Books

[Dave6170]

Anyone recommend good farming related books? Have got into books this winter for the first time in all my life

I have read the resilient farm, dirt to soil and cows save the planet. I have ordered English pastoral aswell. A friend is going to loan me holistic management by Alan savoury.

 

[ARW]

Farmers glory by A G Street is a great read
Also anything by Henry Brewis

 

[steveR]

Look up and find anything by the late John Cherrington. Scent of an Oily Rag, is a good starter...

AG Street books for another historical viewpoint.

Nothing new in farming in many ways....

 

[steveR]

Farmers glory by A G Street is a great read
Also anything by Henry Brewis

Forgot Brewis. He put me off sheep keeping for 40 years!!!!

 

[Al R]

If you like sheep.

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[Av Gorritt]

Farmers glory by A G Street is a great read
Also anything by Henry Brewis

Going back a day or two there ARW ! Wartime ? There was a yacht sale in Mallorca a few years back , and one of the craft there (not for sale ) was called "Funny way t'mek a livin' " I always wondered if it belonged to Henry Brewis .

 

[Bury the Trash]

From a Slightly different angle, but an excellent read imo and I found it inspiring, ( when I was younger ) one of Thomas Firbank 's books, ' I bought a mountain' .

 

[delilah]

The worm forgives the plough.
The farmer, the plough and the devil
(both an excellent read, and nothing to do with DD ) .

 

[Dave6170]

Really enjoyed dirt to soil and cows save the planet. Especially appropriate these days aswell

 

[steveR]

The worm forgives the plough.
The farmer, the plough and the devil
(both an excellent read, and nothing to do with DD ) .

The first rang a bell...

Looked it up, and I'm pretty sure I came across it at CAT in their bookshop on one of my visits there. Had a copy here, but long gone now. Lent I expect.

 

[delilah]

If you like your cows: The secret life of cows by Rosamund Young.

 

[delilah]

The first rang a bell...

Looked it up, and I'm pretty sure I came across it at CAT in their bookshop on one of my visits there. Had a copy here, but long gone now. Lent I expect.

the second one can't be set a million miles from you.

 

[steveR]

If you like your cows: The secret life of cows by Rosamund Young.

My daughter who is a Bovine Buff has had 2 copies given to her, but couldn't read it

Made her tense apparently...

 

[farmerdan7618]

These are good for a farming related laugh.

 

[Dave6170]

Has anyone read the call of the Reed warbler?

 

[Dave6170]

If you like your cows: The secret life of cows by Rosamund Young.

Ordered that. Only £6.99 online

 

[steveR]

the second one can't be set a million miles from you.

Not far, we go past his place on the way to Market Drayton with stock!

He was a funny old fella, but literally, "ploughed his own furrow"! I had even bought some of his store cattle, usually poor nick, but a whiff of wormer and some grass, and they grew away

His kids seem to be making a go of the new enterprise, nice looking stock about and smart new buildings gone up.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Seventy Summers by Tony Harman, it is out of print but you might find it on Amazon.

The latest book by James Rebanks, however you may not agree with all of it!

 

[SilliamWhale]

Has anyone read the call of the Reed warbler?

Yes some of it. First bit is excellent.

 

[steveR]

Never read it... but I believe there is a farming theme there...

Brokeback Mountain......?