Download or read book From Prairie to Corn Belt written by Allan G. Bogue and published by Chicago, U. of Chicago P. This book was released on 1963 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of midwestern agricultural patterns, focusing on the farmer and his problems, by the president of the Agricultural History Society.

Download or read book From Prairie to Corn Belt Farming written by Bogue and published by Times Books. This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Making the Corn Belt written by John C. Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War demonstrated that, even though its agriculture was distinctive, the larger region was divided in social and political terms.

Download or read book Prairie Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur written by Dennis Nordin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their account will inform readers with a detailed account of one of the great transformations in American life."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book A Corn belt Farming System which Saves Harvest Labor by Hogging Down Crops written by Anna Barrows and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Corn belt Farming System which Saves Harvest Labor by Hogging Down Crops written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grain Farming in the Corn Belt with Live Stock as a Side Line written by Carl Schurz Vrooman and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shall I Buy a Tractor written by Le Roy August Reynoldson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Industrializing the Corn Belt written by J. L. Anderson and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, farmers in the Corn Belt transformed their region into a new, industrial powerhouse of large-scale production, mechanization, specialization, and efficiency. Many farm experts and implement manufacturers had urged farmers in this direction for decades, but it was the persistent labor shortage and cost-price squeeze following WWII that prompted farmers to pave the way to industrializing agriculture. Anderson examines the changes in Iowa, a representative state of the Corn Belt, in order to explore why farmers adopted particular technologies and how, over time, they integrated new tools and techniques. In addition to the impressive field machinery, grain storage facilities, and automated feeding systems were the less visible, but no less potent, chemical technologies--antibiotics and growth hormones administered to livestock, as well as insecticide, herbicide, and fertilizer applied to crops. Much of this new technology created unintended consequences: pesticides encouraged the proliferation of resistant strains of plants and insects while also polluting the environment and threatening wildlife, and the use of feed additives triggered concern about the health effects to consumers. In Industrializing the Corn Belt, J. L. Anderson explains that the cost of equipment and chemicals made unprecedented demands on farm capital, and in order to maximize production, farmers planted more acres with fewer but more profitable crops or specialized in raising large herds of a single livestock species. The industrialization of agriculture gave rural Americans a lifestyle resembling that of their urban and suburban counterparts. Yet the rural population continued to dwindle as farms required less human labor, and many small farmers, unable or unwilling to compete, chose to sell out. Based on farm records, cooperative extension reports, USDA publications, oral interviews, trade literature, and agricultural periodicals, Industrializing the Corn Belt offers a fresh look at an important period of revolutionary change in agriculture through the eyes of those who grew the crops, raised the livestock, implemented new technology, and ultimately made the decisions that transformed the nature of the family farm and the Midwestern landscape.

Download or read book Practical Corn Culture written by William Thomas Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Union Agriculturist and Western Prairie Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Corn Belt Harvest written by Raymond Bial and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs describe the United States Corn Belt region and its harvest season.

Download or read book From the Corn Belt to the Gulf written by Joan Iverson Nassauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nutrients from farms in the Mississippi River Basin are the leading cause of the Gulf of Mexico‘s 'Dead Zone,' a 5,000 to 7,000 square mile region where declining oxygen levels are threatening the survival of marine life. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf explores how new agricultural policy can help alleviate this problem, and at the same time improve water quality overall, enhance biodiversity, improve the quality of life for the people who live and work in Corn Belt communities, and relieve downstream flooding. The themes of the book are the far-reaching environmental impacts of Corn Belt agriculture, including associated economic and social effects at multiple spatial scales - and the potential for future agricultural policy to address those impacts through changes in agricultural landscapes and practices. We know that the environmental 'footprint' of Corn Belt agriculture extends beyond farmland and adjacent lakes and streams to groundwater, rivers, cities downstream, into the Gulf of Mexico, and, ultimately, to global oceanic and atmospheric systems. And we acknowledge that agricultural policies, including commodity support payments, have economic impacts at the national and international levels. Pressing negotiations with America‘s trade partners, along with increasing societal attention to both the costs and environmental effects of current agricultural policy, are creating momentum for policy change. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf presents innovative, integrated assessments of the agriculture and ecological systems in the Mississippi River Basin along with studies of local Iowa agricultural watersheds. Contributors from multiple academic and professional disciplines discuss how agricultural policies have contributed to current environmental conditions, and, in what the authors term 'alternative futures' for agricultural landscapes, envision how new policy can help achieve more beneficial patterns.

Download or read book A Corn Belt Farming System Which Saves Harvest Labor by Hogging Down Crops written by J. A. Drake and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Download or read book Frank Mann s Soil Book written by Frank I. Mann and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Land that Feeds Us written by John Fraser Hart and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the many Americans who have never set foot on a real farm, this book is required reading. . . . An engaging blend of agricultural history, geography, travel, and interviews with farmers [that] provides an unsentimental, realistic look at American farm life." --Library Journal