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Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :12 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis National Agriculture Day by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
Download or read book National Agriculture Day written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ag in the Classroom Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Crisis and Opportunity by : John E. Ikerd
Download or read book Crisis and Opportunity written by John E. Ikerd and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. But this crisis offers the opportunity to rethink agriculture in sustainable terms. Here one of the most eloquent and influential proponents of sustainable agriculture explains what this means. These engaging essays describe what sustainable agriculture is, why it began, and how it can succeed. Together they constitute a clear and compelling vision for rebalancing the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of agriculture to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future. In Crisis and Opportunity, John E. Ikerd outlines the consequences of agricultural industrialization, then details the methods that can restore economic viability, ecological soundness, and social responsibility to our agricultural system and thus ensure sustainable agriculture as the foundation of a sustainable food system and a sustainable society.
Book Synopsis Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: Farm and community by : Liberty Hyde Bailey
Download or read book Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: Farm and community written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Agricultural Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legacy for the Future by : United States. Department of Agriculture
Download or read book Legacy for the Future written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agriculture in the Americas; Fact Sheet on Pan-American Day by : United States Foreign Agricultural Relations Office
Download or read book Agriculture in the Americas; Fact Sheet on Pan-American Day written by United States Foreign Agricultural Relations Office and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Farmer, and Spirit of the Agricultural Journals of the Day by : Samuel Sands
Download or read book The American Farmer, and Spirit of the Agricultural Journals of the Day written by Samuel Sands and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance by : Willard Wesley Cochrane
Download or read book The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance written by Willard Wesley Cochrane and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advisor to President Kennedy, consultant for foreign governments, and spokesman for family farmers everywhere, Willard W. Cochrane has been a leading expert on agriculture and its problems in the United States since the 1940s. In his straightforward style Cochrane analyzes the propensity for American agriculture to produce too much and the inability of our social and economic system to make effective use of that unending abundance. He then offers his vision for American agriculture in the twenty-first century. Cochrane looks at two periods in agricultural history: 195366 and 19972002. Structurally, technologically, and organizationally the two periods are as different as night and day, but in terms of the big economic picture--too much production pressing on a limited commercial demand with resulting low farm prices and incomes--they are mirror images of each other. With this understanding, Cochrane argues that Americans no longer need to farm fragile ecosystems with intensive chemical methods, make huge payments that result in fewer farms and higher farming costs, nor bear the environmental consequences of all-out production. Instead, he outlines a bold new strategy in which we can enjoy our abundance and focus our efforts on quality of life and protecting the environment in our rural areas. Willard W. Cochrane is the author of numerous books, including The Development of American Agriculture: A Historical Analysis, and coauthor of Reforming Farm Policy: Toward a National Agenda. Richard A. Levins is a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota and the author of Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm (Nebraska 2003).
Book Synopsis Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: Farms by : Liberty Hyde Bailey
Download or read book Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: Farms written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: Farm and community by : Liberty Hyde Bailey
Download or read book Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: Farm and community written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Agriculture by : Robert Charles Winthrop
Download or read book American Agriculture written by Robert Charles Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Men and Milestones in American Agriculture by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Download or read book Men and Milestones in American Agriculture written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Agriculture Day by : United States. National Park Service
Download or read book American Agriculture Day written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1955* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Farmer and the New Day by : Kenyon Leech Butterfield
Download or read book The Farmer and the New Day written by Kenyon Leech Butterfield and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: