Lockhart and Wiseman’s Crop Husbandry Including Grassland

10th Edition - October 22, 2022
Editors: Alison Samuel, Louisa Dines, Steve Finch, Gerry P. Lane
Language: English
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Lockhart and Wiseman’s Crop Husbandry Including Grassland, Tenth Edition delivers the latest developments in crop varieties, crop protection products and environmental schemes. This new edition reflects the changing world around us, with sections covering the principles of crop production and chapters on plants, climate, soil management, fertilizers, manures, weeds and diseases that threaten farm crops. Other chapters focus on crop husbandry techniques and the integration of sustainability across the board in crop production. This update also includes an additional focus on the principles of plant breeding, seed production and certification considerations necessary for today’s agriculture.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cropping
Crop yields
Crop inputs
Crop mechanisation and storage
Support and legislation
Environment and climate issues
Research and advice
Education
1. Plants
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Plant groups
1.3. Plant structure
1.4. Plant physiology
1.5. Seeds
1.6. Plant requirements
1.7. Legumes and nitrogen fixation
1.8. The control of plant growth and development
1.9. Key points
2. Climate and weather
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Solar radiation
2.3. Rainfall
2.4. Air and soil temperature
2.5. Effect of weather on soils and crops
2.6. Human caused climate change
2.7. Future climate change predictions
2.8. Impact of climate change on crop production
2.9. Sources of agriculture emissions
2.10. Potential for cropping systems to achieve net zero carbon emissions
2.11. Summary
2.12. Key points
3. Soil health and management
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Soil formation
3.3. Soil composition and properties
3.4. Farming and managing different soil types
3.5. Soil fertility and productivity
3.6. Evaluating soil health on the farm
3.7. Key points
4. Fertilisers and manures
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Crop nutrient requirements
4.3. Major nutrients
4.4. Micronutrients (trace elements)
4.5. Assessment of soil nutrient content
4.6. Assessment of crop nutrient content
4.7. Terminology and formulation of fertiliser products
4.8. Fertiliser products and nutrient supply
4.9. Fertilisers and nutrient supply
4.10. Fluid (liquid) fertilisers
4.11. Application of fertilisers
4.12. Organic materials
4.13. Fertilisers, organic materials and the environment
4.14. Key points
5. Weeds of farm crops
5.1. The impact of weeds
5.2. Weed types and identification
5.3. Management of weeds: general
5.4. Herbicide resistance
5.5. Spraying with herbicides: precautions
5.6. Key points
6. Diseases of farm crops
6.1. Introduction to plant diseases and disorders
6.2. Disease symptoms
6.3. Some important types of plant pathogens
6.4. Abiotic disorders
6.5. The control of plant diseases
6.6. Fungicide resistance
6.7. Management of specific diseases of field crops
6.8. Key points
7. Pests
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Invertebrate pests
7.3. Vertebrate crop pests
7.4. Damage types
7.5. Integrated pest management (IPM)
7.6. Pesticide classification
7.7. Key points
8. Sustainable crop production
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Crop production techniques
8.3. Drivers of change in crop production
8.4. Whole farm approaches to sustainability
8.5. Key points
9. Precision crop production
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Obtaining georeferenced data
9.3. Storing and analysing georeferenced data
9.4. Using georeferenced data
9.5. Autonomous agriculture
9.6. Barriers to the adoption of precision farming
9.7. Key points
10. Organic crop husbandry
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Achieving organic status
10.3. Rotations
10.4. Soil and plant nutrition
10.5. Weed control
10.6. Disease control
10.7. Pest control
10.8. Crop management examples
10.9. Other systems
10.10. Organic farming and the environment
10.11. Key points
11. Plant breeding and seed production
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Plant breeding methods
11.3. Plant breeding targets
11.4. Seed quality
11.5. Breeding for organic, agroecology and regenerative agriculture
11.6. Key points
12. World cropping systems
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Global demand
12.3. Efficiency of production
12.4. Global trends
12.5. Climatic requirements
12.6. Land use
12.7. Threats to global production - losses to yield attainment
12.8. Post-harvest losses
12.9. Most important crops grown globally
12.10. Pulses: crops grown primarily for protein
12.11. Oil seeds: crops grown primarily for oil
12.12. Crops grown primarily for export: cash crops
12.13. Future challenges for global crop production
12.14. Key points
13. Cereals
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Wheat
13.3. Durum wheat
13.4. Barley
13.5. Oats
13.6. Rye
13.7. Triticale
13.8. Maize for grain
13.9. Key points
14. Oilseeds and pulses
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Oilseed rape
14.3. Linseed
14.4. Sunflowers
14.5. Soya beans
14.6. Combinable pulses
14.7. Key points
15. Root crops
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Potatoes
15.3. Sugar beet
15.4. Key points
16. Energy and industrial crops
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Energy crops
16.3. Industrial crops
16.4. Key points
17. Fresh produce crops
17.1. Growing fresh produce crops
17.2. Fresh peas
17.3. Broad beans
17.4. Green beans
17.5. Lettuce
17.6. Baby leaves and herbs
17.7. Cabbages
17.8. Broccoli
17.9. Cauliflowers
17.10. Brussels sprouts
17.11. Bulb onions
17.12. Leeks
17.13. Carrots
17.14. Edible swede and turnips
17.15. Strawberries
17.16. Key points
18. Arable forage crops
18.1. Crops grown for ensiling
18.2. Root crops grown for lifting and storage or grazing in-situ
18.3. Leafy crops grown for grazing
18.4. Key points
19. Introduction to grass production/characteristics of grassland and the important species
19.1. Types of grassland
19.2. The nutritive value of grassland herbage
19.3. Identification of grasses
19.4. Identification of legumes
19.5. Grasses of economic importance
19.6. Forage legumes of economic importance
19.7. Herbs
19.8. Grass and legume seed mixtures
19.9. Key points
20. Establishing and improving grassland
20.1. Establishing leys
20.2. Grassland improvement and renovation
20.3. Improving a sward by changing the management
20.4. Improving a sward by renovation
20.5. Fertilisers and manures for grassland
20.6. Irrigation of grassland
20.7. Key points
21. Grazing management
21.1. Introduction
21.2. Stocking rate
21.3. Principles of grazing management
21.4. Grazing systems
21.5. Strategies to minimise parasitism at grass
21.6. Measuring and setting targets for grassland production and output from grassland
21.7. Future developments
21.8. Key points
22. Conservation of grass and forage crops
22.1. Introduction
22.2. The silage-making process
22.3. Crops for silage making
22.4. Factors affecting silage fermentation
22.5. Hay
22.6. Green-crop drying
22.7. Key points
Appendices
Index

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