Author: Donald J. JonovicPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Passing Down the Farm
Author: Donald J. JonovicPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Getting Organized
Author: Christy Anderson BrekkenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781955101301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Revolution Down on the Farm
Author: Paul K. ConkinPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081313868X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century. Fifty years ago, the planet could not have sustained a population of 6.5 billion; now, commercial and industrial agriculture ensure that millions will not die from starvation. Farmers are able to feed an exponentially growing planet because the greatest industrial revolution in history has occurred in agriculture since 1929, with U.S. farmers leading the way. Productivity on American farms has increased tenfold, even as most small farmers and tenants have been forced to find other work. Today, only 300,000 farms produce approximately ninety percent of the total output, and overproduction, largely subsidized by government programs and policies, has become the hallmark of modern agriculture. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 charts the profound changes in farming that have occurred during author Paul K. Conkin's lifetime. His personal experiences growing up on a small Tennessee farm complement compelling statistical data as he explores America's vast agricultural transformation and considers its social, political, and economic consequences. He examines the history of American agriculture, showing how New Deal innovations evolved into convoluted commodity programs following World War II. Conkin assesses the skills, new technologies, and government policies that helped transform farming in America and suggests how new legislation might affect farming in decades to come. Although the increased production and mechanization of farming has been an economic success story for Americans, the costs are becoming increasingly apparent. Small farmers are put out of business when they cannot compete with giant, non-diversified corporate farms. Caged chickens and hogs in factory-like facilities or confined dairy cattle require massive amounts of chemicals and hormones ultimately ingested by consumers. Fertilizers, new organic chemicals, manure disposal, and genetically modified seeds have introduced environmental problems that are still being discovered. A Revolution Down on the Farm concludes with an evaluation of farming in the twenty-first century and a distinctive meditation on alternatives to our present large scale, mechanized, subsidized, and fossil fuel and chemically dependent system.
Passing on the Farm
Author: Rita A. PoppPublisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 150924896X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Rachel Kilkenny comes from Denver for a short stay at the Iowa farm she’s inherited with her brother, Davie. She assumes they’ll manage the homeplace together, and he and his family will move in. But nothing goes according to this simple plan. Her feisty sister-in-law delivers a shocking demand, and Davie avoids helping pack up the parents’ possessions. Then, in the midst of a troubling week, Rachel meets a handsome bicycle shop owner who sets her thoughts spinning in a new direction. Will the future be completely different than anybody expected?
System on the Farm
Author: Passing Down the Family Farm
Author: A. R. ThornhillPublisher:
ISBN: 9780851207360
Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
General Farm Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and ForestryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Farm Knowledge
Author: Edward Loomis Davenport SeymourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Down on the Farm
Author: Stewart H. HolbrookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Nothing in the American scene has changed so much in the last half-century as country life. The old-time farm as most of us knew it is fast becoming a matter of the past. This book is a portrait of those times, of that vanishing way of life.
The Aging of Agriculture
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on EmpowermentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description