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Book Where Have the Farmlands Gone

Download or read book Where Have the Farmlands Gone written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Where Have the Farm Lands Gone

Download or read book Where Have the Farm Lands Gone written by Shirley Foster Fields and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Where have the farm lands gone

Download or read book Where have the farm lands gone written by Shirley Foster Fields and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Where Have the Farm Lands Gone

Download or read book Where Have the Farm Lands Gone written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Where Have the Farm Lands Gone   4Th Printing

Download or read book Where Have the Farm Lands Gone 4Th Printing written by National Agricultural Lands Study (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Where Have the Farmlands Gone

Download or read book Where Have the Farmlands Gone written by Shirley Foster Fields and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Where Have the Farm Lands Gone

Download or read book Where Have the Farm Lands Gone written by Shirley Foster Fields and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vanishing Farmland Crisis

Download or read book The Vanishing Farmland Crisis written by John Baden and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newspapers seem to be telling us that every cornfield is threatened by a Dairy Queen. This media barrage about the crisis of our “shrinking” farmland can be traced to the 1979 publication of Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study. The NALS report, to which eleven federal agencies contributed, argued that land-use planning and control must be employed to protect valuable farmland from “urban sprawl.” This volume, a collection of essays by a distinguished group of economists including Theodore W. Schultz, Julian L. Simon, and Pierre Crosson, takes issue with the belief that croplands need governmental protection. In opposition the collection as a whole supports two theses: 1) shrinking farm acreage is not a serious problem, and 2) individual choices by landowners in a market setting result in better-organized land use than would governmental land-use planning and regulation. Published for the Political Economy Research Center, Bozeman, Montana

Book American Harvest

Download or read book American Harvest written by Marie Mutsuki Mockett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.

Book The Changing Scale of American Agriculture

Download or read book The Changing Scale of American Agriculture written by John Fraser Hart and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Americans know much about contemporary farming, which has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. In The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, the award-winning geographer and landscape historian John Fraser Hart describes the transformation of farming from the mid-twentieth century, when small family farms were still viable, to the present, when a farm must sell at least $250,000 of farm products each year to provide an acceptable level of living for a family. The increased scale of agriculture has outmoded the Jeffersonian ideal of small, self-sufficient farms. In the past farmers kept a variety of livestock and grew several crops, but modern family farms have become highly specialized in producing a single type of livestock or one or two crops. As farms have become larger and more specialized, their number has declined. Hart contends that modern family farms need to become integrated into tightly orchestrated food-supply chains in order to thrive, and these complex new organizations of large-scale production require managerial skills of the highest order. According to Hart, this trend is not only inevitable, but it is beneficial, because it produces the food American consumers want to buy at prices they can afford. Although Hart provides the statistics and clear analysis such a study requires, his book focuses on interviews with farmers: those who have shifted from mixed crop-and-livestock farming to cash-grain farming in the Midwest agricultural heartland; beef, dairy, chicken, egg, turkey, and hog producers around the periphery of the heartland; and specialty crop producers on the East and West Coasts. These invaluable case studies bring the reader into direct personal contact with the entrepreneurs who are changing American agriculture. Hart believes that modern large-scale farmers have been criticized unfairly, and The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, the result of decades of research, is his attempt to tell their side of the story.

Book The Third Plate

Download or read book The Third Plate written by Dan Barber and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] renowned chef ... Barber explores the evolution of American food from the "first plate," or industrially-produced, meat-heavy dishes, to the "second plate" of grass-fed meat and organic greens, and says that both of these approaches are ultimately neither sustainable nor healthy. Instead, Barber proposes Americans should move to the "third plate," a cuisine rooted in seasonal productivity, natural livestock rhythms, whole-grains, and small portions of free-range meat"--Provided by publisher.

Book Agriculture Conference and Farm Board Inquiry

Download or read book Agriculture Conference and Farm Board Inquiry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Budget for the Department of agriculture  general agricultural outlook  Secretary of agriculture

Download or read book Budget for the Department of agriculture general agricultural outlook Secretary of agriculture written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1966

Download or read book Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1966 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forest Lands of the United States

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Forestry Joint Committee
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  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1018 pages

Download or read book Forest Lands of the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Forestry Joint Committee and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Farm Relief Legislation

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
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  • Release : 1929
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 852 pages

Download or read book Farm Relief Legislation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: