Good Farming books/magazines

TossL1916

Has anybody any suggestions of some farming books or magazines worth reading? Being a student i have a fare bit of time on my hands during the week so if i,m not in the pub i find myself reading some sort of farming material
Along with the IFJ and Farming Independent i read Farmers Weekly and the New Zealand Dairy Exporter. If i was back again i wouldn't have subscribed to Farmers Weekly.
I only have the one farming book but its a brilliant one. Essential guide to calving, written by a ranch farmer in Idaho, its a really practical book and i,d recommend it to anyone that has to calf cows. I,d love to get my hands on a few more good publications, especially books.
All suggestions appreciated

moy83

I like the farmers guardian , think its out every week

Genghis Cant

Some of Temple Grandin stuff. Animals in Translation for a start, or Animals make us human.
Orwells Animal Farm too :-)

Brown Podzol

All James Herriot's books. All creatures great and small. Available on Amazone

moy83

Brown Podzol wrote: »

All James Herriot's books. All creatures great and small. Available on Amazone

Simpler times to farm in , good books

Nekarsulm

have a look on ebay for a book called "the farm" by Richard Benson. Well worth getting, at least I liked it.
Also see if you can find copies of "on the smell of an oily rag" can't remember the author, and a book called (i think) "the story of a Norfolk farm" can't remember the author, but he wrote the classic "Tarka the otter"

"On the smell of an oily rag" by John Cherrington
"The story of a Norfolk farm" by Henry Williamson

micraX

Wouldn't be mad on that Irish farmers journal tbh, should be called Irish grassland farmers journal, a good three quarters of it is about all sheep and cows and milk and grass, tillage isn't given enough at all in it, and hardly any thing is done about the fresh produce sector, market gardening. Like they done sweet feck all on the vegetable price war before Christmas, there was more in the Irish daily star than it like. Farmers weekly and if your into machinery. Has t be Profi for the new kit and Classic Tractor for the old school stuff.

20silkcut

micraX wrote: »

Wouldn't be mad on that Irish farmers journal tbh, should be called Irish grassland farmers journal, a good three quarters of it is about all sheep and cows and milk and grass, tillage isn't given enough at all in it, and hardly any thing is done about the fresh produce sector, market gardening. Like they done sweet feck all on the vegetable price war before Christmas, there was more in the Irish daily star than it like. Farmers weekly and if your into machinery. Has t be Profi for the new kit and Classic Tractor for the old school stuff.

True about the farmers journal it is ridden with agendas as well not bad or insidious ones but they really are pushing the absolute be jaysus out of the NZ dairy farm model in this country would love to hear a bit more alternate fresh outside the box thinking its not good to have a mass group think approach to farming like the farmers journal espouse.
Good article in it on the potential for beet this week though, it may finally be the alternative to dairying in this country.

Bactidiaryl

Where do you get the dairy exporter.

TossL1916

micraX wrote: »

Wouldn't be mad on that Irish farmers journal tbh, should be called Irish grassland farmers journal, a good three quarters of it is about all sheep and cows and milk and grass, tillage isn't given enough at all in it, and hardly any thing is done about the fresh produce sector, market gardening. Like they done sweet feck all on the vegetable price war before Christmas, there was more in the Irish daily star than it like. Farmers weekly and if your into machinery. Has t be Profi for the new kit and Classic Tractor for the old school stuff.

for me its the opposite, farmers weekly is full of tillage, machinery and classifieds and the few livestock articles they have are very poor, from a tillage point of view its a very good magazine and from a grassland point of view the ifj is pretty good

Bactidiaryl wrote: »

Where do you get the dairy exporter.

Paid for a subscription from their website, cant remember the price but it wasn't too expensive, some very good reading in it

jfh

TossL1916 wrote: »

Paid for a subscription from their website, cant remember the price but it wasn't too expensive, some very good reading in it

presume that the online version, 133 kiwi dollars working out at 80 euro?

TossL1916

jfh wrote: »

presume that the online version, 133 kiwi dollars working out at 80 euro?

no i get the actual magazine, more expensive but i much prefer to have it in my hand rather than reading off a screen

conor t

ya should get Ruminant Nutrition: Recommended Allowances and Feed Tables by INRA, (the crowd who came up with ufls and pdi), improved grassland management by John Frame is another good one.

Nekarsulm

A copy of "Blacks Veterinary Dictionary"

coolshannagh28

Check out "Cold comfort farm"

Dickie10

I enjoyed a book called "The Two Farms" by Mary Peirce, set in 18th century Gloucster, England. Bit dew eyed at times but really interesting methods and farm techniques explored plus its not to long.if ure into sheep its good read