Author: Peter DornerPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Economic and Social Changes on Wisconsin Family Farms
Author: Peter DornerPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Wisconsin Agriculture in Historical Perspective
Author: Douglas B. Jackson-SmithPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The Rise and Decline of the Family Farm in Central Southern Wisconsin, 1890-1990
Author: Bill GillPublisher:
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Category : Columbia County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The family farm in America is often referred to as the backbone of the nation's identity. The number of active farms in Wisconsin has shrunk from a high in 1934 of 200,000 to the current number of less than 68,000. With the loss of these farms, Wisconsin's rural society loses jobs on the farm and throughout the community. This research focuses on the negative social, economic and political impact on rural communities resulting from farm loss.
The Changing Role of Rural Life in Wisconsin
Author: Families on Farms
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Families on Farms: Migrants, Farmers, and the Transformation of Wisconsin's Countryside, 1920s-60s" is a social and cultural history of industrial agriculture in the rural Midwest. It foregrounds the experiences of ethnic Mexican farmworkers who migrated to Wisconsin's fruit and vegetable farms throughout the twentieth century, and examines their relationships with white family farmers, year-round residents, state reformers and other citizens who became embroiled in the changes that occurred as commercial farming transformed the countryside. Ethnic Mexicans who immigrated from Mexico into the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas in the early twentieth century became vital to the development of large-scale, industrial farming in Texas and the Midwest. They harvested a variety of crops in both regions and usually worked as family units in order to supplement the low wages paid to them by growers and agricultural corporations. In Wisconsin, ethnic Mexican farmworkers became viewed and treated as racial outsiders by the year-round community, their status determined and reinforced through the labor they performed, the spaces they inhabited, and the unequal social treatment they endured. By analyzing farmworkers' familial strategies, working conditions, and living spaces in relation to those of white, year-round farming families, we can trace how ideas about race, gender, and citizenship became constituted through the material world of the countryside. Debates unfolded about the place that migrant farmworkers would occupy within farming communities. State and religious reformers, along with some ordinary residents, organized programs to improve farmworkers' living conditions while they toiled in Wisconsin's agricultural fields. Such programs often reinforced ethnic Mexicans' status as outsiders even though they sought to bridge the social divisions that existed between seasonal and year-round residents. As farmworkers continued to migrate after World War II, they forged their own meaningful connections to Wisconsin people and places, challenging the notion that they did not belong there. "Families on Farms" recasts the story of twentieth-century midwestern agriculture by showing how ethnic Mexican farmworkers figured prominently in the material, economic, and social developments that transformed the rural Midwest.
Farming the Cutover
Author: Robert J. GoughPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Farming the Cutover describes the visions and accomplishments of these settlers from their perspective. People of the cutover managed to forge lives relatively independent of market pressures, and for this they were characterized as backward by outsiders and their part of the state was seen as a hideout for organized crime figures. State and federal planners, county agents, and agriculture professors eventually determined that the cutover could be engineered by professional and academic expertise into a Progressive social model and the lives of its inhabitants improved. By 1940, they had begun to implement public policies that discouraged farming, and they eventually decided that the region should be depopulated and the forests replanted. By exploring the history of an eighteen-county region, Robert Gough illustrates the travails of farming in marginal areas. He juxtaposes the social history of the farmers with the opinions and programs of the experts who sought to improve the region. Significantly, what occurred in the Wisconsin cutover anticipated the sweeping changes that transformed American agriculture after World War II.
Rural Wisconsin's Economy and Society
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Farm Size, Farm Enlargement and Related Socio-economic Factors on Wisconsin Dairy Farms, 1950-1960
Author: Myo NyuntPublisher:
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Category : Dairy farming
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Social, Structural and Technological Changes in Agriculture, 1977-85
Author: Mary E. LassanyiPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Wisconsin Agriculture
Author: Jerry AppsPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870207253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
"I'm embarrassed to say I thought I knew anything substantial about Wisconsin agriculture or its history before I read this book. 'Wisconsin Agriculture' should be required reading in history classes from high school to the collegiate level. It makes me thankful that Jerry Apps has such a sense of commitment to Wisconsin's agricultural heritage--and to getting the story right." --Pam Jahnke, Farm Director, Wisconsin Farm Report Radio Wisconsin has been a farming state from its very beginnings. And though it's long been known as "the Dairy State," it produces much more than cows, milk, and cheese. In fact, Wisconsin is one of the most diverse agricultural states in the nation. The story of farming in Wisconsin is rich and diverse as well, and the threads of that story are related and intertwined. In this long-awaited volume, celebrated rural historian Jerry Apps examines everything from the fundamental influences of landscape and weather to complex matters of ethnic and pioneer settlement patterns, changing technology, agricultural research and education, and government regulations and policies. Along with expected topics, such as the cranberry industry and artisan cheesemaking, "Wisconsin Agriculture" delves into beef cattle and dairy goats, fur farming and Christmas trees, maple syrup and honey, and other specialty crops, including ginseng, hemp, cherries, sugar beets, mint, sphagnum moss, flax, and hops. Apps also explores new and rediscovered farming endeavors, from aquaculture to urban farming to beekeeping, and discusses recent political developments, such as the 2014 Farm Bill and its ramifications. And he looks to the future of farming, contemplating questions of ethical growing practices, food safety, sustainability, and the potential effects of climate change. Featuring first-person accounts from the settlement era to today, along with more than 200 captivating photographs, "Wisconsin Agriculture" breathes life into the facts and figures of 150 years of farming history and provides compelling insights into the state's agricultural past, present, and future.