Cropping Systems: Trends and Advances

by Anil Shrestha

Overview

Learn the fundamentals as well as in-depth details of agricultural cropping systems from around the globe!

Cropping Systems: Trends and Advances is a comprehensive review of past and present research efforts in North America and other parts of the world. It brings together biological, economic, sociological, and technical aspects of cropping systems in a single source to provide a reference unlike any other on the subject that is available today. This valuable book also points to future directions that cropping systems research needs to take in order to increase sustainable agriculture and feed the growing world population. Charts, tables, and illustrations make the information easy to access and understand.

An ideal textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in agronomy as well as a comprehensive reference for professionals involved in cropping systems research, Cropping Systems: Trends and Advances is a book you’ll refer to again and again. Topics covered in this well-referenced and thoughtfully indexed book include:

• emerging trends in cropping systems research
• designing resource-efficient cropping systems
• soil quality and fertility
• tillage
• root dynamics
• water quality concerns
• nitrogen use efficiency
• precision agriculture
• agricultural biotechnology
• weed biology and management
• integrated pest management
• the important role that cover crops can play
• key indicators for assessing nitrogen use efficiency in cereal-based agroecosystems
• the implications of elevated carbon dioxide-induced changes in agroecosystem productivity
• and a great deal more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560221067
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/04/2004
Series:	Journal of Crop Production Vol. 8, Nos. 1/2 and Vol. 9 Nos. 1/2 Ser.
Pages:	726
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.38(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Emerging Trends in Cropping Systems Research , Advances in the Design of Resource-Efficient Cropping Systems , Cropping Systems and Soil Quality , The Role of Cover Crops in North American Cropping Systems , Advances in Tillage Research in North American Cropping Systems , The Importance of Root Dynamics in Cropping Systems Research , Key Indicators for Assessing Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Cereal-Based Agroecosystems , Forage Legumes for Sustainable Cropping Systems , Implications of Elevated CO2-Induced Changes in Agroecosystem Productivity , Weed Biology, Cropping Systems, and Weed Management , Cropping Systems and Integrated Pest Management: Examples from Selected Crops , Conceptual Model for Sustainable Cropping Systems in the Southeast: Cotton System , Cropping Systems and Water Quality Concerns , The Role of Precision Agriculture in Cropping Systems , Trends in Decision Support Systems for Cropping Systems Analysis: Examples from Nebraska , A Framework for Economic Analysis of Cropping Systems: Profitability, Risk Management, and Resource Allocation , Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Agriculture , From Chemical Ecology to Agronomy: Cropping Systems in the Humid Northeast , Current and Potential Role of Transgenic Crops in U.S. Agriculture , Problems and Perspectives of Yam-Based Cropping Systems in Africa , Crop Technology Introduction in Semiarid West Africa: Performance and Future Strategy , Brazilian Agriculture: The Transition to Sustainability , Cropping Systems in Eastern Europe: Past, Present, and Future , Socioeconomic and Agricultural Factors Associated with Mixed Cropping Systems in Small Farms of Southwestern Guatemala , The Future of Cereal Yields and Prices: Implications for Research and Policy , Index , Reference Notes

What People are Saying About This

Gary W. Fick

A systematic collection of review and research papers that will be useful for all agricultural scientists and especially crop and soil scientists. STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND ADMINISTRATORS WILL ALL BENEFIT from the combination of the historical, contemporary, and future-oriented aspects of the subject that are integrated in this work. THE CHAPTER AUTHORS INCLUDE PRESENT AND FUTURE LEADERS IN THE FIELD with broad international perspectives. I am planning to use this book in my own teaching.
—PhD, Professor of Agronomy, Cornell University

Peter Jeranyama

AN INTERESTING READ AT THE ADVANCED UNDERGRADUATE TO GRADUATE LEVEL. The editor has done a marvelous job of connecting varied approaches together to confer a single message-cropping systems design for a better future. Present-day cropping systems are moving away from a reductionist and green revolution strategy of maximizing crop yields at the expense of the ecosystem. This book brings to bear some of the intricacies required for this paradigm shift. It's a good thing that a chapter dealing with root dynamics and diverse below-ground substrate has been included, as such studies have been glaringly missing in the cropping systems literature.
—PhD, Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences, University of Sasketchewan