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Farming is a complex job with many unique challenges, but can also be a rich and rewarding career that is full of opportunities. Following the author's Farm Business Management series, this new textbook takes the core principles and techniques and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623157944Author Elena R SantogadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 264mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904846222Author Vince CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee BooksWeight(grams) 88gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

NO description availableBook InformationISBN 9780748765744Author Ronald RamharacksinghPage Count 64Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 190mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963810984Author Joel SalatinFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Polyface, IncorporatedPublisher Polyface, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

Cultivated farming advice.Cato (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234-149 BC) of Tusculum, statesman and soldier, was the first important writer in Latin prose. His speeches, works on jurisprudence and the art of war, his precepts to his son on various...

The first section of this book offers an insight into the significance of the apple in history. It then gives a botanical overview of the fruit and explains how to plant, nurture and cultivate your own apple harvest. The directory section features a...

A comprehensive how-to manual of Polyface Farm's signature designs--with tips, tricks, and a half century of lessons learned through trial and error Have you wondered how to build the Polyface broiler shelter, or the dolly to move it, or an Eggmobile,...

Farming - whether domestic crops, forestry, fish or livestock - is one of the pillars of human civilization, dating back to the early settlements of Neolithic times. Today, approximately one billion people work the land, providing food and other products...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911311303Author Hensel JuliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Halcyon House PublishersPublisher Acres USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904846192Author David AstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee Books

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrots...

Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world's leading ethnobotanists argue that our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants...

In its short lifetime of 100 years, the crofting system of landholding has had profound effects upon Scotland. In this book, the author presents vivid descriptions of crofting life, past and present, in a deeply-researched social history.About the...

Discover how easy it is to make fresh dairy products at home! You don't need a commercial kitchen or specialty ingredients to whip up your own cheeses, yogurts, and spreads. With simple step-by-step instructions that don't require complicated aging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534087Author Bruce PascoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307452061Author Kathe LisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 193mm *...

Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711038585Author Ben PhilipsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

"The story of strenuous voluntary work to restore a derelict hill farm - helping young people find the sense of achievement and self respect their school days often failed to provide." "Our starting point was the common failure of academic...

The Book of Cheese is the first book of its kind to be organized not by country, milk type, or any other technical classification. Instead, it maps the world of cheese using nine familiar favourites, what author Liz Thorpe calls the Gateway Cheeses. Liz...

Modern Land Drainage 2nd edition is a fully revised and updated edition of the 2004 edition. Modern Land Drainage describes traditional drainage formulas (Hooghoudt, Kirkham, Donnan, Ernst, Glover-Dumm) for rainfed agriculture in the humid temperature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849022583Author Henry StephensFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 1210gDimensions(mm)...

INTRODUCTION TO VETERINARY SCIENCE, Third Edition, provides a solid foundation in this dynamic field for those studying animal and veterinary sciences or preparing for careers as veterinary assistants or technicians. The text begins with an overview of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904846215Author Louis SnelgroveFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Keeping Bees and Making Honey is a stunning, comprehensive and attractive lifestyle guide to beekeeping packed with images, information, practical advice, useful resources and recipes. Whether you have a tiny balcony or acres of land; live in the middle...

A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt. Throughout history, orchards have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433844Author L. L. LangstrothFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 458g

Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803692470Author Bryan EdgleyFormat HardbackImprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation Publishing

Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486436098Author F H KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Here are two physicists looking over the fence of physics, getting thrilled by the life and growth of trees, taking an altogether different, exciting view of wood: trees produce wood for their own benefit. They do not live for the benefit of man who...

A range of tools, once familiar to the farmworker, gradually became obsolete during the twentieth century. This album describes these tools and the farming processes they performed in the period before the general dominance of the tractor and combine...

Containing 500 full color photographs and illustrations, The Bench Grafter's Handbook: Principles and Practice presents exhaustive information on all aspects of bench grafting. It details requirements of more than 200 temperate woody plant genera,...

A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service...

An understanding of the mineral nutrition of plants is of fundamental importance in both basic and applied plant sciences. The fourth edition of this book retains the aim of the first in presenting the principles of mineral nutrition in the light of...

How to create quality pasture from the soil up This 2nd edition, revised and completely updated by Jim Gerrish, offers down-to-earth, low cost tactics to create high-energy pasture that will reduce or eliminate expensive inputs or purchased feeds for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399966221Author Nic LampkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The Organic Research CentrePublisher The Organic Research CentreWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906852764Author Andy OfferFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Mosaique PressPublisher Mosaique Press