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Agriculture In The United States Changes In Farming Continued The Growth Of Commercial Agriculture 1870 1914 Land Policies Education And Experimentation Changes In Farming And Farm Life
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Book Synopsis Agriculture in the United States: Changes in farming (continued) : The growth of commercial agriculture, 1870-1914 ; Land policies ; Education and experimentation ; Changes in farming and farm life by :
Download or read book Agriculture in the United States: Changes in farming (continued) : The growth of commercial agriculture, 1870-1914 ; Land policies ; Education and experimentation ; Changes in farming and farm life written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 3652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the change in farming in the United States by key documents and legislation illustrative of the topic and period.
Book Synopsis Changes in farming (continued) : The growth of commercial agriculture, 1870-1914 ; Land policies ; Education and experimentation ; Changes in farming and farm life by : Wayne David Rasmussen
Download or read book Changes in farming (continued) : The growth of commercial agriculture, 1870-1914 ; Land policies ; Education and experimentation ; Changes in farming and farm life written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 3652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Change in Agriculture by : Clarence H. Danhof
Download or read book Change in Agriculture written by Clarence H. Danhof and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American agriculture changed radically between 1820 and 1870. In turning slowly from subsistence to commercial farming, farmers on the average doubled the portion of their production places on the market, and thereby laid the foundations for today's highly productive agricultural industry. But the modern system was by no means inevitable. It evolved slowly through an intricate process in which innovative and imitative entrepreneurs were the key instruments.
Book Synopsis Agriculture in the United States: War, depression and the new deal, 1914-1940 : Land use and tenure ; Federal farm policies ; Education and experimentation ; World War I ; Changes in farming and farm life by :
Download or read book Agriculture in the United States: War, depression and the new deal, 1914-1940 : Land use and tenure ; Federal farm policies ; Education and experimentation ; World War I ; Changes in farming and farm life written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 3652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the change in farming in the United States by key documents and legislation illustrative of the topic and period.
Book Synopsis A Revolution Down on the Farm by : Paul K. Conkin
Download or read book A Revolution Down on the Farm written by Paul K. Conkin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A History of Agricultural Experimentation and Research in the United States 1607-1925 by : Alfred Charles True
Download or read book A History of Agricultural Experimentation and Research in the United States 1607-1925 written by Alfred Charles True and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final monograph in the series intended to give a comprehensive summary of the history of agricultural education, extension, and research in the United States.
Book Synopsis Americas Transition from Agriculture to Industry by : Greg Roza
Download or read book Americas Transition from Agriculture to Industry written by Greg Roza and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how America changed its agricultural practices as a result of the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution.
Book Synopsis Agriculture in the United States: The second American agricultural revolution, 1941-1973 : Land use and tenure ; Federal farm policies ; World War II ; Education and experimentation ; Changes in farming and farm life ; The future of agriculture by :
Download or read book Agriculture in the United States: The second American agricultural revolution, 1941-1973 : Land use and tenure ; Federal farm policies ; World War II ; Education and experimentation ; Changes in farming and farm life ; The future of agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 3652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the change in farming in the United States by key documents and legislation illustrative of the topic and period.
Book Synopsis War, depression and the new deal, 1914-1940 : Land use and tenure ; Federal farm policies ; Education and experimentation ; World War I ; Changes in farming and farm life by : Wayne David Rasmussen
Download or read book War, depression and the new deal, 1914-1940 : Land use and tenure ; Federal farm policies ; Education and experimentation ; World War I ; Changes in farming and farm life written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 3652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The second American agricultural revolution, 1941-1973 : Land use and tenure ; Federal farm policies ; World War II ; Education and experimentation ; Changes in farming and farm life ; The future of agriculture by : Wayne David Rasmussen
Download or read book The second American agricultural revolution, 1941-1973 : Land use and tenure ; Federal farm policies ; World War II ; Education and experimentation ; Changes in farming and farm life ; The future of agriculture written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 3652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Changes in American Farming by : Sherman Ellsworth Johnson
Download or read book Changes in American Farming written by Sherman Ellsworth Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was undertaken in the belief that a first requisite for intelligent action on our peacetime production problems is an understanding of the nature and strength f the forces that have shaped the course of agricultural production in the years to come.
Book Synopsis American Agriculture by : R. Douglas Hurt
Download or read book American Agriculture written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essential for understanding the complexity of American agricultural history, from the transition to commercial agriculture during the colonial period to the failure of government policy following World War II. Complete with maps, drawings, and over seventy splendid photographs, this revised edition closes with an examination of the troubled landscape at the turn of the twenty-first century. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America and the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and women. This survey will serve as a text for courses in the history of American agriculture and rural studies as well as a supplementary text for economic history and rural sociology courses.
Book Synopsis Agriculture in the United States by : Wayne David Rasmussen
Download or read book Agriculture in the United States written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the change in farming in the United States by key documents and legislation illustrative of the topic and period.
