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Author | : Forrest Pritchard |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0762794380 |
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One fateful day in 1996, upon discovering that five freight cars’ worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard undertakes to save his family’s farm. What ensues—through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters—is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard’s biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his career choice and eschews organic foods for sugary mainstream fare; but just when the farm starts to turn heads at local markets, his father’s health takes a turn for the worse.With poetry and humor, this timely memoir tugs on the heartstrings and feeds the soul long after the last page is turned.
Author | : Doug Hoverson |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1452913374 |
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A visual history of MInnesota beers and breweries traces the evolution of the state's beer industry, from the 1849 construction of the first brewery to the growth of small-town enterprises that gave way to large companies of regional and national prominence, offering a comprehensive list of Minnesota breweries as well as more than three hundred illustrations of beer and breweriana.
Author | : Teresa Opheim |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2016-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1609384539 |
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A monumental transfer of farmland is occurring in the United States. The average American farmer is fifty-eight years old, and the 40 percent of farmland owners who lease their land to others are even older: sixty-six on average. Five times as many farmers are over sixty-five as are under thirty-five. What will happen to this land? Who will own it? What if one child wants to farm but can't afford to buy out the nonfarming siblings? What if keeping the farm in the family means foregoing the significant profits that could be earned from selling it? These sometimes painful and divisive questions confront many farmers and farmland owners today. How they answer them will shape their families and the land for generations to come. The Farm Legacy Letters project, developed by the member-driven nonprofit Practical Farmers of Iowa, is designed to help farmers and farmland owners think about their farm’s future and talk about it with their families. An essential complement to handbooks on business succession, this book gathers the letters and stories of midwestern families about the land they cherish—how they acquired it, what they treasure most about it, and their hopes for its future. Some of the writers descend from families who have owned a particular patch of the earth since the 1800s, while others became farmland owners more recently—one as recently as 2015. Some are no longer farmland owners at all, because—after careful thought about what mattered most to them—they sold their land to the next generation of farmers. All of these writers hope that, by sharing their farmland legacies, they will encourage others to ponder and then write about the histories, accomplishments, challenges, and hopes for their farmland for the generations who come after they are gone.
Author | : Dana Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9780692155431 |
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Rocky, the dog, lives on the multi-generational Rhodes Family Farm. It's a busy place where his gal pal Dusty, her parents and grandparents work together to feed livestock and harvest grain. They do so with the help of their trusty farm equipment, each with its own name and personality.When Coretta the combine breaks down in the middle of harvest, Rocky saves the day by retrieving the one person who can fix her - Gramps.The book depicts the food production process from farm to grain elevator delivery to shipping to finished product. It tells the story of everyone working in harmony on a family farm to help feed the world and the equipment they use to do so.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Family farms |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Family farms |
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Author | : Mary Neth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801848988 |
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Between 1900 and 1940 American family farming gave way to what came to be called agribusiness. Government policies, consumer goods aimed at rural markets, and the increasing consolidation of agricultural industries all combined to bring about changes in farming strategies that had been in use since the frontier era. Because the Midwestern farm economy played an important part in the relations of family and community, new approaches to farm production meant new patterns in interpersonal relations as well. In Preserving the Family Farm Mary Neth focuses on these relations--of gender and community--to shed new light on the events of this crucial period. (source: 4e de couverture).
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Family farms |
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Author | : Sue Headlee |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1991-11-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0313389160 |
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Agriculture played an important role in the transition to capitalism in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In her study, Sue Headlee argues that the family farm system, with its progressive nature and egalitarian class structure, revolutionized this transition to capitalism. The family farm is examined in light of its economic and political implications, showing the relationship between the family farm and fledgling industrial capitalism, a relationship that fostered the simultaneous industrial and agricultural revolutions and the creation of an agro-industrial complex. Headlee focuses on the adoption of the horse-drawn mechanical reaper (to harvest wheat) by family farmers in the 1850s. The neoclassical economic explanation, with its emphasis on the farm as a profit-maximizing firm, is criticized for its lack of recognition of the role of the family farm's egalitarian class structure. This look at the economic history of the United States has lessons for the Third World today: agricultural development is vital to the transition to capitalism; the agrarian class structures of Third World countries may be holding back that transition; and a family farm/land reform approach would lead to increases in productivity and in the material well-being of society. Headlee's analysis supports three important debates in political economy, thus providing the historical and theoretical context for understanding the role of agriculture in the transition to capitalism in general and in the particular case of the United States. Her findings conclude that agrarian class structures can explain the differential patterns of development in pre-industrial Europe. Further evidence is presented that the internal class structure of agrarian society is the crucial causal factor in the transition to capitalism and that market developments alone are not sufficient. Lastly and most controversially, Headlee acknowledges the importance of the Civil War in propelling the triumph of American capitalism, allowing the Republican Party (an alliance of family farmers and industrial capitalists) to take control of the state from the Democratic Party of the southern plantation owners. This book will be of interest to scholars in political economy, economic history, agrarian economics, and development economics.
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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