Central Kansas Library System

Farm fields can span hundreds of acres. With so much area to cover, checking crops and livestock can be difficult. But with an agricultural drone, this job becomes much simpler. Young readers will discover how drones help farmers maximize efficiencies and bring abundant harvests.

Fueled by a failing economy and a passionate desire for a return to simpler times, a new wave of homesteaders is seeking the good life and the kind of true satisfaction that can only be built, not bought. Many of these modern pioneers are cash poor, but rich in energy and creativity. Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions offers them a set of fresh ideas for achieving independence through sweat equity and the use of...

Josh Volk, the proprietor of Slow Hand Farm with 20 years experience of managing small farms in the United States presents detailed farm layouts for productivity and efficiency for small farms on 5 acres or less. When it comes to farming, it turns out that small isn't only beautiful - small is also sustainable, manageable, and productive. Come along on a tour of 15 successful farms, from urban rooftops to rural retreats, all flourishing on five...

El campo mexicano atraviesa una larga crisis que ya tiene una duración de más de medio siglo. Si bien esta crisis ha tenido sus altibajos, en términos generales ha sido caracterizada por la interrelación de problemas ecológicos, económicos, políticos y sociales, involucrando un gran número de diferentes actores sociales, quienes además actúan a nivel regional, estatal nacional e internacional. En otras palabras, la crisis rural se tiene...

Harvesting Paradise: A Guide to Tropical Agriculture Uncover the Secrets of Bountiful Harvests Amidst Palm Trees and Sunshine!Are you struggling to turn your tropical garden into a flourishing oasis? Do the challenges of cultivating exotic crops under the sun's relentless gaze leave you feeling overwhelmed? "Harvesting Paradise" is your ultimate guide to thriving in the vibrant world of tropical agriculture. Dive into this comprehensive handbook crafted...

In the mid-1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact...

"The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their small family farm--and their entire way of life--are under siege. Beyond the threat posed by rising corporate ownership of land and livestock,...

La quinua (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) es un cultivo de tradición andina, con excelentes propiedades nutricionales y metabólicos secundarios con uso potencial en la industria, y una amplia adaptación a condiciones agroclimatológicas extremas que hacen de ella una de las especies promisorias para enfrentar las consecuencias del cambio climático a nivel mundial. Dada su actual importancia económica, nutricional y social, sus áreas de siembra alrededor...

How Malabar Farm pioneered soil conservation and grew the sustainable agriculture movement Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize—winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once considered "the most famous farm in the world." Farmers, conservationists, politicians, businessmen, and even a few Hollywood celebrities-including Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who married there-flocked to rural Ohio to see how Bromfield restored worn-out...