PFI Sustainable Agriculture Library
24629 180th St
Minburn, IA 50167

librarian@smallpotatoesfarm.com
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1. PFI members may select as many books they think they can read books, below.
Friends of PFI or the farm, students, etc... may also request books.
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requests to Small Potatoes Farm.

2. Within seven days, we'll mail you the requested literature.

3. Books, etc... can be held for up to 6 months.  Borrowers are responsible to mail them
back. The cost to the borrower is return postage plus the cost the library spent to send
them to you. Put the amount to the nearest dollar in the books you are returning.

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5. We welcome new books, etc... as donations to the library. Its solely up to the
librarian to determine whether they are suitable for cataloging into the collection.
Title
Author
Date
Status
The Biobased Economy of the Twenty-First
Century: Agriculture Expanding into Health,
Energy, Chemicals, and Materials
Eaglesham, Allan et.al.
2000
 
Swine System Options for Iowa 1999:
Proceedings of a conference held February
17, 1999 at Iowa State University
  1999
 
Partners and Neighbors: Agency and
Producer Contributions toward Sustaining
Agriculture  
SARE, PFI, ISU Extension
1998
 
Marketing U.S. Agriculture
  1998
 
A Guide to USDA and Other Federal
Resource for Sustainable Agriculture and
Forestry Enterprises
Vysatova, Romana A; Greenberg Laurie S.Z.   
            
1998
 
A Farmer's Guide to Quality Oat Production
And Resource Guide
Doetch, R.G. and Kane, D.J.
1998
 
Genetically Engineered Foods: Are they
Safe? You decide.
Ticciati, Laura & Tiacciati, Robin, Ph.D.
1998
 
Solviva: How to Grow $500,000 on One Acre
and Peace on Earth
Edey, Anna
1998
 
Sustainable Agriculture, In-Service Training   
 
ISU Extension
1997
 
Emerging Markets for Family Farms:
Opportunities to Propser Through Social and
Environmental Responsibility   
O'Neill, Kelly
1997
 
More Profit With Less Tillage
Behn, Ernest E.
1997
 
Technical Resources for Sustainable
Agricultre in Iowa                     
Iowa State University Extension                         
            
1997
 
Steel in the Field: A Farmer's Guide to Weed
Management Tools
Bowman, Greg
1997
 
New Partnership For Sustainable Agriculture  
                           
Thrupp, Lori Ann
1996  
 
Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture with
Conventional Financial Data    
Levins, Dick  
1996
 
Farmers for the Future
Looker, Dan
1996
 
Outdoor Pig Production: an approach that
works
ISU
1996
 
Swine System Options for Iowa: Proceedings
of a conference held February 21, 1996 at
Iowa State University
ISU
1996
 
Weeds: Control Without Poison
Walters, Charles
1996
Checked out
Extension And Education Materials For
Sustainable Agriculture Volume 4    
Carter, Heidi; Francis, Charles
1995
 
Everyone a Teacher, Everyone a Learner:
SARE Training Program   
Carter, Heidi, and Francis, Charles     
1995    
 
52 Ways to Accelerate Sales: How to Build a
Product or Service Business Without Giving
Away the Store
Reese, Peter
1995
 
Crop Residue Management To Reduc
Erosion and Improve Soil Quality: North
Central                                        
Moldenhauer W.C.; Mielke, L.N.       
1995
 
Alternative Approaches to On-Farm
Research and Technology Exchange  
Francis, Charles, et. Al.  
1995  
 
Landowner's Guide to Wind Energy In the
Upper Midwest
Lange, Nancy and Grant, William
1995
 
Planting the Future: Developing an
Agriculture that Sustains Land and
Community
Bird, Elizabeth Ann R.
1995
 
Quality Pasture: How to Create it, manage it,
and profit from it
Nation, Allan
1995
Checked out
Salad Bar Beef
Salatin, Joel
1995
 
The Agri-Preneur's Prosperity Manual
Reese, Peter
1995
 
A Better Row to Hoe: The Economic,
Environmental, and Social Impact of
Sustainable Agriculture   
The Northwest Area Foundation  
1994
 
The Soul of the Soil: A Guide to Ecological
Soil Management
Gershuny, Grace & Smillie, Joseph
1995
 
Crop Tree Management in Eastern
Hardwoods                                                      
                                         
Perkey, Arlyn and Wilkins, Brenda                    
          
1993
 
Taking Stock: The North American Livestock
Census                                                            
                                       
Bixby, Donald, Christman, Carolyn,
Ehrman,Cynthia     
1994
 
A Better Row to Hoe: The Economic,
Environmental, and Social Impact of
Sustainable Agriculture            
The Northwest Area Foundation
1994
 
Alternative Agriculture                                     
                                                                        
    
National Research Council       
1989
 
Hands-On Agronomy
Kinsey, Neal & Walters, Charles
1993
 
What Really Happens When You Cut
Chemicals (2 copies)
Shirley, Christopher
1993
 
Which Row to Hoe? A Regional Perspective
on Alternative Directions in Commercial
Agriculture              (2 copies)                         
                          
