Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Rural<br />
The<br />
Pocket-sized and<br />
portable second<br />
opinions for<br />
weed, insect<br />
and other farm<br />
challenges<br />
There’s advice, and then<br />
there is good advice – in<br />
other words, information<br />
based on science and<br />
research when it comes to<br />
the technical side of farming.<br />
This edition of “The Rural Reader”<br />
is going to focus on some titles you<br />
can put in your coat pocket, throw on<br />
the dashboard of the pickup, or tuck<br />
in the storage compartment in the<br />
tractor or combine cab.<br />
Midwest university cooperative<br />
extension publishing has taken a page<br />
from the private sector in design and<br />
marketing research-based publications.<br />
If you’re old enough to remember<br />
the old farmer’s bulletins of the<br />
USDA and similar state extension<br />
publications, these new books are<br />
BY LOWELL CARSLON<br />
EASTERN IOWA FARMER COLUMNIST<br />
nothing like them whatsoever. Good<br />
photos and graphics, sturdily bound –<br />
they will be used.<br />
They’re quite often handy,<br />
durable and reasonably<br />
priced<br />
and<br />
94 EASTERN IOWA FARMER | SPRING 2024 eifarmer.com
Change language