The Lean Dairy Farmer: Save Time, Cut Costs, Eliminate Waste to Create a More Productive, Profitable and Higher Quality Farm by Jana Hocken
$39.99 NZD
Category: Farming
Farmers are struggling around the world with shrinking profits and increasing costs and consumer/ society demands. Improving productivity on farms and reducing costs is essential for the farming industry to survive yet farmers have little to no access to business training. This is the first book availab ...Show more
The Self-Sufficiency Bible: 100s of Ways to Live More Sustainably Wherever You Are by Simon Dawson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Farming
"A treasure-trove of brilliant ideas and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions" - Adam Henson, BBC One's CountryfileIn our current era of pandemic and environmental crisis, self-sufficiency is a means of taking control of our lives and safeguarding for the future - and this new, fully updated edition ...Show more
The Smallfarming Life: New Zealand's Smallfarming Movement, 1977-2006 by Ian F. Grant
$20.00 NZD
Category: Farming
This book is the story of the NZ Association of Smallfarmers, but it is equally the story of an extraordinary farming revolution that is everywhere to be seen, but has more often been blindly criticised and opposed than it has been analysed and understood. Smallfarming has re-populated the New Zealand c ...Show more
The Victorian Farmer by David J. Eveleigh
$19.99 NZD
Category: Farming | Series: Shire Library
The Victorian farmer occupied a pivotal role in rural society, paying rents to the landowner and providing employment for the labourer. This book explores the world of the farmer during Queen Victoria's reign, which was a period of considerable change on the farm as the forces of industrialisation made ...Show more
This Farming Life - Five generations on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$36.99 NZD
Category: Farming | Reading Level: near fine
Farmer Tim Saunders manages to incorporate some writing into his days, and here he describes his life through the seasons: Summer, shearing, slaughter, crop harvest, conservation; Autumn, floods, trading stock, drenching, dagging; Winter, maize harvest, lambing; and Spring, docking, pet sheep, weaning. ...Show more
Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$36.99 NZD
Category: Farming | Reading Level: good-very good
The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances. Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial pressure and the drive to become more viable and envir ...Show more