Agriculture Animal Husbandry category: 3344 books
Australian Barleys
Identification of Varieties, Grain Defects and Foreign Seeds
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1984
This handbook provides a basis for checking the range of quality factors that can be judged by on-the-spot examination. When barley is being received at the silo or the malt-house, it is impractical and unnecessary to use the range of precise laboratory methods devised for quality testing, although these...
by Richard P. Pohanish
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
This reference handbook provides fully updated chemical, regulatory, health, and safety information on nearly 800 pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. The clear, consistent and comprehensive presentation of information makes Sittig's an essential reference for a wide audience including first...
Environmental Deterioration and Human Health
Natural and anthropogenic determinants
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book discusses the natural and anthropogenic determinants of the environment and their impact on human health. It throws light on the perspectives of climate change with case studies from Australia, India, Italy, and Latin America. Themes covered are ecology of antibiotic resistant microorganisms,...
Homeopathy for the Herd
A Farmer's Guide to Low-Cost, Non-Toxic Veterinary Care of Cattle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Subtitled A Farmer’s Guide to Low-Cost, Non-Toxic Veterinary Cattle Care, this new information-packed book by Acres U.S.A.’s Natural Vet will tell you what you need to know to get started in the use of homeopathic medicines with cows. Using case studies and practical examples from both dairy...
by Hubert J. Karreman, V.M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Part of the joy and wonder of farming lies in the changing of the seasons: planting, calving, tilling, milking, harvest . . . As the seasons pass, any dairy or cattle operation will see its share of problems crop up as well, many with seasonal regularity. Acclaimed veterinarian Hubert Karreman calls...
How to Build Chicken Coops
Everything You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
**This revised and expanded edition of How to Build Chicken Coops—one of the best-selling titles in Voyageur's successful series licensed by Future Farmers of America (FFA)—provides complete and easy-to-follow instructions on building a coop, including 16 pages of new content.
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by Ralph L. Watts
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
“A Fertility Program for Growing Vegetables” is a classic guide to growing vegetables focusing on fertilisers. It looks at what fertilisers should be used in which circumstances, offering advice and scientific information for the farmer or Gardner. Although old, this volume contains timeless information...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The current volume, "Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the Middle-East" brings together chapters on selected, unique medicinal plants of this region, known to man since biblical times. Written by leading researchers and scientists, this volume covers both domesticated crops and wild plants...
Green Pesticides Handbook
Essential Oils for Pest Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Green pesticides, also called ecological pesticides, are pesticides derived from organic sources which are considered environmentally friendly and are causing less harm to human and animal health and to habitats and the ecosystem. Essential oils based insecticides started have amazing features. This...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 2
Diseases, pests, food and other uses
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...
Sexual Selection
Perspectives and Models from the Neotropics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Sexual Selection: Perspectives and Models from the Neotropics presents new sexual selection research based upon neotropical species. As neotropical regions are destroyed at an alarming rate, with an estimated 140 species of rainforest plants and animals going extinct every day, it is important to...
by Arthur Glyn Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This classic book contains a wealth of information on the uses and management of camels, and will be an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Preface: 'The following pages are principally the result of sixteen years' practical observation and experience of...
Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Analysis of distribution, abundance and species richness in R and BUGS
Volume 1:Prelude and Static Models
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Distribution, Abundance, Species Richness offers a new synthesis of the state-of-the-art of hierarchical models for plant and animal distribution, abundance, and community characteristics such as species richness using data collected in metapopulation designs....
by William J Stadelman, Debbie Newkirk, Lynne Newby
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Here is the complete source of information on egg handling, processing, and utilization. Egg Science and Technology, Fourth Edition covers all aspects of grading, packaging, and merchandising of shell eggs. Full of the information necessary to stay current in the field, Egg Science and Technology...