Download or read book Economic and Social Changes on Wisconsin Family Farms written by Peter Dorner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wisconsin Agriculture in Historical Perspective written by Douglas B. Jackson-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of the Family Farm in Central Southern Wisconsin 1890 1990 written by Bill Gill and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family farm in America is often referred to as the backbone of the nation's identity. The number of active farms in Wisconsin has shrunk from a high in 1934 of 200,000 to the current number of less than 68,000. With the loss of these farms, Wisconsin's rural society loses jobs on the farm and throughout the community. This research focuses on the negative social, economic and political impact on rural communities resulting from farm loss.
Download or read book The Changing Role of Rural Life in Wisconsin written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Families on Farms written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Families on Farms: Migrants, Farmers, and the Transformation of Wisconsin's Countryside, 1920s-60s" is a social and cultural history of industrial agriculture in the rural Midwest. It foregrounds the experiences of ethnic Mexican farmworkers who migrated to Wisconsin's fruit and vegetable farms throughout the twentieth century, and examines their relationships with white family farmers, year-round residents, state reformers and other citizens who became embroiled in the changes that occurred as commercial farming transformed the countryside. Ethnic Mexicans who immigrated from Mexico into the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas in the early twentieth century became vital to the development of large-scale, industrial farming in Texas and the Midwest. They harvested a variety of crops in both regions and usually worked as family units in order to supplement the low wages paid to them by growers and agricultural corporations. In Wisconsin, ethnic Mexican farmworkers became viewed and treated as racial outsiders by the year-round community, their status determined and reinforced through the labor they performed, the spaces they inhabited, and the unequal social treatment they endured. By analyzing farmworkers' familial strategies, working conditions, and living spaces in relation to those of white, year-round farming families, we can trace how ideas about race, gender, and citizenship became constituted through the material world of the countryside. Debates unfolded about the place that migrant farmworkers would occupy within farming communities. State and religious reformers, along with some ordinary residents, organized programs to improve farmworkers' living conditions while they toiled in Wisconsin's agricultural fields. Such programs often reinforced ethnic Mexicans' status as outsiders even though they sought to bridge the social divisions that existed between seasonal and year-round residents. As farmworkers continued to migrate after World War II, they forged their own meaningful connections to Wisconsin people and places, challenging the notion that they did not belong there. "Families on Farms" recasts the story of twentieth-century midwestern agriculture by showing how ethnic Mexican farmworkers figured prominently in the material, economic, and social developments that transformed the rural Midwest.
Download or read book Farming the Cutover written by Robert J. Gough and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming the Cutover describes the visions and accomplishments of these settlers from their perspective. People of the cutover managed to forge lives relatively independent of market pressures, and for this they were characterized as backward by outsiders and their part of the state was seen as a hideout for organized crime figures. State and federal planners, county agents, and agriculture professors eventually determined that the cutover could be engineered by professional and academic expertise into a Progressive social model and the lives of its inhabitants improved. By 1940, they had begun to implement public policies that discouraged farming, and they eventually decided that the region should be depopulated and the forests replanted. By exploring the history of an eighteen-county region, Robert Gough illustrates the travails of farming in marginal areas. He juxtaposes the social history of the farmers with the opinions and programs of the experts who sought to improve the region. Significantly, what occurred in the Wisconsin cutover anticipated the sweeping changes that transformed American agriculture after World War II.
