Author: Allan G. BoguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
From Prairie to Corn Belt
Author: Allan G. BoguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
From Prairie to Corn Belt Farming
Author: BoguePublisher: Times Books
ISBN: 9780812960556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Making the Corn Belt
Author: John C. HudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Civil War demonstrated that, even though its agriculture was distinctive, the larger region was divided in social and political terms.
From Prairie to Corn Belt
Author: Allan G. BoguePublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780813822181
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This is a study of the development of farming in the prairie states. The book emphasises the individual farmer (the man with dirt on his hands and dung on his boots), and the problems and developments that have forced him to make decisions about his farm business.
From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur
Author: Dennis NordinPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345714
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Their account will inform readers with a detailed account of one of the great transformations in American life."--BOOK JACKET.
Prairie Farmer
Author: The Corn Belt Route
Author: H. Roger GrantPublisher: Railroads in America
ISBN: 9780875800950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The Chicago Great Western Railroad was a spunky midwestern carrier that contributed mightily to the transportation industry. The 1,500-mile CGW, built by the iconoclastic and ambitious A. B. Stickney, proved to be exceptionally innovative as it developed new ways to compete with larger railroads. Pitted against tough, determined competitors, the CGW during its eighty-five years made innovations that changed the history of American transportation. Among the pioneering activities for which the Great Western is remembered are the early use of internal combustion equipment, the hauling of truck trailers atop flatcars ("piggy-backs"), and the use of extremely long freight trains. Indeed, much of the railroad's past supports the notion that smaller, less-established carriers like the CGW frequently stimulated changes in industry thinking and practices. In spite of its innovations, the path of the Great Western, sometimes called the "Great Weedy," did not always run smoothly. In the 1930s, John W. Barriger III quipped, "The Chicago Great Western is a mountain railroad in a prairie country serving a traffic vacuum." Such a negative assessment was not uncommon for this Granger pike, which in fact climbed some steep grades and owned a long tunnel. And while the road did not operate in a "traffic vacuum," its competitors were well entrenched and robust. By 1903, the CGW served the strategic gateways of Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Joseph, and Omaha. Between Chicago and the Twin Cities alone, the company competed with six other roads. When the Chicago & North Western acquired the Great Western in 1968, one of America's most imaginative railroads disappeared. The Corn Belt Route is the first scholarly treatment of the Chicago Great Western Railroad, a company that has long intrigued the railfan, whether collector, modeler, photographer, or historian. Richly illustrated, this book tells the lively story of one of the great small railroads that once served the Midwest.
From the Corn Belt to the Gulf
Author: Joan Iverson NassauerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113652536X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Nutrients from farms in the Mississippi River Basin are the leading cause of the Gulf of Mexico‘s 'Dead Zone,' a 5,000 to 7,000 square mile region where declining oxygen levels are threatening the survival of marine life. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf explores how new agricultural policy can help alleviate this problem, and at the same time improve water quality overall, enhance biodiversity, improve the quality of life for the people who live and work in Corn Belt communities, and relieve downstream flooding. The themes of the book are the far-reaching environmental impacts of Corn Belt agriculture, including associated economic and social effects at multiple spatial scales - and the potential for future agricultural policy to address those impacts through changes in agricultural landscapes and practices. We know that the environmental 'footprint' of Corn Belt agriculture extends beyond farmland and adjacent lakes and streams to groundwater, rivers, cities downstream, into the Gulf of Mexico, and, ultimately, to global oceanic and atmospheric systems. And we acknowledge that agricultural policies, including commodity support payments, have economic impacts at the national and international levels. Pressing negotiations with America‘s trade partners, along with increasing societal attention to both the costs and environmental effects of current agricultural policy, are creating momentum for policy change. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf presents innovative, integrated assessments of the agriculture and ecological systems in the Mississippi River Basin along with studies of local Iowa agricultural watersheds. Contributors from multiple academic and professional disciplines discuss how agricultural policies have contributed to current environmental conditions, and, in what the authors term 'alternative futures' for agricultural landscapes, envision how new policy can help achieve more beneficial patterns.
Ultimate John Deere
Author: Prairie County in the Pacfic Northwest, Southeastern Montana in the New Corn Belt
Author: Grover E. LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description