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Agriscience: Fundamentals & Applications, 4th ed. By L. DeVere Burton and Elmer L. Cooper Thomson Defmar Learning, 2005, 803 pages, hardback
Agriscience: Fundamentals and Applications is an excellent textbook for first-time agriculture education students. It is a well written general agriscience text that introduces students to air quality, conservation, wildlife management, Integrated Pest Management, plant science, animal science, and food science among many others topics. For an agriscience textbook it seems that sometimes the focus may tend to be more about agriculture literacy or even agriculture production, but if the text is used for beginners in agricultural education I can see how it would be hard to separate the science from the literacy and production aspects of agriculture.
The major strength of this...