Books in Agribusiness

Partners in the Harvest Record of a Seminar, 'NGOs, Scientists and the Poor: Competitors, Combatants Or Collaborators?', Conducted by the Crawford Fund for International Agricultural Research and World Vision Australia, Parliament House, Canberra, 8 April 1997

Pastured Poultry Profits

A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when main-line farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future.

Summary of Joel Salatin's Pastured Poultry Profit$

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The farm is currently operated by my mother and my family: wife, Teresa Wenger Salatin; son, Daniel and daughter, Rachel. We produce organic grassfattened beef, homegrown broilers, firewood, eggs, rabbits, and vegetables.

The Coronation Souvenir June 1911 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Coronation Souvenir: June 1911 <p>A few years ago an internal-combustion motor tractor was a scarcity. To - day a trip through Western Canada brings hundreds of them into view, every one of them making money for the owners. <p>No machine introduced to the Canadian farmer has ever met the instant popularity which has come to the gasoline tractor. This popularity is rightly deserved. For no one machine has done more to make possible the great wheat crops which have given Western Canada the name, The Breadbasket of the World. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Cost and Utilization of Power on Farms Where Tractors Are Owned 286 Farms, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 1920 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Cost and Utilization of Power on Farms Where Tractors Are Owned: 286 Farms, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 1920 <p>Ou the average, the 2-plow tractors saved 25 to 30 days of man labor, and the 3-plow tractor 30 to 35 days, requiredfor drawbar work during the year on these farms. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Lily Cream Separator A Practical Farm Machine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Lily Cream Separator: A Practical Farm Machine <p>The individual business that exhausts its natural resources will eventually hnd itself in the throes of failure. Here we have a reason for so many worn out and abandoned farms throughout the country. Such farms are not yet a very common sight in the great corn belt region, but the fact that the grain yield on strictly grain farms, where nothing is returned to the soil, is becoming less each year, brings us sharply a vision of the sure failure of the great grain farms unless a change in systems takes place very shortly. <p>Continuous cropping without feeding the soil exhausts the plant food constituents, and the soil becomes dead just as certainly as failure to eat or secure food will cause the death of a human being. The death of the soil is slower, but nevertheless as inevitable. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Tillage, Planting, and Harvesting Equipment on Grain Farms and Rates of Doing Field Work with These Implements When Drawn with Horse and with Tractor Power Northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Tillage, Planting, and Harvesting Equipment on Grain Farms and Rates of Doing Field Work With These Implements When Drawn With Horse and With Tractor Power: Northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest <p>In certain sections of the Northern Great Plains, particularly western North Dakota, eastern Montana, and in many areas of South Dakota, conditions of extreme drought prevailed in 1933. Because of the small harvest reported in these drought areas the harvest work done with power equipment was abnormal. <p>The use of equipment in a normal season rather than that reported in 1933 has been used. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Tractor Wars John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture

<b>"Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered." <br>—<i>Wall Street Journal</i><br><i> </i><br><br><br>Discover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming—the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years.</b><br><br>Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908-1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming. <br><br>By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation’s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That’s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man’s landing on the moon or the advent of the internet—after all, with the tractor, a shrinking farm population could still feed a growing world. But getting the tractor from the boardroom to the drafting table, then from factory and the farm, was a technological and competitive battle that until now, has never been fully told.<br><br>A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In <i>Tractor Wars</i>, Dahlstrom offers an insider’s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure. <br><br>With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, <i>Tractor Wars</i> is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture—a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world.

Utilization of Tractors and Cost of Tractor Power on Grain Farms Northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest, 1933 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Utilization of Tractors and Cost of Tractor Power on Grain Farms: Northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest, 1933 <p>In certain sections of the Northern Great Plains, particularly western North Dakota, eastern Mentana, and in.many areas of South Dakota, conditions of extreme drought prevailed ln 1955. As a result very little harvest was reported in these drought areas and the harvest work done With power equip ment was abnormal. The use of equipment in a normal season rather than that reported in 1955 has been used in calculating the cost of Operating power equipment. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.