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Maynard Murray was a medical doctor who researched the crucial importance of minerals - especially trace elements - to plants and animals. Beginning in 1938 and continuing through the 1950s, Dr. Murray used sea solids - mineral salts remaining after water is evaporated from ocean water - as fertilizer on a variety of vegetables, fruits and grains. His extensive experiments demonstrated repeatedly and conclusively that plants fertilized with sea solids and animals fed sea-solid-fertilized feeds grow stronger and more resistant to disease.

Sea Energy Agriculture recounts Murray's experiments and presents his astounding conclusions. The work of this eco-pioneer was largely ignored during his lifetime, and his book became a lost classic - out-of-print for more than 25 years. Now this rare volume is once again available, with a new foreward and afterword by the founder of Acres U.S.A., Charles Walters. ... Read more

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Keys to a hidden treasure
This book should be in the library of every farmer that desires to produce healthy, nutritious crops and livestock.

Sea Energy Agriculture (Paperback) by Maynard Murray
This is some thing which never came to my mind because I thought it was impossible.

After reading the book I realised the value of Sea water and Sea solids. I tried it on my house plants first. I saw unbelievable results. Many farmers can save billions of dollars if they try this. I guarantee it.

EVERYONE should read this book!
The information in this book will save you & your family's lives. Grow your own produce without poisons and with all the nutrients the human body needs to be healthy and stay out of the doctor's office for good. I'm serious, take your life back from commercial GMO's and depleted nutrition. Go to [...] and get started, we did!!

Best book ever! Eat vegan living foods!
This book will open your mind to a new level of thinking. A must for anybody who eats food. Pick up a copy for all the farmers in your area! ... Read more

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This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa.Considering successive periods--Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s--Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender, and race.While exploring biological, geological, and climatological forces in history, this book argues that the challenges of existence in a semidesert arose more from human injustice than from deficiencies in the natural environment.In fact, powerful people drew strength from and exercised their power over others through the environment.At the same time, the natural world provided marginal peoples with some relief from human injustice. Nancy J. Jacobs is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.She is a recipient of the Alice Hamilton article prize from the American Society for Environmental History. ... Read more

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Superb history of agriculture. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Farming Systems Research (FSR) may be defined as a diagnostic process, providing a collection of methods for researchers to understand farm households and their decision-making.Its applications use this understanding to increase efficiency in the use of human and budgetary resources for agricultural development, including research, extension and policy formulation.This book provides a detailed history of FSR.While it includes the application of FSR to developed country agriculture, its main focus is on FSR in its original role, with small-scale, resource-poor farmers in less developed countries.There are some 40 contributions from nearly 50 contributors from 20 countries, illustrating both the diversity and coherence of FSR.The book was initiated by the then International Association for Farming Systems Research and Extension (now International Farming Systems Association) and developed with support from FAO.It provides a wealth of information and insights for all concerned with agricultural development. ... Read more

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A History of Farming Systems Research
I'm worikng my master thesis in Europe, but currently I'm on vacation in USA. My work connects animal science and computer science and I'm trying to find out what is new in the field ofmanagement system in animal production. That is how I found this book. I wonder if there is any other books like this that are talking more about animal systems not farming system in common. It is a very special book with special topic. I haven't read it yet, but I intend to. If it is what it promises, that would be great. Books like this should be more frequent. ... Read more

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This is the first book to assess the contribution of Southern agriculture to the Confederate war effort, to describe the damage that agriculture sustained during the war, to analyze the transition from slavery to free labor after the war, and to recount the slow and painful process of rebuilding Southern agriculture by 1880. Synthesizing primary and secondary historical sources, Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 fills a crucial gap in our knowledge about the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction period. ... Read more

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This is the first analysis in any language of the religious, philosophical and folkloristic content of Ibn Waḥshiyya's (d. 931) Nabatean Agriculture.

