Agriculture & Farming

Divided into four sections covering anatomy in relation to crop management, anatomical descriptions of the major crop plants, anatomical changes in adaptation to environments and the link between anatomy and productivity, this book provides a comprehensive source of crop plant anatomy information.

Small-scale pig keeping is expanding, not only in the countryside but also in urban areas. However, at the outset the prospect of owning pigs can be frightening for the uninitiated. This title guides the reader through the day-to-day routine of looking after pigs and provides essential information.

Manipulation of the microbial gut content of farmed fishes and crustaceans can have a marked effect on their general health, growth, and quality.

This book reviews up-to-date literature on camel meat and meat products, carcass and meat quality characteristics, muscle structure, post-mortem analysis and the nutritive value to humans. A comparatively small component of global meat consumption, camel meat has the potential to undergo an explosion of production worldwide.

Entertaining, informative, and packed with unusual facts. Illustrated in color throughout.

Shows smallholders how to deal with the various pests that are capable of decimating crops, degrading pasture, stealing produce, contaminating animal feed and killing valuable livestock. This book provides the smallholder with the knowledge and the information about the skills to meet this challenge in an effective and humane way.

A Color Atlas of Farm Animal Dermatology is an essential reference for veterinary dermatologists, practitioners, and students alike. Emphasizing recognition and diagnosis, the book combines over 600 color photographs with clear and concise text highlighting clinical features, differentials, and diagnostic information for each disease.

Lameness is the third economically important disease affecting cattle. The responsibility for dealing with it can fall on everyone involved in the industry, from the stock person right through to the veterinary surgeon. This book is intended for those involved in the practical health care of cattle.

In The John Deere Century, acclaimed author and photographer Randy Leffingwell uses his unique brand of storytelling--alongside a wealth of photographs, both modern and vintage--to chronicle the company and the tractors that have carried the distinctive green and yellow livery for the past century. Iconic ...

Includes information on a wide range of tools and equipment, from compact tractors to chainsaws and from winches to torque wrenches.

Contains reports on: male reproduction; ovarian function including follicular development and oocyte-cumulus cell function; neuroendocrinology; corpus luteum function; reproductive management; reproductive function of deer, buffalo, yaks and camelids; embryo technologies; embryo gene expression; and, fetal-maternal interactions.

Aimed at those interested in small-scale poultry keeping and, despite having only a small amount of space at their disposal, want to raise poultry on a non-commercial basis.

It's about being a vet. Not about what vets do but about how they do it. By using real vets' Personality Traits the author asks challenging questions about the Vet Profession - ultimately revealing what it's like to be a vet in the 21st Century. If you want to know: How to be a vet; What's it like being a vet? Do the right people become vets?

ReWild is about learning how to observe, connect and discover nature for yourself. This book will show you how to reconnect with your inner beast by immersing yourself in a world where the wild things are.