Download or read book Cultivating Cooperation written by Raymond A. Young and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most successful farm organizations in the United States, the Missouri Farmers Association brought together farm clubs from all over the state to serve as the central body through which farmer-owned businesses could compete with investor-owned businesses. In Cultivating Cooperation, Raymond A. Young follows the fascinating history of MFA from its grass-roots beginning in a schoolhouse in 1914 through the upheaval that led to only the second leadership change in the organization's history in 1979. William Hirth was responsible for the early success of MFA. At the age of fifteen, Hirth became interested in farming and started lecturing on the benefits of building a cooperative of farm clubs. He continued to advocate this idea by publishing The Missouri Farmer, a magazine that informed subscribers on legislative issues and farm club news and later became MFA's house organ. Hirth believed that the farm clubs should capitalize not only on the economic advantages of joining together as a cooperative, but on the political and social advantages as well. Upon Hirth's death in 1940, Fred Heinkel took over leadership of MFA. Under his guidance, the cooperative grew at a feverish rate. Supply companies, such as oil refineries, feed mills, and seed plants, were acquired or built whenever it proved advantageous to the farmers. A sister cooperative was created to expand into neighboring states, and a national alliance was created to establish a stronger representation in Washington, D.C. MFA was also instrumental in securing a fourÞyear medical school in its hometown of Columbia in order to ensure medical care for farmers and their families in rural areas. In addition, MFA has played a role in helping Third World countries develop cooperatives of their own. With intimate knowledge of the organization, Raymond Young involves the reader in the intricacies of the formation and development of the Missouri Farmers Association, enlivening his account with liberal use of anecdotes from the pages of The Missouri Farmer. An introduction by Michael L. Cook places the story of MFA within the context of the history of the cooperative movement nationwide. Students and scholars of Missouri history, as well as farmers and those interested in agriculture, will find this comprehensive examination of MFA an invaluable resource.
Download or read book Missouri Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Missouri written by Thad Snow and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snow purchased a thousand acres of southeast Missouri swampland in 1910, cleared it, drained it, and eventually planted it in cotton. Although he employed sharecroppers, he grew to become a bitter critic of the labor system after a massive flood and the Great Depression worsened conditions for these already-burdened workers. Shocking his fellow landowners, Snow invited the Southern Tenant Farmers Union to organize the workers on his land. He was even once accused of fomenting a strike and publicly threatened with horsewhipping. Snow’s admiration for Owen Whitfield, the African American leader of the Sharecroppers’ Roadside Demonstration, convinced him that nonviolent resistance could defeat injustice. Snow embraced pacifism wholeheartedly and denounced all war as evil even as America mobilized for World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he became involved with creating Missouri’s conservation movement. Near the end of his life, he found a retreat in the Missouri Ozarks, where he wrote this recollection of his life. This unique and honest series of personal essays expresses the thoughts of a farmer, a hunter, a husband, a father and grandfather, a man with a soft spot for mules and dogs and all kinds of people. Snow’s prose reveals much about a way of life in the region during the first half of the twentieth century, as well as the social and political events that affected the entire nation. Whether arguing that a good stock dog should be left alone to do its work, explaining the process of making swampland suitable for agriculture, or putting forth his case for world peace, Snow’s ideas have a special authenticity because they did not come from an ivory tower or a think tank—they came From Missouri.
Download or read book Deep River written by David Hamilton and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep River uncovers the layers of history—both personal and regional—that have accumulated on a river-bottom farm in west-central Missouri. This land was part of a late frontier, passed over, then developed through the middle of the last century as the author's father and uncle cleared a portion of it and established their farm. Hamilton traces the generations of Native Americans, frontiersmen, settlers, and farmers who lived on and alongside the bottomland over the past two centuries. It was a region fought over by Union militia and Confederate bushwhackers, as well as by their respective armies; an area that invited speculation and the establishment of several small towns, both before and after the Civil War; land on which the Missouri Indians made their long last stand, less as a military force than as a settlement and civilization; land that attracted French explorers, the first Europeans to encounter the Missouris and their relatives, the Ioways, Otoes, and Osage, a century before Lewis and Clark. It is land with a long history of occupation and use, extending millennia before the Missouris. Most recently it was briefly and intensively receptive to farming before being restored in large part as state-managed wetlands. Deep River is composed of four sections, each exploring aspects of the farm and its neighborhood. While the family story remains central to each, slavery and the Civil War in the nineteenth century and Native American history in the centuries before that become major themes as well. The resulting portrait is both personal memoir and informal history, brought up from layers of time, the compound of which forms an emblematic American story.
Download or read book Farm written by Richard Rhodes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-11-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the challenges and rewards faced by modern farms in the Midwest, and looks at the seasonal milestones of rural life
Download or read book A Century of Missouri Agriculture written by Frederick Blackmar Mumford and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Testing Fertilizers for Missouri Farmers 1926 written by Leonard Dixon Haigh and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm book keeping written by William Inglis (accountant.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture written by Missouri. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Testing Fertilizers for Missouri Farmers 1927 written by Leonard Dixon Haigh and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture written by Missouri State Board of Agriculture and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book Annual Report of State Leader of Farm Advisers written by Missouri Agricultural Extension Service and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture written by Missouri. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture written by Missouri. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Missouri State Horticultural Society for the years 1865-1879, inclusive.
Download or read book Agricultural Advertising written by Elmer E. Critchfield and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missouri Homestead written by T. L. Tedrow and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1884, and after devastating losses in South Dakota, Laura, Manly, and little Rose head East to Mansfield, Missouri, in search of a new beginning.