The Northwest Area Foundation     
1992   
 
The Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems
Trial: Second Report                                       
                                  
Lakeland Ag. Complex Arlington Research
Station                    
1992
 
The Iowa Cattle Industry: Vision for the
Future                                                             
                                           
The Iowa Beef Industry Task Force                   
    
1992
 
The Hedgerow Project: A Review of the
Literature                
Ronneberg, Erik  
1992    
 
The Corporate Reapers: The Book of
Agribusiness           
Krebs, A.V.
1992  
 
How to Start On a Shoestring and Make a
Profit With Hydroponics      
  1992
 
Amish Houses & Barns                                    
                                                      
Scott, Stephens                                    
1992
 
A Livestock Producer's Legal Guide to
Nusiance, Land Use Control, and
Environmental Law (2 copies)      
Hamilton, Neil D.      
1992  
 
50 Farming Techniques from the Americas
White, Richard
1992
 
How to Save Your Own Vegetable Seeds
Heritage Seed Program
1992
Checked out
Pasture Profits With Stocker Cattle
Nation, Allan
1992
 
Prairies, Forests, and Wetlands: The
Restoration of Natural Landscape
Communities in Iowa
Thompson, Janette R.
1992
 
Science in Agriculture: The Professional
Edge
Anderson, Arden B.
1992
 
The Big "O" Ostrich Farm
American Ostrich Association
1992
 
Your Horse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Horse
Ownership    
Chapple, Judy  
1991
 
Sustainable Agriculture Research and
Education in the Field                             
National Research Council                         
1991
 
A Guide to the Selection of Best
Management Practices to Improve and
Protect Water Quality             
Longabucco, Patricia         
1991
 
Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce & Agriculture:
who will produce tomorrow's food?
Gussow, Joan Dye
1991
 
Controlling Weeds with Fewer Chemicals   
Cramer, Craig  
1991
 
Greening the Garden: A Guide to
Sustainable Growing                 
Jason, Dan
1991
 
Introduction to Permaculture   
Mollison, Bill        
1991
 
Pastured Poultry Manual: The Polyface
Model                                                              
                                                         
Salatin, Joel F.
1991
 
Turning Wool Into A Cottage Industry             
                             
Simmons, Paula
1991
 
Your Profitable Farming Checklist                   
                                                            
Cramer, Craig                                        
1991
 
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People           
                                               
Covey, Stephen
1990
Checked out
Shift-Trellises for Better Management of
Brambles (Rubus cvs.)                                    
                                                  
Stiles, H.D.
1990
 
How to Discover Money-Saving
Opportunities: A Farmer's Guide to On-Farm
Research                    
Janke, Rhonda; Thompson, Dick   
1990
 
From the Ground Up: Wisonsin Sust.
Farmers Tell of Their Practice and Vision       
                                            
Irwin, Mike          
1990
 
Amaranth: Perspectives on Production,
Processing and Marketing                               
                                     
Minnesota Extension Service        
1990
 
Holistic Management: A New Farmework for
Decision Making           
Savory, Allan with Butterfield, Jody        
1990
 
Holistic Resource Management Workbook (2
copies)                                                            
                                                
Bingham, Sam with Savoy, Allan           
1990
 
Shattering Food, Politics, and the Loss of
Genetic Diversity                                             
                                                           
Fowler, Cary and Moony, Pat               
1990
 
Transition to Sustainable Farming Practices
in Iowa: A Research Proposal Submitted to
the Northwest Area Foundation by ISU and
PFI         
  1989  
 
The Anatomy of Life & Energy in Agriculture   
                         
Anderson, Arden B.   
1989
Checked out
American Minor Breeds Notebook                   
                       
Heise, Laurie; Christman, Carol       
1989
 
Alternative Agriculture        
National Research Council       
1989
 
Outdoor Pig Production    
Thorton, Keith
1988
 
Amish Horsefarming Across America               
                                              
Zielinski, John M.            
1988
 
Soils & Men            
THE NEW FARM
1988
 
Future Perfect                                                 
                         
Davis, Stanley M.
1987
 
Greener Pastures on Your Side of the
Fence: Better Farming with Voisin Grazing
Management                                                   
                                     
Murphy, Bill
1987
 
How To Make $100,000 Farming 25 Acres     
                                                                        
                                          
Whatley, Booker T.
1987
 
Adaptioo-Ag Diversification Adds Profit
Today, 100 ideas for farmers                          
                      
Krumme, Richard
1986
 
How to Save $42 an Acre (article) (2 copies)  
                                                                   
Liebhardt, William C. and Culk, Martin               
       
1986
 
The End of Corn Rootworm: It's as near as
your next crop (article)                                    
                                            
