Plant nutrition and soil fertility manual /
As soil and crop management procedures have become more complex, County Agricultural Agents, farm advisors, consultants, and fertilizer and chemical dealers have had to specialize in some aspect of soil fertility and crop nutrition management procedures, limiting their ability to provide a range of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Soil fertility principles
- Plant nutrition principles
- The plant root
- How to be a diagnostician
- Soil taxonomy, horizontal characteristics, and clay minerals
- Physical properties of soils
- Physiochemical properties of soil
- Soil pH. Its determination and interpretation
- Soil organic matter
- Major essential plant elements
- Micronutrients considered essential to plants
- Elements considered beneficial to plants
- Elements considered toxic to plants
- Trace elements found in plants
- Soil testing
- Plant analysis and tissue testing
- Lime and liming materials
- Inorganic chemical fertilizers and their properties
- Organic fertilizers and their properties
- Fertilizer placement
- Soil water, irrigation, and water quality
- Hydroponics
- Soilless rooting and/or growing media
- Organic farming/gardening
- Weather and climatic conditions
- Best management practices (BMPs).