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Six chemicals that changed agriculture

Zimdahl, Robert L.,

Six chemicals that changed agriculture

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Six chemicals that changed agricultureRobert L. Zimdahl.
Author:	Zimdahl, Robert L.,
Published:	Amsterdam :Academic Press,2015.
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Agricultural chemicals.
Online resource:	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128005613
ISBN:	9780128006177 (electronic bk.)

Six chemicals that changed agriculture
Zimdahl, Robert L.,

Six chemicals that changed agriculture[electronic resource] /Robert L. Zimdahl. - Amsterdam :Academic Press,2015. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Introduction -- The characteristics of modern agriculture enabled by chemicals -- Lime : A soil amendment -- Nitrogen -- Phosphorus -- 2, 4-D : An herbicide -- DDT : An insecticide -- Recombinant DNA -- Antibiotics -- Conclusion.

Six Chemicals That Changed Agriculture is a scientific look at how the chemicals used in today's food production were developed, evaluated, and came to be in wide-spread use. From fertilizers to pest management, antibiotics to DNA, chemicals have transformed the way our food is grown, protected, and processed. Agriculture is the world's most important environment interaction, the essential human activity, and an increasingly controversial activity because of its use and presumed misuse of chemistry. The major characteristics of US agriculture for at least the last six decades have been rising productivity, declining number of mid-size farms, increasing farm size, an increasing percentage of farm production on fewer, large farms, increasing dependence of chemical technology and more developmental research being done by the agricultural chemical industry rather than by independent land-grant universities. Another equally important feature of modern agriculture is wide-spread suspicion of its technology by the public. The book will recount examples of this suspicion related to specific chemicals and present the essence of the suspicion and its results.

ISBN: 9780128006177 (electronic bk.)

LCCN: 2015937300Subjects--Topical Terms:

333265
Agricultural chemicals.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: S585

Dewey Class. No.: 630.24

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