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1 online resource (542 pages) |
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""SOIL AND WATER QUALITY""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""BASIC CONCEPTS""; ""Soil Quality""; ""Pollution Prevention""; ""Profitability and Productivity""; ""THE AGENDA""; ""Enhancing Soil Quality""; ""Efficient Use of Inputs""; ""Resisting Erosion and Runoff""; ""Field and Landscape Buffer Zones""; ""IMPLEMENTING THE AGENDA""; ""Problem Areas, Problem Farms""; ""Problem Areas""; ""Problem Farms""; ""Farming Systems""; ""Better Tools and Information""; ""Better Management Tools""; ""Better Information""; ""New Cropping Systems"" |
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""Criteria and Standards""""INFLUENCING PRODUCERS' DECISIONS""; ""Barriers Imposed by Price and Supply Control""; ""Soil and Water Quality as Policy Objectives""; ""Policy Instruments""; ""Research Applications""; ""Technical Assistance""; ""Long-Term Easements""; ""Nonvoluntary Change""; ""Rights and Responsibilities""; ""PART ONE""; ""1 Soil and Water Quality: New Problems, New Solutions""; ""SOIL AND WATER QUALITY PROBLEMS""; ""Soil Quality""; ""Water Quality""; ""Surface Water Quality""; ""Groundwater Quality""; ""Environmental Risks""; ""SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS"" |
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""Factors Influencing Solutions""""State and Local Government Policies""; ""Characteristics of the Agricultural Sector""; ""TIME TO MOVE AHEAD""; ""2 Opportunities to Improve Soil and Water Quality""; ""CONSERVING AND ENHANCING SOIL QUALITY""; ""Defining Soil Quality""; ""Importance of Soil Quality""; ""Agricultural Productivity""; ""Water Quality""; ""Global Climate""; ""Soil Policy Goals""; ""Erosion Control Alone is Not Sufficient""; ""Soil Degradation as an Environmental Problem""; ""Measurement of Soil Quality""; ""National-Level Assessments of Soil Quality"" |
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""Assess Currently Available Data""""Soil Management at the Farm Level""; ""Soil Quality Thresholds""; ""Soil-Specific Management""; ""Promise of New Technology""; ""Better Use of Available Information""; ""INCREASING INPUT USE EFFICIENCIES""; ""Mass Balance between Inputs and Outputs""; ""Increased Input Efficiency""; ""Improving Nitrogen Management""; ""Reduction of Residual Nitrogen in the Farming System""; ""Nitrogen Mass Balances""; ""Refining Fertilizer Recommendations""; ""Realistic Yield Goals""; ""Accounting for All Sources of Nitrogen"" |
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""Synchronizing Fertilizer Applications with Crop Needs""""New and Improved Tools""; ""Improving Phosphorus Management""; ""Phosphorus Cycle""; ""Transport Processes""; ""Phosphorus Mass Balance""; ""Control Phosphorus Buildup in Soil""; ""Thresholds for Phosphorus Levels in Soil""; ""Improving Manure Management""; ""Nutrient Value of Manures""; ""Manure Is an Important Source of Water Pollution""; ""Obstacles to Improving Manure Management""; ""Livestock Concentration""; ""Nitrogen and Phosphorus Buildup after Repeated Applications""; ""High Capital Costs"" |
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""Special Emphasis on Manure Management"" |
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Print version record |
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Soil management -- United States
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Soils -- Quality -- United States
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Water quality management -- United States
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Sediment control -- United States
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Agricultural ecology -- United States
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Agricultural ecology
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Sediment control
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Soil management
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Soils -- Quality
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Water quality management
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309585712 |
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0309585716 |
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