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• Alternative Field Crops Manual (illustrated HTML at Purdue)

• Amaranth to Zai Holes: Ideas for Growing Food Under Difficult Conditions, by Laura S. Meitzner and Martin L. Price (HTML at archive.org)

• The Global Diversity of Taro: Ethnobotany and Conservation (Rome: Bioversity International, 2010), ed. by V. Ramanatha Rao, Peter J. Matthews, Pablo B. Eyzaguirre, and Danny Hunter (PDF with commentary at cgiar.org)

• Amaranth to Zai Holes: Ideas for Growing Food Under Difficult Conditions, by Laura S. Meitzner and Martin L. Price (HTML at archive.org)

• Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain for International Trade (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain for International Trade (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain for International Trade (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Cover Crops in West Africa: Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture, ed. by Daniel Buckles, Albert C. Etèka, Olu Osiname, Marcel Galiba, and Norma G. Galiano (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer Innovation with Mucuna, by Daniel Buckles, Bernard Triomphe, and Gustavo Sain (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer Innovation with Mucuna, by Daniel Buckles, Bernard Triomphe, and Gustavo Sain (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Sulfuric Acid Rain Effects on Crop Yield and Foliar Injury (Corvallis, OR: Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ca. 1980), by Jeffrey J. Lee, Grady E. Neely, and Shelton C. Perrigan
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Law of Diminishing Returns (Yonkers-on-Hudson and Chicago: World Book Co., 1924), by W. J. Spillman and Emil Lang
  • page images at Cornell
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, or, An Essay on The Principles of Vegetation and Tillage: Designed to Introduce a New Method of Culture, Whereby the Produce of Land Will Be Increased, and the Usual Expence Lessened ; Together with Accurate Descriptions and Cuts of the Instruments Employed in It (third edition; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751), by Jethro Tull
  • page images at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand (Honolulu: Pub. for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii, ca. 1978), ed. by Peter Kunstadter, E. C. Chapman, and Sanga Sabhasri (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
• Shifting Cultivation in Northern Thailand: Possibilities for Development, by Terry B. Grandstaff (HTML at UNU)

• Impacts of Technology on U.S. Cropland and Rangeland Productivity (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Potential Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Crop Production (OTA-BP-E-118; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Food Values of Breadfruit, Taro Leaves, Coconut, and Sugar Cane (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 64; Honolulu: The Museum, 1929), by Carey D. Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Linen Trade of Europe During the Spinning-Wheel Period (Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson and Orr, 1920), by John Horner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Food Values of Breadfruit, Taro Leaves, Coconut, and Sugar Cane (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 64; Honolulu: The Museum, 1929), by Carey D. Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Front Porch Farmer (Atlanta: T. E. Smith and Co., c1949), by Channing Cope, contrib. by Louis Bromfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, P. C., K. C. B., G. C. M. G., Sometime Minister at the Court of Morocco (London: J. Murray, 1896), by Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay Brooks and Alice Emily Drummond-Hay (page images at Google)

• Bread the Staff of Life (New York: American Tract Society, 1829) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Recherches sur les Céréales Roumaines: Les Blés et Leurs Farines, le Mais et l'Orge (in French; Bucharest: Institut d'Arts Graphiqus "Eminescu", 1900), by Vlad Carnu-Munteanu and Corneliu Roman
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Grain Growers' Coöperation in Western Canada (Harvard Economic Studies v32; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928), by Harald S. Patton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grain Elevators in Canada (with predecessor publications, in English and French; 1911-1998), by Canadian Grain Commission (partial serial archives)

• Calumet "K", by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster (Gutenberg text)

• Quinoa in the Kitchen (c2013), ed. by Chiara Cauda, Camilla Micheletti, Bianca Minerdo, Cinzia Scaffidi, and Eugenio Signoroni (PDF at fao.org)

• The Diamond Cook Book: Compiled From Tested Recipes (Minneapolis: Cream of Wheat Co., ca. 1900) (PDF at vt.edu)

• Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas: A Study in Adaptation to Subhumid Geographical Environment (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1944), by James C. Malin (HTML at kansashistory.us)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Lost Crops of Africa (3 volumes; 1996-2008), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development
  • Volume 1 (Grains): HTML with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 2 (Vegetables): HTML with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 3 (Fruit): page images with commentary at NAP

• Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Interfaces Between Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Science (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1984), ed. by K. T. Achaya (HTML at UNU)

• Amaranth to Zai Holes: Ideas for Growing Food Under Difficult Conditions, by Laura S. Meitzner and Martin L. Price (HTML at archive.org)

• Haandbog i Dansk Pomologi (3 volumes in 2; in Danish; Odense: Hempelske Bog- og Papirhandel (J.C. Dreyer.), 1890-1896), by Hans Christian Bredsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fruit Manual: A Guide to the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great Britain (fifth edition; London: Journal of Horticulture Office, 1884), by Robert Hogg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fruit Manual: Containing the Descriptions and Synonymes of the Fruits and Fruit Trees Commonly Met With in the Gardens and Orchards of Great Britain (London: Cottage Gardener Office, 1860), by Robert Hogg (multiple formats at Google)
• Fruits of Warm Climates, by Julia F. Morton (illustrated HTML at Purdue)
• Wild Fruits, by Henry David Thoreau, ed. by Bradley P. Dean (HTML at walden.org)

• War Food: Practical and Economical Methods of Keeping Vegetables, Fruits and Meats (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by Amy L. Handy (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Thermal-Death-Point of Micro-Organisms Found in "Spoiled" Canned Fruit (thesis, Michigan Agricultural College, 1901), by Fleta Paddock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Instructive Picture Book: or, Lessons From the Vegetable World (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1858), by Charlotte M. Yonge (page images at Florida; some pages out of order)

• Canned Fruit, Preserves and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation (USDA Farmer's Bulletin #203; Washington: GPO, 1917), by Maria Parloa (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Canned Fruit, Preserves and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation (Chicago et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1917), by Maria Parloa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les Préférables Parmi les Meilleures Poires et Pommes, par Ordre de Maturité Successive pour Toute la Saison: ou, Guide de l'Amateur, Contenant le Nom, l'Origine, la Description, le Mode de Culture, et l'Époque de Maturité, Avec Notices Pomologiques (in French; Gand: E. Vanderhaeghen, 1877), by Victor Hage (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Small Fruit Culturist (New York: O. Judd and Co., 1867), by Andrew S. Fuller (page images at Cornell)
• Success With Small Fruits, by Edward Payson Roe (Gutenberg text)

• Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats (1832), by Eliza Leslie (Gutenberg text)

• The Vegetable Garden: Illustrations, Descriptions and Culture of the Garden Vegetables of Cold and Temperate Climates (English edition; New York: Dutton and Co., 1905), by Vilmorin-Andrieux et cie., ed. by W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Vegetable Garden: Illustrations, Descriptions and Culture of the Garden Vegetables of Cold and Temperate Climates (third English edition; New York: Dutton and Co., 1920), by Vilmorin-Andrieux et cie., ed. by W. Robinson, contrib. by W. P. Thomson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Salads and Vegetable Cookery, by Carson Gulley (page images at Wisconsin)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.