(Part 3) Best agriculture industry books according to redditors
We found 196 Reddit comments discussing the best agriculture industry books. We ranked the 73 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
54. Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
1 mention
Scribner Book Company
If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...
(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)
Medical:
Where there is no doctor
Where there is no dentist
Emergency War Surgery
The survival medicine handbook
Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine
Special Operations Medical Handbook
Food Production
Mini Farming
encyclopedia of country living
square foot gardening
Seed Saving
Storey’s Raising Rabbits
Meat Rabbits
Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step
Storey’s Chicken Book
Storey Dairy Goat
Storey Meat Goat
Storey Ducks
Storey’s Bees
Beekeepers Bible
bio-integrated farm
soil and water engineering
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Food Preservation and Cooking
Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing
Steve Rinella’s Small Game
Ball Home Preservation
Charcuterie
Root Cellaring
Art of Natural Cheesemaking
Mastering Artesian Cheese Making
American Farmstead Cheesemaking
Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse
Wild Fermentation
Art of Fermentation
Nose to Tail
Artisan Sourdough
Designing Great Beers
The Joy of Home Distilling
Foraging
Southeast Foraging
Boletes
Mushrooms of Carolinas
Mushrooms of Southeastern United States
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast
Tech
farm and workshop Welding
ultimate guide: plumbing
ultimate guide: wiring
ultimate guide: home repair
off grid solar
Woodworking
Timberframe Construction
Basic Lathework
How to Run A Lathe
Backyard Foundry
Sand Casting
Practical Casting
The Complete Metalsmith
Gears and Cutting Gears
Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment
Machinery’s Handbook
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
Electronics For Inventors
Basic Science
Chemistry
Organic Chem
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
Ham Radio
AARL Antenna Book
General Class Manual
Tech Class Manual
MISC
Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft
Contact!
Nuclear War Survival Skills
The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
That's a very interesting cage. I've read a book that touches on the matter, but his recommendation seems far too small for my mind. IIRC, a square foot per bird, always caged. What's your setup? I'd have to start very small time, to appease my wife.
Sussy wrote and published a book in 2016: Stress-Free Chicken Tractor Plans: An Easy to Follow, Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Own Chicken Tractors.
If you're raising it for small scale, you'll want to choose heritage breeds or locally adapted breeds. In the same way that the mealy, tasteless tomatoes you buy at the supermarket are bred for uniformity and transportability rather than flavor or adaptability to your local climate, "common" wheat and grain varieties are bred to withstand herbicides and pesticides, and to be productive in large monocultures. Small Scale Grain Raising is good. I haven't read The Organic Grain Grower but it looks good. If you're interested in corn, several homesteaders I know grow painted mountain corn and have only had great reviews.
Started reading this last night:
https://www.amazon.com/Napa-Last-Light-Americas-Calamity/dp/1501128450
I find both sides of the argument fascinating, although Conaway's bias becomes very evident within the first few pages. He certainly doesn't shy away from naming names. I'll report back.
Edit: finished the book. Great writing style and effectively tells the story (from his point of view of course). There is no denying the issues at hand, but his bias comes across as whiny at times and his messages and warnings overly dramatic. Also, commentary about those in his crosshairs goes a little too far. Talking about the Halls personal backgrounds for just a few pages shouldn't include how Craig suffered from seizures as a child which made playing sports tough. I hope some middle ground is achieved out there. If nothing else, this book has made me want to pay attention much more closely.
Sorry Elmer, not a site but probably THE best book on raising goats. Note they also have a meat goat version as well.
That said, here is a site but I'd refer to Storey's as the definitive guide.
never too high
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Tablet Mount: It was tricky finding one that could handle the width of the SP3. Most are catored to Ipad sizes and sp3s aspect ratio reduced my choices. I had to order 3 different ones to see which would work, good thing amazon has an awesome return policy :) http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00F3ZPUXO?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00
USB Hub: I was looking for a hub that had a switch and this fit the bill perfectly. Why a switch you ask? I like to game ocassionally, and I have the option to just turn the switch off if I want to shut the fan off instead of completely removing it. http://www.amazon.com/LOFTEK-4-Port-Compact-Built-Switches/dp/B00GLM5Z9M
3M double sided tape to mount the tablet mount onto the desk mount arm and to mount the usb 3 hub to the arm
Velcro cable tie straps to keep the cables neat
90 USB 3.0 extension cable - http://www.ebay.com/itm/131322523100
I think this exchange is useful, but it does lay bare some basic points of disagreement, so I'm not sure how much it's worth continuing. Just to respond to a few things.
