/lit/ - Literature

>>15962534
Masanobu Fukuoka - One Straw Revolution, this got me into farming when I was 15, easy reading.
Gabe Brown - Dirt to Soil, this book will convert you to a believer in pasture cropping and rotational planned grazing instantly.
Temple Grandin - Animals in Translation, good for understanding basic animal psychology, her books specifically about handling livestock go into more detail and give practical examples.
Joel Salatin's Pastured Poultry Profits and Salad Bar Beef are good basic introductions to raising poultry and beef cattle respectively.
Greg Judy - No Risk Ranching, good if you want to know how to build a profitable grass fed beef and lamb business. The main thing I got from this book is that buying land when first starting out is financial suicide. Multi-year lease is the only way to start grazing animals without a quarter million dollars to buy the farm. I'm planning on interning with him in 2021.
Allan Savory - Holistic Management, very dense textbook that is about not only managing livestock but the rest of your life and business.
William Albrecht's collected essays series, specifically vol 2 Soil Fertility and Animal Health, goes into detail about soil structure and mineral composition so I'd only read this after having a strong knowledge of the other basics I mentioned above.
Weston A. Price - Nutrition and Physical Degeneration along with Pottenger's cat study both provide a strong basic knowledge of animal nutrition and I think all farmers should read them both.
Anything by Eliot Coleman or Richard Perkins if you want to know how to grow vegetables.
You can find almost all of these authors on YouTube doing live talks that are just as informative as their books. Stockman Grass Farmer is a good magazine about beef cattle as well.
If you actually want to take real life steps toward becoming a farmer, read Joel Salatin - Fields of Farmers and apply for internships afterwards.

>>15962554
That can be easily fixed. The single most important factor in the real world is the monthly payment. It's also not as hard as it's made out to be by people who try to farm unnaturally with chemicals, tillage and so on
>>15963524
Regulation does make it annoying, especially in the UK, but if you farm naturally you make a much higher profit margin with less labor so the statistics only matter when talking about conventional farming. Now that I think about it I'd probably commit suicide if I had to farm like that lol