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Author : Iowa AgState Group
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Vision for Iowa Agriculture written by Iowa AgState Group and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (993 download)
Download or read book A Vision for Iowa Animal Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Thicke
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780979210402
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)
Download or read book A New Vision for Iowa Food and Agriculture written by Francis Thicke and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Thicke, PhD, is a scientist, an expert on sustainable agriculture, and a practicing dairy farmer. He is widely consulted for his clear explanations of the economic and ecological forces that are changing the way we produce food in the modern world. This book draws from his background as an organic dairy farmer, and as a soil scientist who has served at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. as National Program Leader for Soil Science. This introductory book addresses topics from industrial farming (including CAFOs --- Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) to the ongoing conflicts between factory farms and family farms, to how family farms can be profitable after peak oil. He also examines industrial agriculture and nature's own ecological methods, and shows how, in his own dairy operation, new sustainable approaches can be less costly, more productive, and return more profits to farmers. Dr. Thicke is an advocate for the systematic improvement of agricultural technology and farming methods, and for the effective use of sustainable, renewable sources of energy to achieve self-sufficiency in food production. His insights have proven increasingly relevant in the development of new public policy for Iowa, with profound implications for the United States as a whole.
Author : Richard S. Kirkendall
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532688
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Uncle Henry written by Richard S. Kirkendall and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founder of Wallaces' Farmer, adviser to Theodore Roosevelt, and consultant to Iowa State College, Uncle Henry Wallace - perhaps more than any writer since Jefferson - spoke of rural society in terms of its significant role in the success of the American democratic vision. This book fills a gap in the history of Midwestern agriculture and the influence of the farm press.
Author : William Lockeretz
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Visions of American Agriculture written by William Lockeretz and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive in its scope, Visions of American Agriculture discusses the issues that confront agriculture today -- environmental degradation, declining rural communities, economic inequities, and changing national and global realities. In response to these challenges, the authors develop ideas about agriculture that preserve and refine the best of traditions, while promoting new approaches to farm life, rural communities, the food system, applications of science and technology, and enlightened policies. Concerned with the fate of individuals, families, and communities, their proposals look beyond the next farm bill and the nearest crisis to the evolving future of the nation -- a future in which agriculture, however transformed, will still be at the heart of American life.
Author : Beth Hoffman
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 164283159X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Bet the Farm written by Beth Hoffman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eloquent and detailed...It's hard to have hope, but the organized observations and plans of Hoffman and people like her give me some. Read her book -- and listen." -- Jane Smiley, The Washington Post In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband's family ranch in Iowa--all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019, and many struggle just to stay afloat. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth's eyes. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. And finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID-19, to slaughter grass finished beef is a nightmare. If Beth can't make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don't have other jobs to fall back on hack it? Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.
Author : Bill Silag
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Creating the Engaged University written by Bill Silag and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603588000
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Farming for the Long Haul written by Michael Foley and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming in the ruins of the twentieth century -- A short, unhappy history of business advice for farmers -- Subsistence first! -- Land for the tiller -- Soil, civilization, and resilient farmers through the centuries -- Resourceful farmers -- Woodlands and wastes -- It takes a village: leisure, community, and resilience -- Getting a living, forging a livelihood -- Farmer, citizen, survivor: politics and resilience
Author : Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813125871
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Agrarian Vision written by Paul B. Thompson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance between progress and the earth's ability to provide for its inhabitants grows increasingly precarious as we attempt to achieve sustainable development. In The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics, Paul B. Thompson articulates a new agrarian philosophy, emphasizing the vital role of agrarianism in modern agricultural practices. Thompson, a highly regarded voice in environmental philosophy, unites concepts of agrarian philosophy, political theory, and environmental ethics to illustrate the importance of creating and maintaining environmentally conscious communities. Thompson describes the evolution of agrarian values in America, following the path blazed by Thomas Jefferson, John Steinbeck, and Wendell Berry. Providing a pragmatic approach to ecological responsibility and commitment, The Agrarian Vision is a significant, compelling argument for the practice of a reconfigured and expanded agrarianism in our efforts to support modern industrialized culture while also preserving the natural world.
Author : Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439669732
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Iowa Agriculture written by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tall Corn State's agricultural history influences countless aspects of modern life. To truly understand Iowa, you have to understand the culture of agriculture--the stories of the people of the land. In many ways, these are untold stories, especially as more generations of families are further removed from living or working on Iowa farms. Visitors from around the globe travel to Iowa annually for major events like the Farm Progress Show, the World Pork Expo and the World Food Prize. Agriculture has shaped Iowa's landscape from the location of towns and the evolution of the world-famous Iowa State Fair to Iowa's beloved culinary traditions like breaded pork tenderloins, sweet corn and more. Join fifth-generation Iowa farmer Darcy Dougherty Maulsby as she details the fascinating history of agriculture in Iowa.
Author : Jenny Barker Devine
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381491
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book On Behalf of the Family Farm written by Jenny Barker Devine and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Behalf of the Family Farm traces the development of women’s activism and agrarian feminisms in the Midwest after 1945, as farm women’s lives were being transformed by the realities of modern agriculture. Author Jenny Barker Devine demonstrates that in an era when technology, depopulation, and rapid economic change dramatically altered rural life, midwestern women met these challenges with their own feminine vision of farm life. Their “agrarian feminisms” offered an alternative to, but not necessarily a rejection of, second-wave feminism. Focusing on women in four national farm organizations in Iowa—the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union, the National Farm Organization, and the Porkettes—Devine highlights specific moments in time when farm women had to reassess their roles and strategies for preserving and improving their way of life. Rather than retreat from the male-dominated world of agribusiness and mechanized production, postwar women increasingly asserted their identities as agricultural producers and demanded access to public spaces typically reserved for men. Over the course of several decades, they developed agrarian feminisms that combined cherished rural traditions with female empowerment, cooperation, and collaboration. Iowa farm women emphasized working partnerships between husbands and wives, women’s work in agricultural production, and women’s unique ways of understanding large-scale conventional farming.
Author : Iowa. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Iowa Year Book of Agriculture written by Iowa. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings, reports, statistics, etc. of different county and district agricultural institutes and societies.
Author : Lance M. Foster
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298171
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Indians of Iowa written by Lance M. Foster and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of Iowa's Native American tribes that discusses their history, culture, language, and traditions, and includes illustrations.
Author : Timothy A. Wise
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620974231
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Eating Tomorrow written by Timothy A. Wise and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.
Author : Iowa. Department of Agriculture
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Iowa Year Book of Agriculture written by Iowa. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iowa State University. Center for Industrial Research and Service
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Biobased Products, and Bioenergy Vision and Roadmap for Iowa written by Iowa State University. Center for Industrial Research and Service and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document represents the result of a disciplined effort in Iowa to envision a new BioEconomy, explore its implications, communicate its potential, and outline issues that need to be addressed in order to increase the availability and use of biomass to produce biobased products and bioenergy. A group of diverse stakeholders, including producers, commodity groups, private industry, financial institutions, state agencies, environmental advocates and university researchers launched the Iowa Industries of the Future (IIOF)/Agriculture project with the purpose of developing a vision for converting agricultural crops and residues into biobased products and bioenergy and charting a roadmap for achieving this vision.
Author : Iowa. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Iowa Year Book of Agriculture written by Iowa. Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
