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e-newsletter edition 2, November 2007
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Welcome, we hope that this e-newsletter is a useful information connection for you. After a busy couple of months attending the Adelaide Show & Field Days around the State it's nice to be settling back into routine again in the office, although we will be attending a new field day on the 25th of November - "The Hills Garden & Environmental Expo" being held at the Uraidla Showgrounds 10am-4pm, drop by and say hello if you are visiting.
Here are a selection of new publications in at the Centre - don't forget we are happy to source rural publications for you if we don't stock them.
Wishing you all a Happy and Safe Christmas!
Regards, Tony, Lisa and Nicky
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Rural Books and Resource Material
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Barnyard in your Backyard
Gail Damerow, Darrell L. Salsbury, Nancy Searle, Paula Simmons, Heather Smith Thomas
Our Price: $39.99
Before you put down money on the hen house, turn a single goat loose in the yard, or fence in a couple of acres for frisky calves, read "Barnyard in your Backyard" the essential primer for the first-time farmers.
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Pests of Field Crops and Pastures
P.T. Bailey
Our Price: $175.00
Identification and Control
This comprehensive handbook on economic entomology for Australian field crops and pastures is the first of its kind. It encompasses pest and beneficial insects as well as allied forms of importance in Australian agriculture.
Organised by commodities - such as cereals, sugar and tropical pasture legumes - it examines all the pest species for a particular commodity across Australia. Identification, distribution, damage, host range, biology, risk period and monitoring techniques are described for each entry, accompanied by useful illustrations.
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Poultry Breeds
Carol Ekarius
Our Price: $39.99
This definitive guide to North American Barnyard and wild fowl includes a brief history of each breed, detailed descriptions of identifying characteristics, and colourful photography that celebrates the birds quirky personalitlity and charming good looks. If it's fowl facts and photos you want, you'll find them all here.
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Plot
Meredith Kirton
Our Price: $25.00
Whether you have a courtyard in the inner city or a large suburban garden, this companion title to the best selling "Dig" is full of imaginative but workable ideas about garden design. With twenty garden styles to choose from, and helpful background information on all aspects of making and designing a garden "plot" can be used as both a comprehensive reference guide and a constant source of inspiration.
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Hand Tool Essentials
Paul Anthony, Lonnie Bird, Graham Blackburn, David Charlesworth, Adam Cherubini, Scott Gibson, Roger Holmes, Frank Klausz, Don Mcconnell, Rick Peters, Christopher Schwarz, Paul Sellers, Harrison Stanley, Jim Stuart
Our Price: $39.99
In "Hand tools Essentials" you'll learn how to choose and use hand tools for chopping, cutting, paring, sawing, marking, drilling and more. Many of the tools are familiar, but others will surprise you with their usefulness. Though they've been around for hundreds of years, these tools have gotten lost in the rush of the industrial revolution. Rediscovering the value of these tools in your woodworking will also give you a better understanding of how your power tools work.
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Raising Meat Goats
Maggie Sayer
Our Price: $34.95
Managing - Breeding - Marketing
The demand for tasty, low-fat goat meat is rapidly growing and, compared to other livestock, meat goats are inexpensive to buy, easy to handle, and less labour intensive. They require less pasture than cattle, and, as browsers, can also share pasture with horses or cows. Furthermore, their gestation period is relatively short, offering a quick return on your initial investment. And the friendly inquisitive nature of meat goats makes them an enjoyable addition to any size farm.
In this essential handbook, author Maggie Sayer covers every aspect of acquiring, caring for, managing, and marketing meat goats.
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Sea Fishes of South Australia
Barry Hutchins & Roger Swainston
Our Price: $29.95
The first complete guide to the fishes of Australia's southern half the book covers, over 700 species with 1000 colour illustrations, dangerous fishes and first aid, fish deformities and parasites, fish preservation and photography, australia record sizes, edibility.
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Farm Dogs
Carol Davis & Norvia Behling
Our Price: $29.99
A Celebration of the Farm's Hardest Worker
"Farm Dogs : A Celebration of the Farm's hardest Worker"; applauds all farm dogs everywhere! Ask anyone who grew up on a farm: We all know that dogs play a starring role in keeping the farm running.
And dogs themselves rarely stop running! From sheep and cattle dogs, with their herding instincts and training, to livestock -guarding dogs, with their fierce loyalty and protective nature, to all the other dogs, whether purebred or mutt, who simply provide great companionship in doing and determination when it comes to jobs on the farm.
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Contact Us for Information Connection
The Online Bookshop and Resource Centre provides access to our publications, software and video sales 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Visit the Online Shop now: http://www.ruralsolutions.sa.gov.au/bookshop
We are located at Norton Rd , Roseworthy Campus, Adelaide University , Roseworthy.
Office Hours: 8:45am - 4:30pm Monday - Friday.
Phone (Toll Free): 1800 356 446 or 8303 7624
Email: farmer.info@saugov.sa.gov.au
The Centre has facilities available and can assist with:
- Product launches
- Conferences
- Distribution of information products
- Industry events
- Information searching
Information is available from a wide variety of sources including PIRSA, DWLBC and other Government Agencies, CSIRO, Universities, Research and Development organisations (CRC's, RIRDS, GRDC), TopCrop, the Kondinin Group and many more. 
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