Conservation tillage and cropping innovation : constructing the new culture of agriculture / C. Milton Coughenour, Shankariah Chamala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coughenour, C. Milton

Contributor:

Chamala, Shankariah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservation tillage.

Agricultural innovations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ames : Iowa State University Press, 2000.

Summary:

A sociological study of changing farming methods, Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation investigates those techniques that have gradually continued to replace the plow culture. With thorough documentation of the conservation tillage and cropping revolution, this book features chapters on: The Social Construction of Innovative Networks; Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension; The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future.

Contents:

2 Conceptualizing System Innovation: Social Construction of Conservation Tillage and Cropping 15

3 Plow Culture in the United States and Australia 45

4 Farming in the 1950s: The Driving Forces 65

5 The Social Construction of Innovative Networks 93

6 Social Construction of New Tillage and Cropping Systems in the United States 135

7 The Construction of New Tillage Systems in Australia 181

8 The Spread of Conservation Tillage in Kentucky and Queensland 223

9 Reconstructing the Farm Landscape: The Spread of Conservation Tillage in the United States 255

10 Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension 297

11 The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index.

ISBN:

0813819474

OCLC:

44952112