CEREALS Wheat, Barley, Oats, Triticale, Rye,Duram Wheat. COMBINABLES - Oilseed Rape, Peas - Combinable and Vining, Feild Beans. ROOT - Potatoes, Sugar Beet, Carrots. FORAGES - Grass, Maize, Swedes/Beet/Turnips. SPECIALIST - Sunflowers, Lupins, Borage/Evening Primrose, Soya.
NUTRIENTS COVERED includeS - Nitrogen, Phosphate, Potash, Magnesium, Sulphur, Calcium, Manganese, Copper, Iron, Boron, Molybdenum and Zinc. Published by CONTEXT
Effective fertiliser use is a key to farm profits, and about half the output of crops and intensively managed grassland is generated by fertiliser application. Despite this, the general knowledge of fertilisers and the nutrient sources they contain is sometimes less good than it should be. Over 70 fertiliser materials are featured here, ranging from ammonium nitrate to zinc sulphate.
The FERTILISER Directory has been designed to help you find the information you require in seconds. All products are laid out on separate pages in full colour using a common style throughout. A-Z referencing makes it simple to use.
Published by CONTEXT PUBLICATIONS
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The UK Pesticide Guide is the authoritative guide for information on pesticides and adjuvants for UK agriculture, horticulture, forestry and amenity use.
In the 2007 edition, get the most up-to-date information available for the main spraying season. Check in The Guide to ensure the product you plan to advise on or use is still legal.
The 2007 edition contains details of all current SOLAs, including those published to cover uses lost by the withdrawal of the Long Term Arrangements. Many new products are listed, including those which contain a number of new active incredients, such as prosulfocarb, aminopyralid, dimethenamid and fluopicolide. The Guide contains updated information on the latest legislative changes and developments following the conclusion of the first five years of the Voluntary Initiative programme.
The UK Pesticide Guide 2006 is invaluable for those involved with the Voluntary Initiative. Whether you are a farmer, sprayer or advisor The UK Pesticide Guide helps you to write a Crop Protection Management Plan by giving all the information you need to make the correct choice of product. Plus it contains environmental hazard classifications that will help with the assessment of risk
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Nematodes are the most abundant and diversified group in the animal kingdom, with four out of five animals on earth being nematodes. Nematology was first recognised as an independent discipline during the early part of the century and since that time has made unparalleled advances to become an integral part of biological sciences.
Written as two volumes, this title provides a broad overview of our current knowledge of nematology. This first volume addresses basic biology, while the second covers applied aspects of nematodes as parasites of plants, humans and other animals, or as disease vectors, and the control of pest nematodes. The contributors to this work include the world’s leading authorities from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, New Zealand, UK and USA. It will provide essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in nematology.
Written as two volumes, this title provides a broad overview of our current knowledge of nematology. The first volume addresses basic biology, while this second volume covers applied aspects of nematodes as parasites of plants, humans and other animals, or as disease vectors, and the control of pest nematodes. The contributors to this work include the world’s leading authorities from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, New Zealand, UK and USA. It will provide essential reading for researchers and students with an interest in nematology.
The first authentic record of spice and herb usage is on clay tablets form the Sumarian Kingdom about 3,000 BC and many spices were used or imported into Egypt for embalming, as incense, ointments, perfumes, poison antidotes, cosmetics and medicines. Plants that are the source of spices became important cash crops over the centuries, and since their introduction, their uses have multiplied. This has resulted in a rise in consumer demand following the popularity for natural flavourings, which has in turn increased interest in their production in temperate and tropical countries. This book is concerned with the profitable production of spice crops at all levels of management, more efficient processing and greater utilization. The first authentic record of spice and herb usage is on clay tablets form the Sumarian Kingdom about 3,000 BC and many spices were used or imported into Egypt for embalming, as incense, ointments, perfumes, poison antidotes, cosmetics and medicines. Plants that are the source of spices became important cash crops over the centuries, and since their introduction, their uses have multiplied. This has resulted in a rise in consumer demand following the popularity for natural flavourings, which has in turn increased interest in their production in temperate and tropical countries. This book is concerned with the profitable production of spice crops at all levels of management, more efficient processing and greater utilization.
Reviews
"Spice Crops offers a fine overview of many of the major world spice crops and will be valuable reading for horticulturalists, agronomists and botanists".
Agroforestry News, 2003
"Spice Crops is a magnificent reference work and the culmination of an enormous amount of painstaking assembly of information from a wide range of sources. It is one of those books that give the reader enormous pleasure just to browse throught its information-packed pages."
Biological Agriculture and Horticulture, 2003
Textbook for undergraduate and college students taking courses in soil, crop and environmental science; also advisers to farmers and a more general audience concerned about agriculture and the environment.
Provides factual information and a balanced scientific review of the environmental and sustainability issues relating to fertilizer use and how its environmental impact can be minimized.
No equivalent text available.
Illustrated in colour throughout.
This title will contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of agriculture and will be of value in future discussions of regulations and changes in practices.
Current pressures to maximise the use of forages in ruminant diets have renewed interest in fast, inexpensive methods for the estimation of their nutritional value. As a result, a wide variety of biological and physiochemical procedures have recently been investigated for this purpose.
This book is the single definitive reference volume on the current status of research in this area
Covers all forages eaten by ruminant animals
This book is an essential reference source covering the chemical elements that are nutrients for plants or grazing animals. It deals with the concentrations and transformations of these elements in soils, grassland plants, and ruminant animals, particularly cattle and sheep. For each element, the following data are given: forms occurring in soil, factors that affect availability and concentration, uptake and distribution in grassland plants, role in animal nutrition, amounts and forms excreted by grazing animals, and concentrations needed by ruminant animals.
Covers data relevant to grassland areas of temperate regions
Includes a glossary of specialised terms.
This book includes keynote invited papers from the Third International Crop Science Congress held in Hamburg, Germany in August 2000. All papers have been prepared and revised within strict editorial guidelines to ensure that the work is a balanced review text that provides an overview of the major issues confronting crop science today and in the future. It therefore represents a suitable advanced textbook for students as well as offering research workers concise overviews of topics adjacent to their areas of research. Contributors include leading world authorities from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
