Agronomy of Grassland Systems [Paperback]

Revised edition, with an increased emphasis on systems, reflects current environmental and ethical concerns.The challenges facing grassland agronomists are becoming increasingly complex, with environmental and ethical issues assuming a greater significance alongside more conventional technical aspects. Agronomists need to be equipped to address these new problems, requiring skills and understanding not found within traditional agronomy texts. This new edition of Agronomy of Grassland Systems addresses the need for a different approach, providing novel and provocative material to instruct, stimulate and enthuse the reader.The challenges facing grassland agronomists are becoming increasingly complex, with environmental and ethical issues assuming a greater significance alongside more conventional technical aspects. Agronomists need to be equipped to address these new problems, requiring skills and understanding not found within traditional agronomy texts. This new edition of Agronomy of Grassland Systems addresses the need for a different approach, providing novel and provocative material to instruct, stimulate and enthuse the reader.The challenges facing grassland agronomists are becoming increasingly complex, with environmental and ethical issues assuming a greater significance alongside more conventional technical aspects. This new expanded edition, with an increased emphasis on systems thinking, has been revised to reflect current concerns, knowledge and practice. As such it addresses the need for a different approach to grassland agronomy, providing novel and provocative material to instruct, stimulate and enthuse the reader.Preface; 1. Overview: perspectives on grassland systems; 2. The emergence of grassland systems; 3. Generation; 4. Vegetative growth; 5. Flowering and seed production; 6. Mineral nutrition; 7. Herbage quality and animal intake; 8. Grassland - animal interactions and management; 9. Grassland systems design; References; Index. This view of grasslÓ=