Storey Publishing Spring 18 Catalog

SPRING 2018
NEW RELEASES
21
The essential guide to combating
drought, one of the most devastating
natural disasters for farmers and
ranchers
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Drought threatens our entire continent and much
of the world, but farmers can minimize its impact
by managing water properly
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Techniques and projects including cover cropping,
mulching, no-till practices, and developing reliable
water systems for animals
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Targets farms of all sizes, both small-scale
and large, that raise animals and/or crops
The Drought-Resilient Farm
Dale Strickler
Farmers and ranchers can do hundreds of things to reduce the impact when lessthan-optimal
rainfall affects soil, crops, livestock, and the farm or ranch ecosystem,
and they can efficiently conserve and use the water they do have.
Author Dale Strickler transformed his own drought-stricken family farm in Kansas
into a thriving, water-wise, and profitable enterprise, maximizing healthy cropland,
pasture, and water supply. Now he introduces readers to the same innovative
systems he has used. Ranging from simple, short-term projects such as installing
rain-collection ollas to long-term land-management planning strategies, Strickler’s
methods will show farmers how to get more water into the soil, keep it in the soil,
and help plants and livestock access it.
JUNE 2018
192 pages; 7 x 9
Full-color
Paper
$24.95 US / $37.95 CAN / £18.99 UK
ISBN 978-1-63586-002-3; No. 626002
Paperback
Dale Strickler is a leader in the soil health movement and an agronomist for
Green Cover Seed, the nation’s leading cover crop–specific seed company.
Strickler holds degrees in agronomy from Kansas State University and taught
agronomy at Cloud County Community College for 15 years. He worked as an
agronomist for Land O’Lakes, Star Seed, and Valent USA prior to working with
Green Cover Seed. He successfully farms and ranches cattle in Kansas, where
he uses fewer than 4 acre inches of water per year.
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHT
Compact Farms
ISBN 978-1-61212-594-7
No. 622594
See page 89