Soil Essentials is a practical reference for farmers and land managers covering soil issues commonly encountered at the farm level. Written in a straightforward style, it explains the principles of soil management and the interpretation of soil tests, and how to use this information to address long-term soil and enterprise viability. This book demonstrates how minerals, trace elements, organic matter, soil organisms and fertilisers affect soil, plant and animal health. It shows how to recognise soil decline, and how to repair soils affected by nutrient imbalances, depleted soil microbiology, soil erosion, compaction, structural decline, soil sodicity and salinity. The major problem-soils - sodic soils, light sandy soils, heavy clay soils and acid sulphate soils - are all examined. With this information, farmers and land managers will be able to consider the costs and financial benefits of good soil management.
- ISBN10 6613155020
- ISBN13 9786613155023
- Publish Date 7 March 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher CSIRO Publishing
- Imprint Landlinks Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 191
- Language English