Author: Ross Andrew OlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A Study of Structural Changes in the Livestock Economy of Kansas
Author: Ross Andrew OlsonChanges in the Livestock Economy of Kansas
Author: John Henry McCoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Econometric Analysis of the Structural Change of an Agricultural Region
Author: John G. RuffThe Kansas Beef Industry
Author: Charles L. WoodPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700631798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production—including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding—and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century. Sharpest focus is on the period 1890 to 1940, after the Western beef industry had passed through the transition from using the expansive, open-range method of beef production to the more rational and organized methods of today. Wood presents a detailed discussion of the history of upbreeding. He points out the little-known fact that the fine-blooded animals—especially Herefords—that moved out from the Midwest were probably more important in stocking the ranges of the Plains and the Southwest than the many thousands of Longhorns driven from Texas. He emphasizes the interregional aspect of beef production and the unique role played by Kansas. On the threshold of the Great Plains, Kansas received cattle from both the Midwest and the Southwest for many years—upbred cattle moving South, and stocker cattle moving from the South or Southwest into Kansas for additional maturing before being shipped to the Midwest for fattening or for slaughter. Wood also looks closely at the relationship of cattlemen to government and to big business—railroads, stockyards, and packers. He sees the cattlemen as agricultural producers and business managers, rather than as romantic, self-reliant giants of the earth. Taking issue with the popular myth that cattlemen were and are ruggedly individualistic and disdainful of outside help, Wood discusses the cattlemen’s repeated demands for aid, especially during the 1930s. Included in the book is the history of the Kansas Livestock Association, which the author credits as being one of the most significant stock associations in the West during this century. Wood sets the KLA’s growth within the context of the larger organizational revolution in the nation’s business world. A concluding chapter surveys major developments after World War II, including the development of feedlots and irrigation, the new cross-breeding, decentralization of packers, and the advent of trucking to replace railroads. There has been scant information on these topics in the general literature of the Great Plains.
Kansas History in Graduate Study
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309168643
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs discusses the need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement a new method for estimating the amount of ammonia, nitrous oxide, methane, and other pollutants emitted from livestock and poultry farms, and for determining how these emissions are dispersed in the atmosphere. The committee calls for the EPA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish a joint council to coordinate and oversee short - and long-term research to estimate emissions from animal feeding operations accurately and to develop mitigation strategies. Their recommendation was for the joint council to focus its efforts first on those pollutants that pose the greatest risk to the environment and public health.
Mergers and Concentration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Change in U.S. Livestock Production, 1969-92
Author: William D. McBridePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Author: