Author: James Edward PaynePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Unirrigated Lands of Eastern Colorado
Author: James Edward PaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Unirrigated Lands of Eastern Colorado
Author: Burt C. BuffumPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Adapting to the Land
Author: John F. FreemanPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646422058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Adapting to the Land examines the extent to which Colorado agriculturists adapted to or stretched beyond the limits of land and water. Historian John F. Freeman and horticultural scientist Mark E. Uchanski document the state’s agricultural history and provide context for the shift away from traditional forms of agriculture to the use of synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides—and, most recently, to more values-driven practices to support the burgeoning popularity of natural and organic foods. This shift has resulted in the establishment of the global organic food processing and distribution industry, which has roots in Colorado. Ancestral Puebloans farmed and grazed within the limits of nature. Early settlers adjusted their cultivation methods through trial and error, while later agriculturists relied on research and technical advice from the Colorado Agricultural College. As part of wartime mobilization, the federal government prompted farmers to efficiently increase yields. To meet the demand for food and fiber scientific and technical innovations led to the development of new plant cultivars and livestock breeds, advances in mechanization, and widespread use of synthetic amendments. Increasing concern over soil fertility and the loss of irrigation water to urbanization contributed to more changes. Despite, or perhaps because of, what we see today along the Front Range, Colorado may still have a chance to slow or even reverse its seemingly unrestrained growth, creating a more vibrant, earth-friendly society in which agriculture plays an increasingly significant part. Scientific discoveries and innovations in regenerative cultivation are clearing the path to a more sustainable future. Adapting to the Land adds an ecological and horticultural perspective to historical interpretations of recurring agricultural issues in the state and tracks the concept of stewardship, suggesting that spiritual beliefs continue to contribute to debates over acceptable agricultural practices and the effects of urbanization upon the land. This book will be a key resource for students, scholars, and general readers interested in agricultural and Colorado history, sustainability, and rural sociology.
The Last Days of the Rainbelt
Author: David J. WishartPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496209427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Looking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard to imagine the crowded landscape of the last decades of the nineteenth century. In those days farmers, speculators, and town builders flooded the region, believing that rain would follow the plow and that the "Rainbelt" would become their agricultural Eden. It took a mere decade for drought and economic turmoil to drive these dreaming thousands from the land, turning farmland back to rangeland and reducing settlements to ghost towns. David J. Wishart's The Last Days of the Rainbelt is the sobering tale of the rapid rise and decline of the settlement of the western Great Plains. History finds its voice in interviews with elderly residents of the region by Civil Works Administration employees in 1933 and 1934. Evidence similarly emerges from land records, climate reports, census records, and diaries, as Wishart deftly tracks the expansion of westward settlement across the central plains and into the Rainbelt. Through an examination of migration patterns, land laws, town-building, and agricultural practices, Wishart re-creates the often-difficult life of settlers in a semiarid region who undertook the daunting task of adapting to a new environment. His book brings this era of American settlement and failure on the western Great Plains fully into the scope of historical memory.
Bulletin
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Bulletin - Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station
Author: Colorado Agricultural Experiment StationPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Bulletin
Author: Colorado Agricultural Experiment StationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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The Book of Wheat
Author: Peter Tracy DondlingerPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Report of the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations
Author: United States. Office of Experiment StationsPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations for the Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Office of Experiment StationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description