Author: Barry C. FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Impact of Changing Economic Structure on the Strategy of Agricultural Policy: the Case of Cotton
Author: Barry C. FieldTexas Airport System Plan
Author: Texas Transportation InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: The Changing Scale of American Agriculture
Author: John Fraser HartPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922294
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Few Americans know much about contemporary farming, which has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. In The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, the award-winning geographer and landscape historian John Fraser Hart describes the transformation of farming from the mid-twentieth century, when small family farms were still viable, to the present, when a farm must sell at least $250,000 of farm products each year to provide an acceptable level of living for a family. The increased scale of agriculture has outmoded the Jeffersonian ideal of small, self-sufficient farms. In the past farmers kept a variety of livestock and grew several crops, but modern family farms have become highly specialized in producing a single type of livestock or one or two crops. As farms have become larger and more specialized, their number has declined. Hart contends that modern family farms need to become integrated into tightly orchestrated food-supply chains in order to thrive, and these complex new organizations of large-scale production require managerial skills of the highest order. According to Hart, this trend is not only inevitable, but it is beneficial, because it produces the food American consumers want to buy at prices they can afford. Although Hart provides the statistics and clear analysis such a study requires, his book focuses on interviews with farmers: those who have shifted from mixed crop-and-livestock farming to cash-grain farming in the Midwest agricultural heartland; beef, dairy, chicken, egg, turkey, and hog producers around the periphery of the heartland; and specialty crop producers on the East and West Coasts. These invaluable case studies bring the reader into direct personal contact with the entrepreneurs who are changing American agriculture. Hart believes that modern large-scale farmers have been criticized unfairly, and The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, the result of decades of research, is his attempt to tell their side of the story.
Financial Management Research in Farming in the United States
Author: Virden L. HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
This annotated bibliography describes the contents of 300 recent publications and 50 current research projects relating to financial management of agricultural firms. A topic index groups the publications and current projects into subject matter areas within financial management. Also included are lists of teachers of graduate level courses in farm management and agricultural finance in State universities.
Agriculture's Futures
Author: L.Tim WallacePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461247306
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Fossil Energy Update
Author: Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309170346
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested that the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council (NRC) convene a panel of experts to examine whether publicly funded agricultural research has influenced the structure of U.S. agriculture and, if so, how. The Committee to Review the Role of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on the Structure of U.S. Agriculture was asked to assess the role of public-sector agricultural research on changes in the size and numbers of farms, with particular emphasis on the evolution of very-large-scale operations.
Strategies and Structures in the Agro-food Industries
Author: Jerker NilssonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Coastal Evolution
Author: R. W. G. CarterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521598903
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A 1995 review of how shorelines have changed since the last Ice Age, and what this implies for future environmental management.