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  1. Potatoes (1994 Video)

    Director
    Suzanne Campbell-Jones
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Notes the importance of potatoes in the human diet and the world economy, and looks at how scientists are using genetically engineering better, sweeter, and disease-resistant crops.

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  2. Year on an Arable Farm, A (2007)

    Director
    Andrew Lyle (2)
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 70 minutes), £15.95

    Seen through the eyes of farmer Andrew Lyle, this DVD charts a year’s progress on a 500-acre arable farm in Lincolnshire. The farm grows wheat, oilseed rape, oats, potatoes, sugar beet and borage. Scenes...

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  3. Potato Planters (1974 Film)

    Director
    Hubert Smith
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An Aymará family in the Bolivian highlands plants potatoes, prepares and eats a meal, and discusses the religious and astronomical forces that control their destiny.

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  4. Alerte Aux Champs (1939 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Origin and spread of the Colorado beetle. Life cycle of the pest in France; its control by chemicals, by introducing parasites and by breeding varieties of potatoes resistant to the beetle.

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  5. Agribusiness (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at a applications of genetic science in cereal, vegetable and pig farming. Explains the process of breeding improved disease-resistant wheat for bread-making, and shows the growth and storage of...

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  6. When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine (1992)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 98 minutes), 14.99 Euros

    This four part series examines the causes and effects of poverty in Ireland, which led to the Great Famine of the 1840s, during which around a million people died. The episodes are as follows: 1. Causes of...

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  7. Gene Technology in Agriculture (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 22 min., 2000 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Part 2 in the Hene Technology series explores technologies designed to improve tomatoes and potatoes and debates the issues of genetically modified food safety, environmental risk and labelling. Looks at how...

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  8. Harvests of the Soil

    Director
    John C. Elder; Alan Harper; Adam H. Malcolm; Ken Neil
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £16.33

    A collection of agricultural films from Scotland, covering different aspects of farming with classic films and farmers’ commentaries. The films are as follows: AYRSHIRE DAIRY FARMER (1967, colour), the...

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  9. Phytophthora Infestans: The Pathogen of Late Blight of Potato (1979 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 16 min., 1996 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Late blight fungus ('Peronosporaceae’). Pathogenesis and vegetative development of the facultative parasite on and in the potato leaf of the susceptible First Early Dutch variety. On the leaf ribs the...

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  10. Crown of the Year, The (2003)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £15.99

    Four wartime farming films showing the four seasons in 1941 and 1942. The first part shows winter on Upton Manor Farm, Uploders, Dorset. The second part shows spring sowing and rolling on a farm at...

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