Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Playing for Keeps—on Peace Team, Address by Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz at Worldwide Agricultural Attache Conference, Washington, D.C., July 24, 1973
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description
Blessed are the Real Peacemakers, Address by Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz at 64th Convention of American Feed Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C., May 17, 1972
Author: The Unsettling of America
Author: Wendell BerryPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417629510
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A critical inquiry into the ways Americans have exploited and continue to exploit the land that sustains them, tracing attitudes toward and methods of farming from the eighteenth century to the present
Concepts and Practices in Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries
Author: Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN: 9291462179
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Report and recommendations on organic farming
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organic farming
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Timeless Heritage
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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.
National Boys and Girls Club News
Author: OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264253238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025 provides an assessment of prospects for the coming decade of the agricultural commodity markets across 41 countries and 12 regions, including OECD countries and key agricultural producers, such as India, China, Brazil, the Russian Federation and Argentina.