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Books on small grain growing

 
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Hi everyone.  Is Gene Logsden's book on small scale grain growing worth getting, has anyone found a book they felt was more informative than that one?  (Or can I learn everything I need to know right here? :)
Just going to start browsing the threads.  I'm interested mainly in growing smallish amounts for supplemental poultry feed, though wouldn't mind the occasional oats ourselves, or corn though.  My first attempt at corn last year was very lacklustre, but I did pick the colourful glass gem variety or whatever it is, and my pump broke in late summer so I wasn't watering enough, but it was already showing quite a marked variability in growth.  Oats seems to do fairly well here and I enjoyed making a milky oat tincture the other year....
 
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I also have this title, by Storey Publishing (c 2009, 167 pp.):

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Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn & More

Small, but has plenty of charts, drawings, information, and even some recipes.
 
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You can read older textbooks on the Internet Archive for free. I have found for my purposes books written in the 1800s through about 1940 most useful, since they deal with old varieties, and no pesticides. There is also a huge variety of newer materials geared towards 'organic' farmers.

https://openlibrary.org/

Google Scholar is also very helpful for older textbooks.
 
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I bought Gene lodgsons book and I found it very helpful, it's a lot of actual information about growing grains and beans and you can tell it was written by someone who has done it their whole life.
 
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