Corporate agriculture is killing us and the planet. That's what automated food looks like. A lot of it is still done by factory farmers, most immigrants, for very low pay, who have to keep up with the pace of the equipment, and I agree that that's absolutely intolerable, but in my view the answer is not in this case 'let machines do it all instead'. Food is not an industrial product. Grown on the scale it is now requires poisoning the soil and the food itself, plus massive overuse of water among other things. I don't see how full automation would change any of that, and likely would make it even worse. See: Formerly Known As Food. I have no problem with tools that make farmwork easier (which is very labor intensive even on a small scale), but they have to be under the farmers' and consumers' control.
> Are you some sort of Luddite?
Yes, I am. I'm glad you asked. Luddites were the original 'workers against work' and we still have a lot to learn from what they did. Smashing the machines is a time honored anti-work tactic; I think full automation, of bullshit work anyway, has some potential but comes with a lot of risks. The key in any case is worker control.
Read Tomatoland to get an accurate picture of problems with current tomato farming practices. Good read.
I am a vegetarian - but not a moral vegetarian. I read a book Slaughterhouse and had absolutely no interest in eating meat after that. I promised myself I would never be preachy, and never tell anyone that I was vegetarian when coming over to someone's place or going out to dinner with people. I never want people to plan around my personal decision.
There's always enough to eat. There's always something on the menu at the restaurants. I wouldn't want anyone to go out of their way for my decision.
But to your question specifically, I don't think it's fair to expect a veg to make carnivores a meat meal-- because you can happily eat a vegetarian meal, whereas the other way doesn't work out as well. Just my thoughts.
Yeah, good luck with that!
For a lot of eye opening stuff about the farm bill, check out Food Fight.
There's so much lobbyist money in this, it's going to take something like Lessig's Change Congress to happen first before any meaningful changes to the farm bill can happen.
I found just the thing for you -- Storey's [Guide to Raising Llamas!] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1580173284/ref=sr_1_42_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1393715430&sr=8-42&keywords=llama&condition=collectible) The collectible paperback edition goes for $22.89, and is incredibly collectible on account of it having gone out of print ages ago. (1997, to be exact.)
But wait, there's more! Not only does the $22.89 price tag start with "22," there are more deuces hidden in there -- add the 8 and the 9 for 89 cents and we get 17. Add the 1 and 7 to reduce this to a single digit, 8...and what, exactly is eight? It's 2 cubed! Which can also be expressed as 2+2^2. LOOK AT ALL THOSE TWOS! Clearly, this is the item you need to properly celebrate your 22nd birthday.
And incidentally, I just discovered that a llama lives about three blocks from me. Go figure.
Hey /u/unicorndanceparty, I'm thinking you must participate in this. Everyone knows that llamas are the unicorns of South America.
A Question of Intent is an excellent book on the topic.
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Here's all my favorites! For books:
Fast Food Nation.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.
Food Rules: An Eater's Manifesto.
Salt Sugar Fat.
"Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal".
For movies/documentaries:
Fed Up,
Fast Food Nation,
That Sugar Film,
Food Fight,
Forks Over Knives,
The Future of Food,
Sugar-Coated.
I believe all of these are on Netflix!
And an excellent book about processed foods, Pandora's Lunchbox by Melanie Warner. Public libraries that have this book at WorldCat
If you want a really good and fairly quick read about this kind of thing, check out "Where am I Eating?" by Kelsey Timmerman. He actually goes and works on a coffee plantation that supplies Starbucks with coffee. http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Adventure-Through-Global-Economy/dp/1118351150
I’m new too!! But I’m further along than you are...my chickies look like Real Chickens^TM 😭
My in laws bought me the book Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens as a housewarming gift (knowing I wanted to raise chickens). I thought it was a nice gesture, but started flipping through the section on breeds to pick out what type of chickens I wanted, and holy cow. It’s like the Chicken Bible. I’ve read the whole thing cover to cover, dogeared pages, highlighted, and written in the margins. It’s a thick book and can be a little intimidating, but so so useful. I also have a good friend who is raising 32 backyard chickens, and has done a really great job of giving me her very crunchy, natural view on chicken raising. Between her, the chicken bible and this sub, I don’t think I’ll have any questions ever again! Feel free to PM me. I don’t have as many long-term answers, but I’ll help whenever I can!