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Farmstead Planning Handbook: Guidelines for Planning and Expanding Agricultural Facilities and Operations

by Carol Elder — last modified June 30, 2006 03:37 PM

The Farmstead Planning Handbook CD-ROM explains and shows how to locate, plan, and build or expand an agricultural site, from a small acreage to a large operation. It also considers relevant related issues such as odor and dust control. The handbook contains more than 100 drawings, photographs, and diagrams plus tables, bulleted lists, and an expansion plan example clarify and enhance description.

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Building on a country acreage or expanding a farm? The Farmstead Planning Handbook, provides a step-by-step full-color guide through the entire process, from concept to construction. The CD runs on both PC and Macintosh® computers.

The handbook's chapters cover:

Planning principles
Site selection
Family living area
Drives and service yard
Farm buildings and areas (office; shop; areas for mixing and storing pesticides or fertilizers, for processing grain, and for livestock)
Planning for utilities, general safety, accident prevention, emergencies, and biosecurity

Farmstead Planning Handbook CD-ROM is written by professors Don D. Jones of Purdue University, Brian Holmes of the University of Wisconsin, and Ted L. Funk of the University of Illinois. The publisher is MidWest Plan Service. The Farmstead Planning Handbook CD-ROM is available from MWPS for $20.00 plus shipping and handling. Volume discounts are available.

Farmstead Planning Handbook CD-ROM as well as the free MWPS catalog and other low-cost and free MWPS materials may be ordered: On-line at www.mwpshq.org, by e-mail, by phone at 800-562-3618 or 515-294-4337, by fax at 515-294-9589, or by writing MidWest Plan Service, 122 Davidson Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3080.

Headquartered at Iowa State University, MWPS is an educational publishing consortium of 12 U.S. universities and the USDA. MWPS provides science-based, peer-reviewed, low-cost and free information and building plans to agricultural professionals, agribusiness persons, and homeowners. Since 1932, 3.3 million MWPS publications have been used worldwide.

Farmstead Planning Handbook CD-ROM. 2005, full-color text and illustrations, MWPS-2, ISBN 0-89373-102-1 Book number: FPLAN $20.00 plus shipping/handling.