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Sustainable Agriculture | Public Policy and Rural Development | Farming, Ranching, Marketing, Alternative Income

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Sustainable Agriculture

Some of our publications can be read on-line, some are available only by mail, while some are available both ways. Many publications online are in the PDF format, which can be read with Adobe Acrobat Reader. This software is free and can be downloaded at www.adobe.com. Informational packets are not on-line.

Most Kerr Center publications may be ordered from our office free of charge. For reports and information packets, we charge a $2 shipping and handling fee for the first one, $1 for each additional.

See order form for a list of titles.

Future Farms 2002: A Supermarket of Ideas Conference Proceedings. 138 pgs. Over fifty presentations on crops, livestock, poultry, and fish, marketing and value-added ideas, and alternative enterprises such as nature and agri-tourism. (Some individual presentations from the proceedings are on-line; check subject area.)
Future Farms 2000 Conference Proceedings. (r)Edited by Maura McDermott. Innovative, successful marketing systems, livestock and cropping systems, and natural resource management. Also building sustainable rural communities. Papers by participants including Joel Salatin, John Ikerd, W. Joe Lewis and Marion Jay, Walt Davis, Steve Groff, Max Carter, Russell L. Stevens, John R. Dunkin, Jim Robinson, Dan Nagengast, Rodney B. Holcomb, Alex Hitt, Peggy and Richard Sechrist, La Rhea Pepper. Preface by Jim Horne.
The Next Green Revolution: Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture by James E. Horne, PhD and Maura McDermott. Published by Haworth/Food Products Press, 2001. 312 pgs, bibliography. Foreword by John E. Ikerd, PhD. An accessible, practical introduction to sustainable agriculture. For use as an adjunct text in agriculture, environmental science, rural sociology courses; also for the general reader with an interest in agriculture or the environment.
People Sustaining the Land by Cynthia Vagnetti and Jerry DeWitt. 118 pgs. Exceptional photographs and oral histories of twenty-six farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

"…the farm families in People Sustaining the Land possess a keen sense of observation in the tool box of scientific skills they apply in their daily lives of caring for the land, the crops, the animals, their family, and their local community." –Cynthia Vagnetti

For more information: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9907/gift01.htm

72 Ways To Make Agriculture Sustainable (fs)
by Maura McDermott and Jim Horne.
Steps to A Sustainable Agriculture (newsletter article)
by Jim Horne.
Sustainable Agriculture & Industrial Agriculture: How They Compare (fs)
by Jim Horne and Maura McDermott.
"Ten Years of Change"
(keynote luncheon speech given by Jim Horne to SARE 10th Anniversary Conference, March 5, 1998) His experience with SARE and sustainable agriculture.

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