Agriculture Animal Husbandry category: 3344 books
by Isabella Beeton
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on farm crops, being an encyclopedia of common crops with information on cultivation, history, varieties, land preparation, weeding, propagation, pests and diseases, harrowing, and much more besides. Although old, the information contained within...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book presents a compilation of the latest findings from reputed researchers around the globe, covering in detail climate change and its effects on sheep production. In the current global climate change scenario, information related to its impact on livestock agriculture is lacking.
The...
Farming for the Long Haul
Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
It’s all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today’s most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that transportation...
by P. W. West
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This book describes the scientific principles that are used throughout the world to ensure the rapid, healthy growth of forest plantations. As the population of the world increases so does the amount of wood people use. Large areas of natural forests are being cleared every year and converted to other...
Adjuvants and Agrochemicals
Volume 2: Recent Development, Application, and Bibliography of Agro-Adjuvants
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Studies of Adjuvants involve many scientific fields from basic research of the chemistry, through investigations into physiological effects and environmental impact, to mixture formulation and field use. These important areas are illustrated in these two volumes, which are contributions from the First...
by E. R. Root
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Taken from the sixty-fifth annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, this is an analysis of the importance of honey in the early twentieth century. It discusses how the demand for honey sharply increased in Europe with the outbreak of the First World War, and explores what this...
Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 2:
Food, Health, and Nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 2: Food, Health, and Nutrition addresses some of the most important topics facing horticulture around the world today. This volume, part of the two-volume compendium, focuses on research trends in sustainable horticulture that include postharvest management and processed...
Vegetation and Soils
A World Picture
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Vegetation and Soils is an introduction to the study of vegetation and soil distribution. In this accessible work, S. R. Eyre describes the distributions of these two important elements in the landscape. The book progresses regionally, and the land areas of the earth are subdivided according to the...
Gardens of Prehistory
The Archaeology of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The prehistoric agricultural systems of the New World provided the foundations for a diverse set of complex social developments ranging from the puebloan societies of the American Southwest to the archaic state polities of Mesoamerica and the Andean region. From the tropical forests of Central America...
Raise
What 4-H Teaches Seven Million Kids and How Its Lessons Could Change Food and Farming Forever
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
When city-dwelling journalist Kiera Butler visits a county fair for the first time, she is captivated by the white-uniformed members of the 4-H club and their perfectly groomed animals. She sets off on a search for a "real" 4-H’er, a hypothetical wholesome youth whom she imagines wearing...
The Year-Round Hoophouse
Polytunnels for All Seasons and All Climates
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
**Design and build a hoophouse or polytunnel, and grow abundant produce year-round in any climate **
Growing in hoophouses – also known as high tunnels or polytunnels – reduces the impact of an increasingly unpredictable climate on crops, mitigates soil erosion, extends the growing season...
Adjuvants and Agrochemicals
Volume 1: Mode Of Action and Physiological Activity
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Studies of Adjuvants involve many scientific fields from basic research of the chemistry, through investigations into physiological effects and environmental impact, to mixture formulation and field use. These important areas are illustrated in these two volumes, which are contributions from the First...
by Jack E. Rechcigl
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The use of chemicals in agriculture and home gardens has become an area of concern due to improper use and negative environmental effects. Environmentally Safe Approaches to Crop Disease Control addresses alternative approaches for managing crop diseases. It gives a balanced overview of state-of-the-art environmentally safe approaches to crop disease control and discusses the latest trends.
by Gangstad
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
It is the purpose of this volume to survey and assess the management problems of recreation waters and to present case problems from the field in which the technical data, published literature, and the operations mechanics are given in sufficient detail to provide a format for practical analysis and...