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    Farm Organization and Management - Land and Its Equipment - With Information on Costs, Stocking, Machinery and Labour
    Farm Organization and Management - Land and Its Equipment - With Information on Costs, Stocking, Machinery and Labour
    Farm Organization and Management - Land and Its Equipment - With Information on Costs, Stocking, Machinery and Labour
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    Farm Organization and Management - Land and Its Equipment - With Information on Costs, Stocking, Machinery and Labour

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    This vintage text comprises a detailed treatise on running a farm, with information on costs, stocking, machinery, labour, and many other things conducive to the successful running and management of a profitable farm. This detailed guide contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of considerable value to both existing and prospective farmers, making it a must-read for those interested in the topic and a great addition to collections of agricultural literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Land and Its Equipment', 'Competition by the New World', 'World Food and Agriculture', 'Land', 'Land Use - Game', 'Land Use - Forestry', 'Market Gardens', 'Agricultural Lands', 'Tillage and Grass', 'Capital', 'Tenant's Capital', 'Work Animals and Tractors', etcetera. We are proudly republishing this antiquarian volume, now complete with a new introduction on farming.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473354289
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      Farm Organization and Management - Land and Its Equipment - With Information on Costs, Stocking, Machinery and Labour - Read Books Ltd.

      Farm Organization and Management–Land and Its Equipment

      With Information on Costs,

      Stocking, Machinery and Labour

      By

      James A. S. Watson

      &

      James A. More

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Farming

      Agriculture, also called farming or husbandry, is the cultivation of animals, plants, or fungi for fibre, biofuel, drugs and other products used to sustain and enhance human life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. It is hence, of extraordinary importance for the development of society, as we know it today. The word agriculture is a late Middle English adaptation of Latin agricultūra, from ager, ‘field’, and cultūra, ‘cultivation’ or ‘growing’. The history of agriculture dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by vastly different climates, cultures, and technologies. However all farming generally relies on techniques to expand and maintain the lands that are suitable for raising domesticated species. For plants, this usually requires some form of irrigation, although there are methods of dryland farming. Livestock are raised in a combination of grassland-based and landless systems, in an industry that covers almost one-third of the world’s ice- and water-free area.

      Agricultural practices such as irrigation, crop rotation, fertilizers, pesticides and the domestication of livestock were developed long ago, but have made great progress in the past century. The history of agriculture has played a major role in human history, as agricultural progress has been a crucial factor in worldwide socioeconomic change. Division of labour in agricultural societies made (now) commonplace specializations, rarely seen in hunter-gatherer cultures, which allowed the growth of towns and cities, and the complex societies we call civilizations. When farmers became capable of producing food beyond the needs of their own families, others in their society were freed to devote themselves to projects other than food acquisition. Historians and anthropologists have long argued that the development of agriculture made civilization possible.

      In the developed world, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture has become the dominant system of modern farming, although there is growing support for sustainable agriculture, including permaculture and organic agriculture. Until the Industrial Revolution, the vast majority of the human population laboured in agriculture. Pre-industrial agriculture was typically for self-sustenance, in which farmers raised most of their crops for their own consumption, instead of cash crops for trade. A remarkable shift in agricultural practices has occurred over the past two centuries however, in response to new technologies, and the development of world markets. This also has led to technological improvements in agricultural techniques, such as the Haber-Bosch method for synthesizing ammonium nitrate which made the traditional practice of recycling nutrients with crop rotation and animal manure less important.

      Modern agronomy, plant breeding, agrochemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, and technological improvements have sharply increased yields from cultivation, but at the same time have caused widespread ecological damage and negative human health effects. Selective breeding and modern practices in animal husbandry have similarly increased the output of meat, but have raised concerns about animal welfare and the health effects of the antibiotics, growth hormones, and other chemicals commonly used in industrial meat production. Genetically Modified Organisms are an increasing component of agriculture today, although they are banned in several countries. Another controversial issue is ‘water management’; an increasingly global issue fostering debate. Significant degradation of land and water resources, including the depletion of aquifers, has been observed in recent decades, and the effects of global warming on agriculture and of agriculture on global warming are still not fully understood.

      The agricultural world of today is at a cross roads. Over one third of the worlds workers are employed in agriculture, second only to the services sector, but its future is uncertain. A constantly growing world population is necessitating more and more land being utilised for growth of food stuffs, but also the burgeoning mechanised methods of food cultivation and harvesting means that many farming jobs are becoming redundant. Quite how the sector will respond to these challenges remains to be seen.

      Contents

      Farming

      LAND AND ITS EQUIPMENT

      FARM ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

      LAND AND ITS EQUIPMENT

      THOSE who choose farming as a vocation do so for various reasons. To make a living, or a financial profit, is very often the chief motive, but it is rarely the only one. Many people, indeed, find in farming satisfactions that cannot be measured in terms of money or material things. In this book, however, we are concerned not with farming as a complete way of life but only with its technical and business aspects.

      It has often been pointed out that technical skill in the production of crops and live-stock products does not of itself ensure financial success in farming. Such success depends also upon competence in the organization and management of the farm as an integrated business. Such competence derives partly from personal qualities—for example, the gift of inspiring the confidence and winning the co-operation of the farm staff, and the inborn powers of judgment that are required in weighing alternative plans and reaching sound decisions. But it is also true that management, to be successful, must be based upon economic and business principles, and it is these principles that form the subject-matter of this section.

      Something must first be said about the various particular objectives that farmers, according to their varying circumstances, may have in mind, and about the origins and development of our present-day farming systems in this country.

      Agriculture, which dates from early neolithic times, was originally adopted as a more reliable way of securing the necessities of life than the older economy which was based on hunting, fishing, and the collecting of seeds, roots, etc. The early cultivating peoples grew such plants as cereals, pulses, roots, and other vegetables for food, and cultivated flax, cotton, or some other fibre plant for clothing. They built their huts out of the most easily available materials, thatching them in

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