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Lockhart and Wiseman’s Crop Husbandry Including Grassland

  • 10th Edition - October 22, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Alison Samuel, Louisa Dines, Steve Finch, Gerry P. Lane
  • Language: English

Lockhart and Wiseman’s Crop Husbandry Including Grassland, Tenth Edition delivers the latest developments in crop varieties, crop protection products and environmental scheme… Read more

Description

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.

Key features

  • Features contributions from leading experts that are specifically structured to help students see the whole picture of crop husbandry
  • Presents a fully revised and updated resource that reflect the latest scientific advances and current approaches
  • Includes expanded coverage on World Agricultural Systems
  • Provides a summary of recommended websites and references for expanded knowledge

Readership

This hybrid textbook is a foundational textbook for agricultural students throughout the UK and Europe, as well as a core reference for professional practitioners. Students and practitioners outside the UK and Europe seeking global insights

Table of contents

1. Plants

2. Climate and weather

3. Soil health and management

4. Fertilisers and manures

5. Weeds

6. Diseases

7. Pests

8. Sustainable Crop Production Techniques

9. Precision crop production

10. Organic Crop Husbandry

11. Principles of plant breeding, seed production and certification

12. World Agricultural Systems

13. Cereals

14. Oilseeds and Pulse crops

15. Root Crops

16. Energy and industrial crops

17. Fresh produce

18. Arable forage crops

19. Introduction to grass production

20. Establishing and improving grassland

21. Grazing management

22. Conservation of grass and forage crops

Product details

  • Edition: 10
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 29, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Alison Samuel

Alison worked as an agronomist in South West England for many years before starting to teach crop production. She was a senior lecturer at several colleges and universities including the Royal Agricultural University and Plymouth University (Seale-Hayne campus) lecturing to diploma, degree and masters course students as well as on professional courses. Specialist crop husbandry subjects included soil science, crop production and protection as well as organic and sustainable farming systems. She was a contributing author to the 9th edition and now leads this 10th edition.
Affiliations and expertise
Previously Senior Associate Lecturer, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

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Louisa Dines

Following a 12-year career advising farmers on all aspects of crop production Louisa has held an academic role as Senior Lecturer in Agronomy at Harper Adams University for the past 11 years. Louisa leads on a number of crop production and crop protection related modules to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and is also responsible for management of the BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection, the statutory qualification required by practitioners in the industry, also sitting on the BASIS Education and Training committee.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer in Agronomy, Harper Adams University – HAU; Senior Lecturer in Agronomy, Harper Adams University – HAU, UK

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Steve Finch

Steve Finch, is Principal Lecturer in Crop Production at the Royal Agricultural University, UK
Affiliations and expertise
Royal Agricultural College, UK

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Gerry P. Lane

Gerry P. Lane was formerly a Principal Lecturer at the Royal Agricultural University, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Fromerly Principal Lecturer, Royal Agricultural College, UK

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