AVAILABLE ONLY FROM BACK 40 BOOKS! Now available as a set which includes the book and the DVD. Author, Randy James offers an engaging view of Amish farm life, society, and values. An agricultural extension agent for twenty years, James works closely with the Amish farmers of Geauga County, Ohio, the fourth largest Amish settlement in the world, and his narrative provides new, accurate information on the Amish and their farming practices. This richly layered book is a collection of gentle, often humorous stories about the art, science, and tradition of farming as well as a probing analysis of the Amish farm business. James includes helpful, empirical descriptions of Amish farming practices and delves into the amazing economic efficiency of a work horse and the streamlined management and marketing of a fifty-chicken flock. Illustrates an alternative business model in which small traditional farms are able to effectively compete in an industry dominated by huge corporate farms. It will appeal to those interested in the Amish lifestyle and farming practices. llustrated with drawings by Amish artist Crist C. Miller. Hard cover, 6" x 9 1/4", 180 pages.Amish Farm Economics DVD. Presentation by Randy James, author of Why Cows Learn Dutch. The DVD was filmed at the American Small Farm Center at the 2005 Farm Science Review, London, Ohio. In this 40 minute DVD James shares his experiences as an Extension agent in Geauga County, Ohio which has an extensive Amish population. He takes us from one of his first challenges as a young agent through the years of working beside many Amish farm families. He covers the resilience of the families to flow with the ever-changing tides of farm economics and demonstrates how they manage to stay involved with agriculture when many conventional farmers are forced to leave behind "the good life." This DVD is produced in NTSC widescreen format. The set is just $42.00. To order by phone call TOLL-FREE: 1-866-596-9982