The frrst attempts to use physical methods in agriculture can be found
in nineteenth century as a necessary component of farm and food
machinery. There were mechanics, electricity and physical chemistry
that were the first physical disciplines used in agriculture and food
industry. In the same time period the studies on physical properties
of soils started to be one of main topics of soil science. The
twentieth century was a century of research on physical properties of
agromaterials. The physical properties of agromaterials have been
studied e. g. in the USA, where a big role has been played by ASAE
(1907), and in the Soviet Union where the special Institute of
Agrophysics was founded (1932) by Academician Ioffe. The ASAE's
activity was enlarged in 1960s and 1970s, especially with the role
playing by the Mohsenin's group and its followers. At that time the
Institute of Agrophysics of Polish Academy of Sciences was founded in
Lublin and conferences on physical methods in agriculture began to be
organised. The participants of the last conference - "Physical Methods
in Agriculture - Approach to Precision and Quality", held on August
27-30, 2001, have prepared the basis for this book. Part of the
conference participants decided to enlarge their conference papers to
be more general and more instructive in relation to further
development of the science. New papers prepared under this deciSion
were reviewed, discussed and revised, repeatedly, to be presented in
this book.
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9781461500858
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2020
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Springer
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Engelsk
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