This page brings together free online books, topic searches, audiobooks, and Open Access resources related to farming and agriculture. Topics include crop production, livestock, dairy farming, poultry, soils, irrigation, farm management, agricultural machinery, and rural life. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
Sections below Topics provide links to related audiobooks and modern Open Access books. See those sections for more information.
Topics – Agriculture Books PDF – Farmbooks – Agriculturebooks
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to farming and agriculture. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
- Aerial photography in agriculture
- Aeronautics in agriculture
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural development projects
- Agricultural diversification
- Agricultural experiment stations
- Agricultural implements
- Agricultural information networks
- Agricultural instruments
- Agricultural intensification
- Agricultural machinery
- Agricultural prices
- Agricultural productivity
- Agricultural resources
- Agricultural services
- Agricultural virology
- Agriculture – Costs
- Agriculture – Custom rates
- Agriculture – International cooperation
- Agroforestry
- Agronomy
- Alternative agriculture
- Animal waste
- Antibiotics in agriculture
- Aquaculture
- Arid regions agriculture
- Botany, Economic
- Chemurgy
- Classification – Books – Agriculture
- Climatic changes – Effect of agriculture on
- Cold regions agriculture
- Collective farms
- Communication in agriculture
- Communism and agriculture
- Community-supported agriculture
- Comparative agriculture
- Cooperative cold-storage lockers
- Cooperative marketing of farm produce
- Copper in agriculture
- Crop improvement
- Crop residues
- Crop rotation
- Crop science
- Cropping systems
- Dairy waste
- Dairying, Cooperative
- Electricity in agriculture
- Electronics in agriculture
- Explosives in agriculture
- Farm equipment
- Farm management
- Farm manure
- Farm mechanization, Cooperative
- Farm produce
- Farm produce – Marketing
- Farm rents
- Farm supplies
- Farm tenancy – Economic aspects
- Farms
- Farms, Size of
- Floodplain agriculture
- Forests and forestry
- Forests and forestry, Cooperative
- Gleaning
- Goat farming
- Grain elevators, Cooperative
- Grazing
- Green Revolution
- Harvesting
- Herb farming
- Hill farming
- Horticulture
- Integrated agricultural systems
- Internet in agriculture
- Irrigation farming
- Land capability for agriculture
- Livestock
- Livestock systems
- Meadows
- Minerals in agriculture
- Molybdenum in agriculture
- Motion pictures in agriculture
- Mycorrhizas in agriculture
- Natural products in agriculture
- Nitrogen in agriculture
- Optics in agriculture
- Organic farming
- Part-time farming
- Pastures
- Phosphorus in agriculture
- Plant breeding
- Plant spacing
- Planting (Plant culture)
- Plants, Cultivated
- Plants, Protection of
- Potassium in agriculture
- Precision farming
- Private plot agriculture
- Produce trade
- Radar in agriculture
- Radio in agriculture
- Radioactive tracers in agriculture
- Radioisotopes in agriculture
- Raised field agriculture
- Ranching
- Rice farming
- Saponins in agriculture
- Seed technology
- Selenium in agriculture
- Shifting cultivation
- Silvicultural systems
- Soil science
- Solar energy in agriculture
- Space agriculture
- Subsistence farming
- Sulfur in agriculture
- Sustainable agriculture
- Tillage
- Tillage
- Traditional farming
- Tree crops
- Urban agriculture
- Volunteer workers in agriculture
- Water in agriculture
- Wetland agriculture
- Women in agriculture
- Zinc in agriculture
Classic Farming Audiobooks
These audiobook links lead to public domain recordings from LibriVox at Internet Archive. The books recorded by Librivox volunteers were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include livestock raising, crops, dairying, forestry, ranching, and horticulture.
All Librivox audiobooks are free and can be streamed online or downloaded for offline listening.
Open Access Ag Textbooks and Agriculture Free Books to Download
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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