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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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The Midwest Sweet Corn Industry
Author: A Study of the Sweet Corn Industry in the Midwest Farm Economy
Author: Richard A. AndrewsPublisher:
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Category : Corn industry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Midwest Sweet Corn Industry
Author: Richard A. AndrewsPublisher:
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Category : Corn industry
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Overall developments; Production; Acreage; Yield per Acre; Per capita consumption; Shifts in sweet corn marketed; Place in the midwest farm economy; Developments; The industry in the decade ahead; Sweet corn for processing; Sweet corn for fresh marked; Future place in the midwest farm economy.
A Study of the Sweet Corn Industry in the Midwest Farm Economy
Author: Station Bulletin
Author: Richard A. AndrewsPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Marketing Midwest Sweet Corn
Author: Turn Here Sweet Corn
Author: Atina DiffleyPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452939179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. She’s a farmer. It’s “as big as a B-size potato.” As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall (“that broccoli turned out gorgeous”); the hail disaster of 1977. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. In telling her story of working the land, coaxing good food from the fertile soil, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships—with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the “ground level” of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys’ Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America’s farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing number of local food co-ops. This is a story of a world transformed—and reclaimed—one square acre at a time. And yet, after surviving punishing storms and the devastating loss of fifth-generation Diffley family land to suburban development, the Diffleys faced the ultimate challenge: the threat of eminent domain for a crude oil pipeline proposed by one of the largest privately owned companies in the world, notorious polluters Koch Industries. As Atina Diffley tells her David-versus-Goliath tale, she gives readers everything from expert instruction in organic farming to an entrepreneur’s manual on how to grow a business to a legal thriller about battling corporate arrogance to a love story about a single mother falling for a good, big-hearted man.
Midwest Maize
Author: Cynthia ClampittPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252096878
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.
Canning Gold
Author: Paul B. FredericPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761821991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Canning Gold is a meticulously researched examination of how sweet corn canning helped shape the economy, landscape and people of rural Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont during the "corn shop century," 1860-1960's. Paul Frederic powerfully demonstrates the strong community bond essential for the industry's initial success. Interviews with farmers, factory owners and cannery workers who raised and packed the corn, combined with the written record, and Frederic's insight derived from growing up in the shadow of a corn shop, enrich the work and trace various threads linking local patterns to regional, national and global forces.
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