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Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit

by Carol Ekarius

Carol Ekarius' natural, organic approach to livestock management produces healthier animals, reduces feed and health care costs, and maximizes your profit. Includes case studies of successful farmers, nitty-gritty...

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: Care, Feeding, Facilities

by Gail Damerow

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens includes all the information farmers need - from choosing breeds and hatching chicks to building coops and keeping the birds healthy and safe from predators - to keep chickens...

Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs: 3rd Edition

by Kelly Klober

Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs is the trusted resource for new and experienced pig farmers, providing authoritative advice on breed selection, housing, humane handling and butchering, and disease prevention...

Horse Hoof Care

by Cherry Hill & Richard Klimesh

Cherry Hill, America's most trusted equine expert, teams up with Richard Klimesh, a professional farrier and her frequent writing partner, to address the twin topics of hoof care and horseshoeing. Proper hoof...

The Book of Bee-Keeping - A Practical and Complete Manual on the Proper Management of Bees

by W. B. Webster

Specially written for amateurs, beginners, cottagers and others who are desirous of keeping two or three hives of bees so as to yield the best results. Contents Include: Advantages of Bee-Keeping The Honey Bee...

Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management in the Western Pacific

by Edward Glazier

As the ecosystem-based trend in fisheries management continues to be implemented worldwide, a thorough background of this new management approach and resulting implementation strategies is needed.  Ecosystem-Based...

A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store's Guide to Chicken Keeping

by Robert Litt & Hannah Litt

Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs?

Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland’s Urban Farm Store, and...

The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh Eg

by Gail Damerow

Imagine a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees. Or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction. With The Backyard Homestead...

Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle:

by Heather Thomas

Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle is the go-to reference for new and experienced cattle ranchers, providing expert advice on everything from breed selection, calving, feeding, and housing, to humane handling...

Oxidative Stress and Redox Regulation in Plants

by Jean-Pierre Jacquot

The field of redox is rapidly changing, specifically in relation to plants where redox reactions are exacerbated compared to non-photosynthetic organisms. The development of proteomics has allowed the identification...

Multi-Mode / Multi-Band RF Transceivers for Wireless Communications: Advanced Techniques, Architectures, and Trends

by Gernot Hueber & Robert Bogdan Staszewski

• Summarizes cutting-edge physical layer technologies for multi-mode wireless RF transceivers.
• Includes original contributions from distinguished researchers and professionals.
• Covers cutting-edge physical layer...

Larval Fish Nutrition

by G. Joan Holt

Nutrition is particularly important in the healthy development of fish during their early-life stages. Understanding the unique nutritional needs of larval fish can improve the efficiency and quality of fish...

Allergen Management in the Food Industry

by Joyce I. Boye & Samuel Benrejeb Godefroy

This book comprehensively addresses the sources of allergenic contaminants in foods, their fate during processing, and the specific measures that need to be taken to minimize their occurrence in foods. The book...

Barley: Production, Improvement, and Uses

by Steven E. Ullrich

Barley is one of the world's most important crops with uses ranging from food and feed production, malting and brewing to its use as a model organism in molecular research. The demand and uses of barley continue...

Confectionery and Chocolate Engineering: Principles and Applications

by Ferenc Mohos

Confectionery and chocolate manufacture has been dominated by large-scale industrial processing for several decades. It is often the case, though, that a trial and error approach is applied to the development...

Practical Food Rheology: An Interpretive Approach

by Ian Norton

Rheology is fundamentally important in food manufacturing in two major senses. Understanding the way in which a substance moves and behaves is essential in order to be able to transport and mix it during processing....

Asian Noodles: Science, Technology, and Processing

by Gary G. Hou

In Asian Noodles: Science, Technology and Processing, international experts review the current knowledge and offer comprehensive cutting-edge coverage on Asian noodles unmatchable in any publication. The authors...

Innovative Food Processing Technologies: Advances in Multiphysics Simulation

by Kai , PhD Knoerzer, Pablo , PhD Juliano & Peter , PhD Roupas

Part of the IFT (Institute of Food Technologists) series, this book discusses multiphysics modeling and its application in the development, optimization, and scale-up of emerging food processing technologies....

Natural Food Flavors and Colorants

by Mathew Attokaran

Although many foods are appealing, and even perceived as natural, in spite of containing synthetic additives, consumer increasingly prefer food products which are fully natural. This has driven an increase in...

Modified Atmosphere Packaging for Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables

by Aaron L. Brody & Hong Zhuang

Modified Atmosphere Packaging for Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of modern MAP technologies for fresh-cut fruits and vegetables. Coverage begins with the general...