Book Synopsis History and Evolution of American Agriculture by : History and Civilization Collection
Download or read book History and Evolution of American Agriculture written by History and Civilization Collection and published by LM Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-05 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the evolution of American agriculture, the effect of machinery both upon production and rural population; and the last chapter attempt to show the development of a distinctly proletarian class upon the farms. "Five periods mark the agricultural history of the United States since the advent of the white man. The first or Colonial period extends to the end of the Revolutionary War and records but slight technical advances in the art of agriculture... The second period, from 1783 to 1830, saw a rapid spread of the agricultural population across the mountains into the Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee Valleys and even beyond the Mississippi to the edge of the great plains. A public land policy was adopted by the Federal Government, cotton became the dominant agricultural product of the South and made slavery a paying and therefore a characteristically Southern institution, and the first efforts to apply science to agriculture were made. During this period, as in the first one, agriculture was practically self-sufficing, though in the South the specialization on cotton caused a considerable dependence on other regions for supplies that otherwise would have been produced at home. In the third period, from 1830 to 1865, occurred an almost complete transformation of agriculture. The rapid rise of the factory system in the North, due to the use of steam and a flood of labor saving inventions with a consequent transfer of home industries into the shops, the invention of agricultural machinery such as the reaper, mower, thresher, etc., the extension of the railway system and the development of the prairie states caused an era of specialization which transferred agriculture into the commercial stage. Crops were now grown primarily for the market and incidentally for the use of the farmer and his family, a reversal of the former process... The fourth period was the era of expansion into the Far West (1865–1887), and was remarkably stimulated by the Homestead Acts of 1862 and 1864, the disbanding of the Armies of the Civil War, the transformation of Southern farming due to the abolition of slavery, the invention of the twine binder and the roller process of milling flour, the extension of the railroads to the Pacific Coast, the greater extention of the interior railway systems, the development of the cattle ranches of the West after the extinction of the buffalo and the cooping up of the Indians on the reservations, and a new flood of immigration from European ports. Manufacture experienced an equal expansion at this time and more of the home industries were transferred from the farm to the factory and the shop. The fifth period, which began in 1887, is now practically completed by the establishment of the Rural Credit or Land Bank system throughout the country. This period has been an era of agricultural reorganization..."
Book Synopsis Agriculture in the United States: Changes in farming (continued) by : Wayne David Rasmussen
Download or read book Agriculture in the United States: Changes in farming (continued) written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 3652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History and Evolution of American Agriculture by : Abner E. Woodruff
Download or read book History and Evolution of American Agriculture written by Abner E. Woodruff and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the evolution of American agriculture, the effect of machinery both upon production and rural population; and the last chapter attempt to show the development of a distinctly proletarian class upon the farms. "Five periods mark the agricultural history of the United States since the advent of the white man. The first or Colonial period extends to the end of the Revolutionary War and records but slight technical advances in the art of agriculture... The second period, from 1783 to 1830, saw a rapid spread of the agricultural population across the mountains into the Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee Valleys and even beyond the Mississippi to the edge of the great plains. A public land policy was adopted by the Federal Government, cotton became the dominant agricultural product of the South and made slavery a paying and therefore a characteristically Southern institution, and the first efforts to apply science to agriculture were made. During this period, as in the first one, agriculture was practically self-sufficing, though in the South the specialization on cotton caused a considerable dependence on other regions for supplies that otherwise would have been produced at home. In the third period, from 1830 to 1865, occurred an almost complete transformation of agriculture. The rapid rise of the factory system in the North, due to the use of steam and a flood of labor saving inventions with a consequent transfer of home industries into the shops, the invention of agricultural machinery such as the reaper, mower, thresher, etc., the extension of the railway system and the development of the prairie states caused an era of specialization which transferred agriculture into the commercial stage. Crops were now grown primarily for the market and incidentally for the use of the farmer and his family, a reversal of the former process... The fourth period was the era of expansion into the Far West (1865-1887), and was remarkably stimulated by the Homestead Acts of 1862 and 1864, the disbanding of the Armies of the Civil War, the transformation of Southern farming due to the abolition of slavery, the invention of the twine binder and the roller process of milling flour, the extension of the railroads to the Pacific Coast, the greater extention of the interior railway systems, the development of the cattle ranches of the West after the extinction of the buffalo and the cooping up of the Indians on the reservations, and a new flood of immigration from European ports. Manufacture experienced an equal expansion at this time and more of the home industries were transferred from the farm to the factory and the shop. The fifth period, which began in 1887, is now practically completed by the establishment of the Rural Credit or Land Bank system throughout the country. This period has been an era of agricultural reorganization..."
Book Synopsis Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities by : National Research Council
Download or read book Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-10-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although few Americans work as farmers these days, agriculture on the whole remains economically importantâ€"playing a key role in such contemporary issues as consumer health and nutrition, worker safety and animal welfare, and environmental protection. This publication provides a comprehensive picture of the primary education system for the nation's agriculture industry: the land grant colleges of agriculture. Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities informs the public debate about the challenges that will shape the future of these colleges and serves as a foundation for a second volume, which will present recommendations for policy and institutional changes in the land grant system. This book reviews the legislative history of the land grant system from its establishment in 1862 to the 1994 act conferring land grant status on Native American colleges. It describes trends that have shaped agriculture and agricultural education over the decadesâ€"the shift of labor from farm to factory, reasons for and effects of increased productivity and specialization, the rise of the corporate farm, and more. The committee reviews the system's three-part missionâ€"education, research, and extension serviceâ€"and through this perspective documents the changing nature of funding and examines the unique structure of the U.S. agricultural research and education system. Demographic data on faculties, students, extension staff, commodity and funding clusters, and geographic specializations profile the system and identify similarities and differences among the colleges of agriculture, trends in funding, and a host of other issues. The tables in the appendix provide further itemization about general population distribution, student and educator demographics, types of degree programs, and funding allocations. Concise commentary and informative graphics augment the detailed statistical presentations. This book will be important to policymakers, administrators, educators, researchers, and students of agriculture.
