Agriculture & Farming

Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen Sunday Times Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping Brilliant New York Magazine ...

A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked is also proof that its never too late.New York TimesMarion Nestle reflects on he...

Practical, easy to understand, and up-to-date, INTRODUCTION TO FORESTRY SCIENCE, Third Edition provides readers with a comprehensive overview of th...

The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg suggests, it is also the largest...

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award Red kites were once Britains most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they'd ...

Parasitism and Parasitic Control in Animals brings together all the details needed to appropriately manage parasites in domestic animals. It provid...

Fundamentals of Epigenetics provides concise yet complete information on the many aspects of the basic and most recent concepts in epigenetics, a b...

The second edition of Objective Genetics, Biochemistry and Forestry is an up-to-date version in which many new questions have been added along with...

Find out more about natural wine-made naturally from organically or biodynamically grown grapes - from leading authority Isabelle Legeron MW. ...

Chapters 3 and 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivat...

A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist.This m...

A prerequisite to improving the sustainability of agriculture are reliable methods to identify and quantify types of environmental impact. This col...

Tree nuts such as almonds, walnuts and pistachio have long been grown for consumption and as a food ingredient. It is estimated that 4 million metr...

The instant no. 2 Sunday Times bestseller!Join the Nicholson family for this heartwarming journey through a typical springtime on their South Yorks...

This book provides a comprehensive review of key advances in the use of robots in agriculture.Chapters summarise developments in location and guida...

Temperate fruits include stone/drupe fruits (such as peach), pome fruits (such as apple) and berries (such as strawberries). Like other crops, cult...

Temperate fruits include stone/drupe fruits (such as peach), pome fruits (such as apple) and berries (such as strawberries). Like other crops, cult...

With the current trend for the replacement of the fishmeal content of aquaculture feeds, the issue of antinutrients contained in plant-based materi...

This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on nematode pests in agriculture.The first chapter assesses the value and impact of ...

The South African government has prioritized a reduction of poverty and increased food security in rural parts of South Africa through agrarian tra...

The tough and touching tale of a real Yorkshire family farm.In the 60 years that Yorkshire farmer Roger Nicholson has lived at Cannon Hall Farm nea...

The growing urgency, complexity and wickedness of sustainability problemsfrom climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and per...