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Agribusiness Books and Resources
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items Books and learning resources for anyone exploring agriculture, starting a farm or improving an established agribusiness. Find practical references on poultry, livestock, crop production and farm business planning. Check the contents and edition befor...
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Farm Reference Books and Learning Resources
Farm Reference Books and Learning Resources
Compare references on animal care, crop production and farm business management. Paid books and free institutional resources are identified in the recommendation notes.
A paid reference for exploring chicken breed choice, housing, feeding and flock health. Useful for beginners preparing a first flock and owners reviewing their setup. Check the fourth edition’s contents before buying and adapt recommendations to your...
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Ed
A paid poultry book for readers who want to understand flock planning and small-scale production as a connected system. Useful for comparing housing, feeding and management approaches before investing. Read the contents and assess which methods fit y...
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: Natural Raising
A poultry-enterprise case study focused on direct marketing, mobile systems and farm economics. Adapt the model to local land, feed and market realities.
Pastured Poultry Profits by Joel Salatin
A practical farm-business book for balancing production, profit and quality of life while building a more deliberate operation.
Your Successful Farm Business: Profit & Pleasure
A useful open companion resource covering budgeting, risk, record keeping, decision-making and whole-farm management fundamentals.
Farm Business Management: The Fundamentals of Good Practice
A whole-farm planning resource that connects goals, markets, finances, people and long-term sustainability. Apply examples to your local context.
Whole Farm Management: From Start-Up to Sustainability
A reference for choosing duck breeds and understanding care and flock health. Useful when comparing ducks with chickens before starting an enterprise. Check the edition and adapt housing and feeding advice to your climate and local veterinary guidanc...
Storey’s Guide to Raising Ducks, 2nd Edition
A practical reference on farm finances, crop planning and staff management. Useful for readers who want to assess costs and organise a farm as a business. Review the examples against your own market, scale and production system; a book cannot guarant...
The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook
A vegetable-growing reference focused on organising work and reducing wasted time and materials. Useful for market gardeners reviewing their production process. Compare the farm examples with your climate, crop choices, labour and customer demand bef...
The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables
A small-scale market gardening book for readers considering commercial vegetable production. Useful for comparing intensive growing methods and routes to market. Treat the author’s examples as planning ideas, then calculate local costs and demand for...
The Market Gardener by Jean-Martin Fortier
A dairy-goat reference covering breed selection, feeding, fencing, health, dairying and marketing. Useful for assessing what a goat enterprise needs before buying animals. Check local milk-sale requirements and work with a veterinarian when applying ...
Storey’s Guide to Raising Dairy Goats, 5th Edition
A protected-cropping reference for planning vegetable production in greenhouses and hoophouses. Useful before investing in structures, climate management and crop systems. Compare the methods with local heat, humidity, ventilation needs and expected ...
The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower's Handbook
A free FAO training manual for learning farm business skills and responding to market demand. Written for a South Asia programme, so use the exercises as a starting point and adapt costs, markets and examples to your location. This is a learning reso...
Farm Business School manual: Training of farmers programme for South Asia
A free FAO practical training manual connecting aquaculture production with farm business decisions. Useful for aspiring fish farmers comparing technical requirements and economics. Use the institutional guidance alongside documented local experience...
Doing aquaculture as a business for small- and medium-scale farmers: practical training manual
A free FAO publication library for readers exploring farmer learning, programme design and practical agricultural education. Use it to find guidance relevant to your production topic rather than assuming one manual covers every farm. Institutional re...
FAO Farmer Field School Publications
A soil-management reference by Fred Magdoff and Harold van Es, with the fourth edition available as a free PDF or paid print book through SARE. Useful for understanding organic matter, compost, drainage, compaction and nutrient management before buyi...
Building Soils for Better Crops
A cover-crop planning reference available as a free PDF or paid print book from SARE. Useful for comparing grasses and legumes and understanding how cover crops fit rotations, soil care and weed management. The third edition dates from 2007, so check...
Managing Cover Crops Profitably, 3rd Edition