Animal Husbandry

Grazing management might seem simple: just put livestock in a pasture and let them eat their fill. However, as Sarah Flack explains in The Art and ...

The most complete book on urban farming, covering everything from growing organic produce and raising chickens, to running a small farm on a city l...

After attending university for the first time in 1969, Robert Peden spent 25 years shepherding and managing high country sheep stations in the Sout...

This book presents current research in the study of livestock, with a particular focus on livestock rearing, farming practices and associated disea...

Sparks from the Smiddy tells the life story of David Wilson, a sixth generation blacksmith and world champion farrier (a craftsman who trims and sh...

According to the EPA, the release of waste from animal feedlots to surface water, groundwater, soil and air is associated with a range of human hea...

More than ever, Americans care about the quality and safety of the food they eat. They're bringing back an American tradition: raising their own ba...

Incorporating research chapters from academic authors around the world, this book focuses on the most recent scientific advances in understanding p...

One of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinati...

Through the story of one man, Caleb Bawcombe, a shepherd whose flocks graze the Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset borders, we meet men and women of h...

The book not only has distinguished scientists at its helm but also in the list of contributing authors from Europe, Australasia, North and South A...

Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic ter...

Beef Cattle Production and Trade covers all aspects of the beef industry from paddock to plate. It is an international text with an emphasis on Aus...

Nowadays, habitat loss is one of the main threats to terrestrial vertebrates'''' survival. Due to the decreasing of continuous natural areas, and c...

Illustrated by professional artist Eric Copeland, and including amusing anecdotes from the ''''joys'''' of working with pigs for a living, this is ...

Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller Tomatoland and a writer of great skill and compassion (Eric Schlosser), now explores the d...

Silk banners and stone dragons, dusty corrals and saddle leather-the North China plains of the warlords meets the cowboy culture of Western America...

Fungal diseases have contributed to death and disability in humans, triggered global wildlife extinctions and population declines, devastated agric...

Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's ove...