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Title: Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit by Carol Ekarius ISBN: 1-58017-162-1 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Resource
Comment: My brother gave this book to me for my birthday, and it has been great. We are new to farming, and it has helped us determine how to move forward, and to plan for our operation. We're retired, but we need this to pay some income, and that is what this book is all about, making money, but doing it so you don't screw up the land. The author has lots of excellent advice not only on caring for your animals, but also on direct marketing to get a bigger share of the consumer's dollar. She writes with a down to earth style that I really appreciate.
Rating: 2
Summary: Is This High School Biology???
Comment: I was looking for a substantial book about small-scale livestock farming, and instead I was treated to a very basic introduction to agriculture. This book would make a great high school agriculture text, but beyond that it falls short of providing any real, useful, institutional knowledge that I was looking for. For example, in the book the author reviews basic high biology concepts such as the water cycle, the food chain, and the energy pyramid. She also reminds readers how to round up or round down. And if that were not insulting enough, she then informs readers that to be a successful farmer, you must dress like a farmer; "clean bib overalls and a straw hat, or a plaid shirt, jeans, and a cowboy hat." Give me a break. Again, if you want a simplistic, new age, farming book of little practical use by an author who has less than a decade of farming experience, this book is for you. If you want a no-frills, no-fluff, useful, dirt under your nails, John Deere farmer kind of a book, I would look elsewhere and I would suggest Gene Logsdon's The Contrary Farmer.
Rating: 4
Summary: Inspiring .....
Comment: I got this book only a few months ago and I must say it has been a wealth of information. I learned about toxic plants, diseases, grazing management, budgeting your opperation effiecently, and also info on different feeding scales of species. Not to mention everything on this book but it has been an eye opening experience to learn from this knowledge and then apply it to my life.
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Title: Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle by Heather Smith Thomas ISBN: 1580173276 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Making Your Small Farm Profitable by Ron Macher, Howard W., Jr. Kerr ISBN: 1580171613 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach by Karl Schwenke, Ben Watson ISBN: 0882666428 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Five Acres and Independence by Maurice G. Kains ISBN: 0486209741 Publisher: Dover Pubns List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise by Joel Salatin, Allan Nation ISBN: 0963810928 Publisher: Polyface Inc Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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