Reading

Magazines:

Small Farmers Journal

Rural Heritage 

Books:

Farmer Boy
(classic youth book)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Truth About Horses Andrew McLean 

Reaching the Animal Mind
Karen Pryor

Draft Horse Primer
Maurice Telleen

True Horsemanship Through Feel
Bill Dorrance with the help of Leslie Desmond

How to Use Applied Behavior Science to Train Any Type of Animal
Patricia Barlow

Oxen: A Teamsters Guide
Drew Conroy (sadly out of print, but available in e-book format)

Oxen: Their Care Training and Use
Carmen Legge

The Pride and Joy of Working Cattle
Ray Ludwig 

In Praise of Oxen
Frances Anderson and Terry James  (not a ton of text but lovely pictures of working animals mostly in head yokes.)  

On the Shoulders of Giants
Rob Collins (Interviews with ox teamsters.)

Digital:

UNH Working Steer Manual

Tillers International has a number of tech guides on many draft cattle related topics.  They can all be found here:  Resources - Tillers International

Supplies

(do you make or sell draft animal equipment and would like to be on this list?  Please email dapnetinfo@gmail.com and let us know!)

Clark Bending

1895 TR 152 Baltic OH 43804 330-600-8921

Amish shop in NE Ohio that sells ox bows, plough handles, and wagon parts.

Horse Logger Supply

https://horseloggersupply.com/

Log grabs, skip hammers, and other traditional draft logging tools made in the USA.

Useful links

Farming:

National Young Farmers Coalition

a farmer-led, grassroots network shifting power and changing policy to equitably resource the new generation of working farmers

Finding Farmland Calculator

Use this calculator to build scenarios for purchasing farmland. You can compare detailed estimates of total costs, monthly payments and affordability metrics, then download the results to have on hand when meeting with a loan officer.  (From National Young Farmers Coalition)

New England Farmland Finder

Helping to connect farm seekers and landowners across New England, and facilitate farmland transfer.  Other regions of the US have their own organizations.  

Food and Farm Business Law Clinic

The Food and Farm Business Law Clinic at Pace University provides pro bono transactional legal services to small farm businesses, artisan food manufacturers, and related nonprofit organizations. 

Farm Commons

Farm Commons provides legal workshops, timely resources, and a community for farmers, ranchers, and their service providers.

Agrarian Trust

Agrarian Trust catalyzes support for next-gen farmers and regenerative  agriculture by working with communities to acquire and steward land.

Land For Good

Land For Good’s mission is to expand secure farmland access, tenure, and transfer.

Minnow

Minnow secures land tenure for California’s farmers of color and Indigenous communities to support the heritage and foodways of those most affected by state-sponsored dispossession.

In the Midwest:

Land Stewardship Project Farmer Seek program
https://landstewardshipproject.org/.../seekingfarmersseek...

Practical Farmers of Iowa Find a Farmer program:
https://practicalfarmers.org/.../beginning.../find-a-farmer/

Midwest Grazing Exchange program:
https://www.midwestgrazingexchange.com/

Marbleseed organic land connection:
https://marbleseed.org/resou.../land-access/emerging-farmers
https://farmlandaccess.org/
https://www.youngfarmers.org/.../organizations-working.../
https://greenhorns.org/.../Greenhorns_Cooperative_Farming...

This the land for good resource - which includes a list of farms:
https://landforgood.org/accessing-farmland-together/
https://collaborativefarming.libsyn.com/

Powder Valley Community Farms in Colorado:

Partition of Heirs Property Act