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Natural methods are not limited to crops. Grass farmers around the world are turning to low-input grazing methods with animal care based on sound, ecological approaches.
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Livestock:

The Meat Goat Handbook
An instructive handbook with advice from an experienced goat rancher on breeds, feeding, housing, safety, health, kidding, butchering and selling.

Both Dr. Karreman Books
Purchase both Treating Dairy Cows Naturally and The Barn Guide to Treating Dairy Cows Naturally and save $10.00!

How to Not go Broke Ranching
Real-life advice on making ranching operations more profitable, less dependent upon purchased inputs and a better way to live and raise a family.

Kick the Hay Habit
Subtitled, A Practical Guide to Year-Around Grazing, this book offers a straightforward way for graziers to use today’s grazing management systems to raise livestock without having the high costs of producing and using hay for livestock feed.

Know Your Cows
Explore 44 different breeds of cattle from all over the world with full-color photographs and detailed descriptions of appearance, history, and meat and milk producing capabilities.

The Organic Dairy Handbook
This whole-farm management resource is essential for farmers interested in organic production and those transitioning from conventional to organic dairy production.

Transitioning to Organic Dairy Workbook
This workbook evaluates whether organic dairy is a good option and introduces many of the requirements needed to implement a successful transition. This workbook is designed to be used with the companion book, The Organic Dairy Handbook.

Know Your Pigs
This fascinating guide will turn both young and old alike into pig enthusiasts with full-color photographs and detailed descriptions of appearance, history, and personality traits of 29 different breeds.

Natural Goat Care
Goat husbandry incorporating natural practices.

Natural Sheep Care
Coleby draws on decades of experience in natural animal husbandry to provide essential information.

Albrecht on Pastures (The Albrecht Papers, Vol. VI)
Albrecht discerned a cause-effect response when producing high volume forage. Also that the absence of pasture often means disease. His papers outline his insightful findings – just as important now as when they were first published.

The Barn Guide to Treating Dairy Cows Naturally
The companion guide to Treating Dairy Cows Naturally, this book includes an easy-to-follow visual and hands-on physical exam section, features nearly 100 case studies organized by symptoms, and offers valuable field-tested natural treatments.

Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep
A classic guide to small-scale sheep raising thoroughly explains breed selection, lambing, feeding, housing, pasture maintenance, and disease prevention and treatment.

4 Newman Turner Classics
Four book set including Fertility Farming, Herdsmanship, Fertility Pastures and Cure Your Own Cattle.

Alternative Treatments for Ruminant Animals
A hands-on reference for anyone at any level of experience who is interested in helping ruminants achieve optimal health naturally.

Cure Your Own Cattle
While the subject of natural veterinary care has grown and matured, Turner's clear and simple systems and advice remind farmers of the true fundamentals that consistently work.

Dirt Hog
A hands-on guide to raising pigs outdoors … naturally.

Fertility Farming
The foundation of the effectiveness of nature's husbandry is a fertile soil- and the measure of a fertile soil is its content of organic matter.

Fertility Pastures
In this book, Turner details his methods of intensive pasture-based production of beef and dairy cows in a practical guide to profitable, labor-saving livestock production.

Herd Bull Fertility
A must for the cattle grower choosing a bull for his breeding program.

Herdsmanship
Turner explains that livestock illness is a result of bad farming practices and that real livestock health begins with true natural farming disciplines.

Holistic Veterinary Care DVD
Strategies and tools for holistic herd health management.

Holistic Veterinary Care PAL DVD
Strategies and tools for holistic herd health management. PAL DVD for international customers in Europe, Australia, etc.

Homeopathy for the Herd
A farmer's guide to non-toxic medicine for beef and dairy cattle.

Homeopathy in Organic Livestock Production
A valuable resource for organic farmers, this book also includes the most common homeopathic remedies and their specific uses for livestock.

Natural Cattle Care
Animal husbandry with analysis of farming practice.

Natural Horse Care
Details ailments, discusses origins, offers natural treatments.

Reproduction & Animal Health
Sustainable cattle production.

Soil Fertility & Animal Health (The Albrecht Papers Vol. II)
How soil fertility links to animal & human health.

The Keys to Herd Health DVD
Essential foundations for livestock operations.

The Keys to Herd Health PAL DVD
Essential foundations for livestock operations.