DeVault, George
1986
 
The Farmer's Fertilizer Handbook--How to
Make Your Own NPK
Reccomendations…AND Make Them
Pay                                                                  
                                                     
THE NEW FARM
1986
 
Spotlighting Alternative Crops                         
                                     
Steel, Sam      
1985
 
Profitable Farming Now
New Farm
1985
 
The Sheep Raiser's Manual                            
                                                 
Kruesi, William K.
1985
 
A Guide to Ridge Tillage                
Huseby, Ed  
1984
 
A Practical Guide to Novel Soil Amendments
(2 copies)                                                        
                         
McAllister, Janet C.
1983
 
A Little Phosphorus Goes a Long Way
(article)                                                            
                                              
DeVault, George
1983
 
Beginning Shepherd's Manual                        
                 
Smith, Barbara
1983
 
Nitrates-A Needless Danger                            
                                              
Zahradnik, Fred
1983
 
The Farming Game                                         
                                        
Jones, Byran
1982
 
How to Plan, Implement & Practice Controlled
Grazing on Your Place                                    
                           
Kingsbery, Bob
1982
 
Minimum Tillage Farming (bound with
No-Tillage Farming)                     
Hayes, William A.  
1982
 
Potassium: A Case of Too Much, Too Often
(article)                                                            
                                 
DeVault, George   
1982
 
Rabbits: for food and profit                
Schwanz, Lee
1982
 
Spinning for Softness and Spead and Speed
                                                                        
                               
Simmons, Paula
1982
 
The never-never land of N (article)         
DeVault, George
1981
 
Using Manure Resources Wisely                     
   (2 copies)                                                     
                                           
NEW FARM Magazine
1981
 
Fuel from Farms-A Guide to Small Scale
Ethanol Production                         
Solar Energy Research Institute
1980
 
Foal To Five Years                  
Hyland, Ann
1980  
 
Build-It-Yourself Homestead           
Organic Gardening Magazine
1980
 
New Roots for Agriculture                 
Jackson, Wes
1980
 
20 Most Asked Questions about the Amish
and Mennonites                      
Good, Merle and Phyllis                       
1978
 
Farm Inventions in the Making of America       
                                                              
Johnson, Paul C.          
1976
 
Farm Animals in the Making of America          
                                                                        
                                           
Johnson, Paul C.
1975  
 
No-Tillage Farming                                          
                                                                        
     
Young, H.M. Jr.
1973
 
Alfalfa Science and Technology    
Hanson, Charles H.
1972
 
Grass Productivity                                           
                                                                        
  
Voisin, Andre   
1959
 
Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture             
                                                                        
                                 
Smith, J. Russell  
1950
 
A Sand County Almanac                                 
                                                                        
           
Loepold, Aldo    
1949
 
Textbook of Botany                                         
                                                                       
Transeau, Sampson & Tiffany              
1940
 
76 Proven Ways To Make More Money From
Your Farm                                                       
                                  
The New Farm
  Checked out
Alternatives for American Agriculture: CASI
Soil Analysis Training     
Christian Agriculture Stewardship Institute
   
Biotechnology's Bitter Harvest:
Herbicide-Tolerant Crops and the Threat to
Sustainable Agriculture         
Goldburg, Rebecca et.al.
   
A Gentler Way--Sows on Pasture: Reports
from Sustainable Farmers from Minnesota &
Iowa                                                                 
               
Ault, Dwight and Becky                                      
  
   
Controlled Grazing        Grazing (4 copies)     
                                                                   
"Farming for the Future"                                 
       
     
Fit For A Pig: Low-Cost/Sustainable
Strategies of Resourceful Hog Farmers          
                                           
Gralla, Shawn    
   
Ridge Till (a collection of articles)                   
                                                                        
                             
  1990s
 
Recent Additions
Women and Farming: Changing roles,
changing structures
Wava G. Haney and Jane B. Knowles
1988
 
The Home Place
Wright Morris
1948
 
Eighty Acres: Elegy for a family farm
Ronald Jager
1990
 
Raising Less Corn and More Hell
Jim Schwab
1988
 
Entitled to Power: Farm women and
technology, 1913-1963
Katherine Jellison
1993
 
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas
frontier
Joanna L. Stratton
1981
 
The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern
Illinois, 1890-1990
Jane Adams
1994
 
A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm
Edwin Way Teale
1974
 
Is Their A Moral Obligation to Save the Family
Farm?
Gary Comstock
1987
 
Debt and Dispossession: Farm loss in
America's heartland
Kathryn Marie Dudley
2000
 
Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers
and change in the rural midwest
Deborah Fink
1998
 
Dream Reaper: The story of an old-fashioned
inventor in the high-tech, high-stakes world of
modern agriculture
Craig Canine
1995
 
Making the Corn Belt: A geographical history
of middle-western agriculture
John C. Hudson
1994
 
The Last Farmer: An American memoir
Howard Kohn
1988