This enigmatic book, said to have been translated by Ibn Waḥshiyya from Syriac into Arabic, contains much material on Late Antique Paganism in Iraq and semi-learned reception of Greek philosophical thought.

The first part of the present book studies the question of authenticity, authorship and context of the Nabatean Agriculture, dated by the author to around 600 AD. The second part consists of 61 translated and annotated excerpts of the Nabatean Agriculture, until now available only in the Arabic original, as well as introductions to the world view of the text. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. Yet crops from the past like flax, hemp, rapeseed, and woad are gradually reappearing in the "modern" countryside. Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive the current interest in alternative forms of agriculture--a glut of mainstream meat and cereal crops, changing patterns of diet, the needs of medicine--have striking parallels with earlier periods of English history, emphasizing that solutions to current problems can still be found in the hard-won experience of people in the past. ... Read more

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relevant to today's local food movement.
fantastic overview of food and agriculture issues in England and technologies that were used over the years.
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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Agriculture," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Agriculture in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Agriculture when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Agriculture, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, farmers in the Corn Belt transformed their region into a new, industrial powerhouse of large-scale production, mechanization, specialization, and efficiency. Many farm experts and implement manufacturers had urged farmers in this direction for decades, but it was the persistent labor shortage and cost-price squeeze following WWII that prompted farmers to pave the way to industrializing agriculture. Anderson examines the changes in Iowa, a representative state of the Corn Belt, in order to explore why farmers adopted particular technologies and how, over time, they integrated new tools and techniques.



In addition to the impressive field machinery, grain storage facilities, and automated feeding systems were the less visible, but no less potent, chemical technologies antibiotics and growth hormones administered to livestock, as well as insecticide, herbicide, and fertilizer applied to crops. Much of this new technology created unintended consequences: pesticides encouraged the proliferation of resistant strains of plants and insects while also polluting the environment and threatening wildlife, and the use of feed additives triggered concern about the health effects to consumers.



Anderson explains that the cost of equipment and chemicals made unprecedented demands on farm capital, and in order to maximize production, farmers planted more acres with fewer but more profitable crops or specialized in raising large herds of a single livestock species. The industrialization of agriculture gave rural Americans a lifestyle resembling that of their urban and suburban counterparts. Yet the rural population continued to dwindle as farms required less human labor, and many small farmers, unable or unwilling to compete, chose to sell out.



Industrializing the Corn Belt based on farm records, cooperative extension reports, USDA publications, oral interviews, trade literature, and agricultural periodicals offers a fresh look at an important period of revolutionary change in agriculture through the eyes of those who grew the crops, raised the livestock, implemented new technology, and ultimately made the decisions that transformed the nature of the family farm and the Midwestern landscape. ... Read more

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Great Book
This is a first-class book: closely reasoned, thoroughly researched, and extremely well-written. Anyone interested in rural life, agricultural economics, our food supply, and the environment should owe and study this excellent monograph.

Indepth study of a major change in American life
This well researched and well written book studies the evolution of US agriculture from one era to another--a major shift in farming which impacts food production for all Americans. The author researches and discusses 1945-1972 agriculture extension services publications, individual farm records and personal farmer commentaries, farm magazines, land grant agricultural publications, and agriculture company materials among others.He also conducts first person interviews with farmers and their families who participated in the changes from 1945-1972 to help the reader understand some of the social and financial impacts on farm families and American rural life. Readers who lived these changes will identify with what is written and see themselves on the pages. Those who did not will marvel at what happened and the impact this era had upon all of us and what we eat.I am a biased reviewer because I had the privilege of watching this author grow up with a passion for history and agriculture. ... Read more

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This meticulously researched book tells the story of Midwestern agriculture during a period of epochal change in farm technology, farm management, and farm life. The hard work, tight communities, and values that had characterized the family farm were replaced by large corporate enterprises with massive acreages, high-tech methods, and global outlooks. While many decry this change as loss, Nordin and Scott find a net gain. This is their richly detailed account of one of the great transformations in American life. ... Read more