The Other Side of the Fence DVD
Professor Albrecht’s enduring message. In this 1950s-era film Albrecht explains the high cost of inadequate and imbalanced soil fertility. DVD format for U.S.

The Other Side of the Fence PAL DVD
Overview of Albrecht's work. PAL DVD format for Europe and Australia.

Treating Dairy Cows Naturally (book)
Dr. Karreman lays out a total strategy for assessing and preventing cattle disease, derived from years of working with organically and conventionally managed dairy herds.


The Meat Goat Handbook

All Flesh Is Grass
The pleasures and promises of pasture farming.

Animal Production Systems for Pasture-Based Livestock Production
Chapters include Animal Ecology and Foraging Behavior, Basic Animal Nutrition, Beef Nutrition and Management, Dairy Nutrition and Management as well as chapters on sheep, goats, horses and finally parasite control.

Comeback Farms
Continuing where No Risk Ranching ended, expands on the cattle operation.

Essential Guide to Calving
Knowledge is power, and that is never truer than at 2:00 a.m., when a calving starts to go badly. This book provides a resource farmers will rely upon again and again to help them handle crisis situations.

Forage Production for Pasture-Based Livestock Production
Covers every aspect of forage production. This book focuses on plant morphology and its effects on management; ecology of plant communities; soils and soil fertility and more.

Forage Utilization for Pasture-Based Livestock Production
Many questions are answered in this impeccably researched volume from the NRAES series on pastured-based livestock production, which includes contributions by 21 authors.

Grass-Based Dairy Farming
Grass-based farming has caught the attention of many conventional and would-be farmers. The farmers who wrote this book are asked dozens of questions hundreds of times. Their answers are contained in this book.

Grass-Fed Cattle
Everything a farmer needs to know about raising, managing and marketing grass-fed cattle.

Greener Pastures on Your Side of the Fence
Pasture management for cattle and plants.

How To Raise Rabbits
Whether the goal is to raise one rabbit or dozens, this book offers expert advice on caring for and showing this popular farm animal.

Humane Livestock Handling
Improve your livestock operations as well as the profitability of your farm by raising healthier, more contented animals.

Knowledge Rich Ranching
How to financially succeed in the cattle business today.

Managing and Marketing for Pasture-Based Livestock Production
The first of a four-part series on pastured-based livestock production from NRAES, this information-packed volume provides fundamental and essential information a producer needs to manage and market a goal-oriented forage-livestock system.

Organic Dairy Farming
Manual for organic alternatives to dairy agribusiness.

Organic Dairy Production
Detailed manual on organic dairying in the Northeast.

Organic Livestock Handbook
Explains principles of organic livestock husbandry.

Pasture Perfect
Details the benefits of grazing animals without supplemental feed.

Pasture Profits with Stocker Cattle
Make money regardless of the price of cattle.

Quality Pasture
Low-cost tactics create high-energy pasture.

Salad Bar Beef (book)
Innovative prototype for small cow herd operation.

Small-Scale Livestock Farming
Grass-based approach to health, sustainability profit.

Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats
A practical guide covering all the basics for raising healthy, productive dairy goats from breed selection, fencing and housing to disease diagnosis and treatment to turning milk into cheese and butter.

Storey's Guide to Raising Meat Goats
Meat goat production is one of the oldest and most widespread of the animal enterprises in the world. At this point, it is the fastest growing animal enterprise in the United States.

Storey's Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep Goats Cattle and Pigs
Comprehensive, colorful and captivating, this guide is informative enough to aid in breed selection, but beautiful and browsable enough to keep on the coffee table.

Storey's Working Animals Livestock Guardians
Well-trained hardworking dogs, donkeys, and llamas are an increasingly popular and effective solution to livestock predation. These guardian animals protect sheep, goats, and other livestock from wolves, bears, coyotes and many smaller predators.

The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm & Stable
Exhaustive materia medica botanica.

The Donkey Companion
Why donkeys? People keep donkeys for adventure, as a business, or to protect vulnerable animals like sheep, alpacas, and goats. Donkeys are friendly, dependable, intelligent, and easy to care for.

The Polyface Farm DVD
Profiles all aspects of the Salatins' Polyface Farm.

The Sheep Book
Handbook for the modern shepherd.

You Can Farm
Entrepreneur's guide to family farm business.











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