Electric Fencing
Electric Fencing

Author: Jennifer Laffan

Publisher: NSW Agriculture

Published: 2024-11-21

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1742561691

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Reviewed and updated in 2024. Electric fences are often an inexpensive and effective way to control livestock. The AgGuide to Electric Fencing has 14 chapters including: · Electric fences—can they help you? · How they work · Safety · Planning the fence · Materials · Gates · Reinforcing fences · Temporary fences · Building the fence · Testing the fence · Special circumstances · Training paddocks · Animals controlled · Step by step construction · Useful terms and definitions This book is a companion title to AgGuide – Fencing. AgGuides are compiled by highly regarded industry experts to provide easy to follow advice on agriculture and support the Tocal College external study program for agriculture.

Farm Fences and Gates
Farm Fences and Gates

Author: Richard Kubik

Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0760345694

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DIVFarm Fences and Gates explains how to choose the proper materials for your fence, what tools you need, and how to plan, build, repair, and maintain solid, dependable fences and gates. /div

Grass-fed Cattle
Grass-fed Cattle

Author: Julius Ruechel

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1580176054

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An authoritative reference on the environmentally responsible humane way to raise healthful beef, this manual addresses every aspect of raising grass-fed cattle, from pasture management to marketing.

Draft Horses and Mules
Draft Horses and Mules

Author: Gail Damerow

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Published: 2008-10-08

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1603426426

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Hardworking and intelligent, draft horses and mules provide clean-energy power for an impressive array of tasks. Bringing strength and endurance to every job, from cultivating farmland and hauling logs to giving long quiet rides through the countryside, these animals love to work. In this illustrated guide, Gail Damerow and Anita Rice provide all the information you need in order to select, train, feed, care for, and work with your own team of draft horses or mules.

The Contrary Farmer
The Contrary Farmer

Author: Gene Logsdon

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Offers the practical advice of a manual for the cottage farmer as well as meditation in praise of work and pleasure.

Farming Meat Goats
Farming Meat Goats

Author: Barbara Vincent

Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1486306594

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Goat meat is growing in popularity in Australia and is also an important export industry. It offers many opportunities for large- and small-scale farmers who need to diversify or seek alternative enterprises. Farming Meat Goats provides producers with comprehensive and practical information on all aspects of the goat meat industry. It covers selecting and preparing a property, choosing breeding stock, breeding, health care and nutrition, drought feeding, condition scoring and marketing. This second edition of Farming Meat Goats has been updated throughout and contains new information about the National Livestock Identification System, current regulations for ovine Johne's disease and animal welfare during transportation, and information about marketing. It will allow farmers to produce animals to specification for targeted markets in Australia and overseas including: butchers; supermarkets; restaurants; on-farm live sales; sales to abattoirs that specialise in Halal kills; and breeding stock either as replacements or for improved herd genetics.

Agricultural and Horticultural Engineering
Agricultural and Horticultural Engineering

Author: Clifford J Studman

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 1483278301

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Agricultural and Horticultural Engineering: Principles, Models, Systems, and Techniques focuses on the developments in agriculture and horticulture, including the role of engineers in employing measures in the management of plants, animals, and machinery. The book first offers information on the process of surveying, including tape, compass, and aerial surveying, leveling, barometric leveling with the aneroid, plane tabling, and electronic distance measurement and electronic total. The text then takes a look at models of the environment, material properties, and the relationship between stress and strain. The publication examines workshop methods and hydraulics. Topics include soldering, electric arc welding, low temperature brazing, welding using oxygen-acetylene apparatus, hydrodynamics, and water supply requirements. The text also reviews electricity and electronics and power and thermal systems, as well as alternating voltage supplies, electrical motors, electrical safety, power and energy consumption, and the fundamental principles of electronics. The manuscript is a dependable reference for engineers and readers interested in agricultural and horticultural engineering.