10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRASH FARMING»
Discover the use of
trash farming in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
trash farming and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Canadian Prairies: A History
In the longer term, one crucial innovation was 'stubble-mulch,' often known by the
term 'trash farming,' in which weeds were uprooted early but left on the surface of
the fallow to prevent wind erosion. Another was the development of ...
2
Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction
One notable counter-strategy was the idea of 'trash farming', advanced by an
iconoclastic American farmer. In 1943, Edward Faulkner published Plowman's
Folly where he explained his ideas about how to reverse the damages to the soil
that ...
Tania Lewis, Emily Potter, 2013
From now on its trash farming.” Rod Copps' weekly column in the Henley Herald '
The Latest Dirt on Dirt Farming' talked at length about 'trash farming'. Many of the
old time farmers were annoyed by Copps' efforts to promote new ideas, but ...
4
Soil Fertility Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
Various conservation tillage practices (reduced, minimum, or no till), strip farming,
mulching, trash farming, direct drill planting and plough planting are also
reported to contribute to increased soil moisture available for effective use by
crops.
W. Graeme Donovan, Frank Casey, 1998
5
Soil and Water Conservation in Semi-arid Areas
4.2 BIOLOGICAL SOIL CONSERVATION 4.2.1 Conservation Tillage This
umbrella term can include reduced tillage, minimum tillage, no-till, direct drill,
mulch tillage, stubble-mulch farming, trash farming, strip tillage, plough-plant (for
details ...
6
Dictionnary of Agricultural Engineering & Technology Part Ix ...
... 2041 Trapezoidal Weir, 2041 Trash, 2041 Trash Can, 2041 Trash Farming,
2041 Trash Gate, 2041 Trash Guard, 2041 Trash Mulcher, 2041 Trash Rack,
2041 Trash Rolls, 2041-42 Trash Screen, 2042 Trash Shield, 2042 Trashy
Cultivation, ...
7
The Prairie West: Historical Readings
Sum- merfallowing to conserve moisture was practiced more extensively,28 but
the traditional dry farming techniques which had contributed to wind erosion gave
way to experiments with strip farming and later to 'trash farming' (leaving a ...
R. Douglas Francis, Howard Palmer, 1992
8
A Farm in the Firelands of Ohio: Memories of the Post-Civil ...
His arguments for ground cover and for trash-farming seem to be sound. But he
overlooks giving credit where credit is due. And that is to some of the old-timers.
On the ground cover question, we planted pumpkins in the cornfields, when I was
...
Dayton Albert Williams, Anne Southworth McFarland, 2004
9
A Companion to Colonial America
European travelers condemned the seeming disorder and sloppiness of
American agriculture, with its piles of brush and rotting stumps, but it may have
had the soil-conserving functions of modern “trash farming” (Miller, 1986; Brush,
1986).
10
Unnamed Country: The Struggle for a Canadian Prairie Fiction
To correct the errors of past practices of settlement and cultivation, it was
necessary to relocate farmers, returning some land to grass and creating
community pastures, to develop farming methods such as strip farming and "trash
farming" to ...
