Agronomic Handbook. Management of Crops, Soils, and Their Fertility
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Author(s): J. B. Jones Jr.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0849308976
Format: hardback
450pp
Price: $99.95
Review Date: 12 December 2002
Review: Agronomy deals with the theory and practice of field crop production and management. The author’s objective in this handbook was to cover a full range of crops and soils so that readers would need only to refer to one book. The book is divided into 5 parts (a 6th one covers references and appendices). Part 1 of nearly half the book, covers the wide variety of crops and their care; grain crops, nut, bean and oil crops, cotton and sugar beat. The rest of the book covers soils, with Part 2 devoted to classifications and characteristics, Part 3 to properties, Part 4 to analysis and treatment and Part 5 to diagnostic procedures and analysis. The book contains a wide range of fundamental information with a large amount of tabular detail.