tion and Soil Fertility Manual, Second Edition

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Review ------ Praise for the First Edition "This book has the admirable quality of being both organized to facilitate rapid look-up of information and being written in a readable style." ―The Growing EDGE (out of print) Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) About the Author ---------------- Dr. J. Benton Jones has written extensively on the topics of soil fertility and tion over his professional career. After obtaining a B.S. degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Illinois, he served on active duty in the U.S. Navy for two years. After discharge from active duty, he entered graduate school, obtaining M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in agronomy. For 10 years, Dr. Jones held the position as research professor at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) in Wooster. During this time, his research activities focused on the relationship between soil fertility and tion. In 1967, he established the Ohio Analysis Laboratory. Joining the University of Georgia faculty in 1968, Dr. Jones designed and had built the Soil and Analysis Service Laboratory building for the Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, serving as its Director for 4 years. During the period from 1972 and his retirement in 1989, Dr. Jones held various research and administrative positions at the University of Georgia. Following retirement, he and a colleague established Micro-Macro Laboratory in Athens, Georgia, a laboratory providing analytical services for the assay of soils and tissues as well as water, fertilizers, and other similar agricultural substances. Dr. Jones was the first President of the Soil and Analysis Council and then served as its Secretary-Treasurer for a number of years. He established two international scientific journals, Communications in Soil Science and Analysis and the Journal of tion, serving as their Executive Editors during the early years of publication. Dr. Jones is considered an authority on applied physiology and the use of analytical methods for assessing the ent element status of rooting media and s as a means for ensuring ent element sufficiency in both soil and soilless crop production settings. Read more ( javascript:void(0) )