as necessary to eliminate deficiencies and to maintai

Author: Niya Gopal Mukerji
Publisher: Mukerji Press
Keywords: agriculture, indian, handbook
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $35.45
ISBN-10: 1406766410
ISBN-13: 9781406766417

Text extracted from opening pages of book: HANDBOOK OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE DEDICATED TO THE HON’BLE MR. CHARLES EVELYN ARBUTHNOT WILLIAM OLDHAM OF THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE, LATE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE, BENGAL AS A TOKEN OF HIGH ESTEEM AND DEEP GRATITUDE PUBLISHERS’ NOTE TO THIRD EDITION. THE Second Edition of this popular book sold out very rapidly. The publishers have again to record the splendid generosity of the anonymous Editor who has again his vservices and brought the book up-to-date in accord with the most recent progress of Science. PREFACE , TO FIRST EDITION. THE publicat