Agribusiness and primary industries

Concise, problem-oriented, and accessibly designed, the Pocket Handbook focuses on the essentials of medicine and surgery of the dog and cat.

Coal Production and Processing Technology provides uniquely comprehensive coverage of the latest coal technologies used in everything from mining to greenhouse gas mitigation.

Take a Detailed Look at the Practice of Drystone Retaining Wall ConstructionDrystone retaining walls make very efficient use of local materials, and sit comfortably in their environment.

This book focuses on how engineers and architects can benefit from new frameworks and technologies by reviewing the building information management (BIM) concept, discussing how BIM will affect education and practice, evaluating current BIM technology, exploring critical issues for best practices in BIM environments, and reviewing fundamentals of architectural and structural analysis under the new framework.

This book provides an up-to-date survey of durability issues, with a particular focus on specification and design, and how to achieve durability in actual concrete construction.

The book is developed to provide significant information and guidelines to construction and project management professionals (owners, designers, consultants, construction managers, project managers, supervisors, contractors, builders, developers, and many others from the construction-related industry) involved in construction projects (mainly civil construction projects, commercial-A/E projects) and construction-related industries.

Although the disciplines of architecture and structural engineering have both experienced their own historical development, their interaction has resulted in many fascinating and delightful structures.

Written by one of the UK's leading equine veterinary practitioners, this textbook is dedicated wholly to the veterinary management of the racehorse.

Building on the success of its 2006 predecessor, this 3rd edition of Open Pit Mine Planning and Design has been both updated and extended, ensuring that it remains the most complete and authoritative account of modern open pit mining available.

Captures Current Developments in Bridge Design and MaintenanceRecent research in bridge design and maintenance has focused on the serviceability problems of older bridges with aging joints.

In a continuously changing world, there has been a growing interest in the protection of vernacular heritage and earthen architecture.

An important part of an organization's overall safety and health program involves safety management for contractors.

Learn How to Implement Safety Codes and Regulations EffectivelyA number of electrical fatalities and injuries that occur each year can be overcome by a thorough understanding of electrical concepts.

Essentials of Offshore Structures: Framed and Gravity Platforms examines the engineering ideas and offshore drilling platforms for exploration and production.

Rock falls can be a public safety issue.

This book is the most comprehensive documentation of the scientific and methodological advances that have taken place in understanding remote sensing data, methods, and applications over last 50 years.

This text provides an introduction for graduate students, as well as engineering geologists and geotechnical engineers.

"e;Everything that sustains us - grown, mined, or drilled - begins its journey to us on a low-volume road (Long).

Presenting topics according to the conventional process used by most mining houses, this book covers the design and operation of sublevel open stoping.

This book brings together cutting-edge exploratory research findings to show how a vision for sustainable communities can be enabled by digital transformation.

The history of the meat packing industry of the Midwest offers an excellent illustration of the growth and development of the economy of that major industrial region.

This book analyses the performance and potential of India's oilseed sector, identifies the major constraints facing the industry and suggests options for increasing the country's oilseed production and productivity, taking into account the changing policy environment, increasing demand, slow growth in domestic production and rising imports.

Recycling of materials in building and infrastructure applications are global concerns driven by natural resource preservation needs of modernized countries and sustainable development of emerging countries.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

Consumers have always been concerned about the quality, and particularly the safety, of the foods they eat.

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.

After all the research on agricultural risk to date, the treatment of risk in agricultural research is far from harmonious.

Biotechnology offers great potential to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth, food security and poverty alleviation in developing countries.

This important study examines the role of Africa's strategic mineral resources in global defense and in the international economic system.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world's top Green Leaders.

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges.

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an indispensable technique to overcome ongoing and prospective agricultural challenges.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

In The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 1962, Rupert Vance suggested a decennial review of the region's progress.

'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL'A must-read' Dr RUPY AUJLA'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON'Empowering' LIZ EARLE**THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FOOD FOR LIFE COOKBOOK**Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-processed food has never seemed so complicated.

A dairy is a commercial business concentrated around the harvesting of animal milk for human consumption.

This is a classic guide to farm machinery, with a special focus on machinery used for producing grain.

This book contains a wealth of classic material on the subject of dairy farming.

This vintage book contains a collection of classic articles on selecting a goat for the farm, with information on breeds, characteristics, signs of health, and many other related aspects.

The development of farming machinery revolutionised agriculture, allowing for far greater yields with less manpower.

This volume deals with the production of asparagus, offering the reader historical details before exploring every aspect from planting to cropping and beyond.

This book contains a comprehensive guide to the use and maintenance of traditional farm machinery.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This delightful text encompasses a collection of designs of various barns and out-buildings, such as apiaries, stables, play-houses.

This volume contains a comprehensive guide to farm management, with a particular focus on the financial side of running a farm and including information on borrowing, hire purchase, and returns.

As an entrepreneur, the farmer combines labour and capital in the hope of profits, but always with the risk of losses.

"e;The Dog - Breeds of the British Isles"e; is an essay by David Low, published as part of the "e;Domesticated Animals of the British Islands"e; series.

"e;The Horse - Breeds of the British Isles"e; is an essay by David Low, published as part of the "e;Domesticated Animals of the British Islands"e; series.