Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture / Edition 1

by C. Milton Coughenour, Shankariah Chamala

Overview

A sociological study of changing farming methods, Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation investigates those techniques that have gradually continued to replace the plow culture.

With thorough documentation of the conservation tillage and cropping revolution, this book features chapters on: The Social Construction of Innovative Networks; Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension; The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813819471
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/03/2001
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

C. Milton Coughenour is the author of Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture, published by Wiley.

Shankariah Chamala is the author of Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Conceptualizing System Innovation: Social Construction of Conservation Tillage and Cropping; Plow Culture in the United States and Australia; Farming in the 1950s: The Driving Forces; The Social Construction of Innovative Networks; Social Construction of New Tillage and Cropping Systems in the united States; The Construction of New Tillage Systems in Australia; The Spread of Conservation Tillage in Kentucky and Queensland; Reconstructing the Farm Landscape: The Spread of Conservation Tillage in the United States; Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension; The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future; Bibliography; Acronyms; Index.

Editorial Reviews

This sociological study of innovation in agriculture looks at the causes, process, significance, and socioeconomic and ecological conditions of the change in tillage and cropping practices in the United States and Australia. It looks at the techniques that have replaced plow culture, tracing the changes that have occurred since the 1950s. Coughenour teaches sociology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Chamala teaches natural and rural systems management at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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