Author: John Harold ListerPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Purchasing Farm Supplies Through Southern States Cooperative, Inc
Author: John Harold ListerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Remaking the Rural South
Author: Robert Hunt FergusonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351784
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936–42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938–56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the winter of 1936, two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two thousand acres in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the most insular and oppressive regions in the nation. Thus began a twenty-year experiment—across two communities—in interracialism, Christian socialism, cooperative farming, and civil and economic activism. Robert Hunt Ferguson recalls the genesis of Delta and Providence: how they were modeled after cooperative farms in Japan and Soviet Russia and how they rose in reaction to the exploitation of small- scale, dispossessed farmers. Although the staff, volunteers, and residents were very much everyday people—a mix of Christian socialists, political leftists, union organizers, and sharecroppers—the farms had the backing of such leading figures as philanthropist Sherwood Eddy, who purchased the land, and educator Charles Spurgeon Johnson and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who served as trustees. On these farms, residents developed a cooperative economy, operated a desegregated health clinic, held interracial church services and labor union meetings, and managed a credit union. Ferguson tells how a variety of factors related to World War II forced the closing of Delta, while Providence finally succumbed to economic boycotts and outside threats from white racists. Remaking the Rural South shows how a small group of committed people challenged hegemonic social and economic structures by going about their daily routines. Far from living in a closed society, activists at Delta and Providence engaged in a local movement with national and international roots and consequences.
Southern States Cooperative Farmer
Author: Freedom Farmers
Author: Monica M. WhitePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643707
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an alternative to the second wave of northern migration by African Americans--an opportunity to stay in the South, live off the land, and create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative and collective effort. Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans.
News for Farmer Cooperatives
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Directory of Fertilizer Plants in the United States
Author: Examine new generation cooperatives and strategies to maximize farm and ranch income
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Farmer Cooperatives
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Directory, Fertilizer Plants in the United States
Author: Association of American Plant Food Control OfficialsPublisher:
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Category : Fertilizer industry
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This second edition was compiled from questionnaires distributed by regulatory officials to registered manufacturers in later 1976 and early 1977. It includes dry and fluid blenders, granulators, and some retail outlets. A total of 7,150 listings is shown - an increase of 9% over the 1974 survey.
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