Download or read book Rural Wisconsin s Economy and Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Size Farm Enlargement and Related Socio economic Factors on Wisconsin Dairy Farms 1950 1960 written by Myo Nyunt and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Structural and Technological Changes in Agriculture 1977 85 written by Mary E. Lassanyi and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wisconsin Agriculture written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm embarrassed to say I thought I knew anything substantial about Wisconsin agriculture or its history before I read this book. 'Wisconsin Agriculture' should be required reading in history classes from high school to the collegiate level. It makes me thankful that Jerry Apps has such a sense of commitment to Wisconsin's agricultural heritage--and to getting the story right." --Pam Jahnke, Farm Director, Wisconsin Farm Report Radio Wisconsin has been a farming state from its very beginnings. And though it's long been known as "the Dairy State," it produces much more than cows, milk, and cheese. In fact, Wisconsin is one of the most diverse agricultural states in the nation. The story of farming in Wisconsin is rich and diverse as well, and the threads of that story are related and intertwined. In this long-awaited volume, celebrated rural historian Jerry Apps examines everything from the fundamental influences of landscape and weather to complex matters of ethnic and pioneer settlement patterns, changing technology, agricultural research and education, and government regulations and policies. Along with expected topics, such as the cranberry industry and artisan cheesemaking, "Wisconsin Agriculture" delves into beef cattle and dairy goats, fur farming and Christmas trees, maple syrup and honey, and other specialty crops, including ginseng, hemp, cherries, sugar beets, mint, sphagnum moss, flax, and hops. Apps also explores new and rediscovered farming endeavors, from aquaculture to urban farming to beekeeping, and discusses recent political developments, such as the 2014 Farm Bill and its ramifications. And he looks to the future of farming, contemplating questions of ethical growing practices, food safety, sustainability, and the potential effects of climate change. Featuring first-person accounts from the settlement era to today, along with more than 200 captivating photographs, "Wisconsin Agriculture" breathes life into the facts and figures of 150 years of farming history and provides compelling insights into the state's agricultural past, present, and future.
Download or read book Technology And Social Change In Rural Areas written by Gene F Summers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The possibility of nuclear war, the failure of the Green Revolution, the capabilities of genetic engineering, and other actual and potential effects of technological innovations have created demands for a more humane application of technology. Addressing this issue, Technology and Social Change in Rural Areas is a clear assessment of the current state of affairs. The book begins with a discussion of the changing paradigms of technology adoption and diffusion, the dynamics of public resistance, and the question of social responsibility in an age of synthetic biology. In subsequent sections, the contributors assess the revolutionary effect of technology on agriculture worldwide and conclude that radically new public policies are essential; expose the transformations of rural life and communities that result from the localized effects of technology and its use as a weapon in world-system politics; and critically examine the appropriate technology movement. The essays are presented to honor Professor Eugene A. Wilkening for his many pioneering and lasting contributions to the study of technology and rural social change. The book includes an intellectual biography of Professor Wilkening written by his long-time colleague and friend, William H. Sewell.
Download or read book An Adaptive Program for Agriculture written by Committee for Economic Development and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Equilibrium Theory written by M. Ross DeWitt and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Equilibrium Theory is a fundamentally new interpretation of social reality that introduces theories of social formation and transformation, for micro- and macro-analysis of action systems and social movements. Equilibrium and conflict are viewed as societal variants rather than as ideal or natural states. Classical theorists are placed within a common theoretical framework, in an analysis of social order and social change as separate continua. Multiple path models trace changing patterns of partnering and power sharing. Hypotheses are tested with field-collected survey data, regression analysis of higher-order interactions, and comparisons of means adjusted for other effects. Researchers are provided with detailed methods of integrating theory and research, including nonlinear models and new logics of causality.
Download or read book Financial Status of Wisconsin Farming written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Changes on a Sample of Wisconsin Farms 1950 1975 written by Peter Dorner and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Thousand Pieces of Paradise written by Lynne Heasley and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Thousand Pieces of Paradise is an ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems set in one of the Midwest’s most historically significant regions, the Kickapoo River Valley. Whether examining the national war on soil erosion, Amish migration, a Corps of Engineers dam project, or Native American land claims, Lynne Heasley traces the history of modern American property debates. Her book holds powerful lessons for rural communities seeking to reconcile competing values about land and their place in it.
Download or read book Socio economic Differences Among Rural Farm Families in Two Wisconsin Townships written by Peter F. Roycraft and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
