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A New Technological Era For American Agriculture
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Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1992
A New Technological Era For American Agriculture written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Agricultural biotechnology categories.
A New Technological Era For American Agriculture
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Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
language : en
Publisher: Office of Technology Assessment
Release Date : 1992
A New Technological Era For American Agriculture written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and has been published by Office of Technology Assessment this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Science categories.
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A New Technological Era For American Agriculture
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Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
language : en
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Release Date : 1992
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Technology Public Policy And The Changing Structure Of American Agriculture
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Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1986
Technology Public Policy And The Changing Structure Of American Agriculture written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Agricultural innovations categories.
Technology Public Policy And The Changing Structure Of American Agriculture
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Technology Public Policy And The Changing Structure Of American Agriculture
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A Revolution Down On The Farm
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Author : Paul K. Conkin
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2008-09-01
A Revolution Down On The Farm written by Paul K. Conkin and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with History categories.
At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century. Fifty years ago, the planet could not have sustained a population of 6.5 billion; now, commercial and industrial agriculture ensure that millions will not die from starvation. Farmers are able to feed an exponentially growing planet because the greatest industrial revolution in history has occurred in agriculture since 1929, with U.S. farmers leading the way. Productivity on American farms has increased tenfold, even as most small farmers and tenants have been forced to find other work. Today, only 300,000 farms produce approximately ninety percent of the total output, and overproduction, largely subsidized by government programs and policies, has become the hallmark of modern agriculture. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 charts the profound changes in farming that have occurred during author Paul K. Conkin's lifetime. His personal experiences growing up on a small Tennessee farm complement compelling statistical data as he explores America's vast agricultural transformation and considers its social, political, and economic consequences. He examines the history of American agriculture, showing how New Deal innovations evolved into convoluted commodity programs following World War II. Conkin assesses the skills, new technologies, and government policies that helped transform farming in America and suggests how new legislation might affect farming in decades to come. Although the increased production and mechanization of farming has been an economic success story for Americans, the costs are becoming increasingly apparent. Small farmers are put out of business when they cannot compete with giant, non-diversified corporate farms. Caged chickens and hogs in factory-like facilities or confined dairy cattle require massive amounts of chemicals and hormones ultimately ingested by consumers. Fertilizers, new organic chemicals, manure disposal, and genetically modified seeds have introduced environmental problems that are still being discovered. A Revolution Down on the Farm concludes with an evaluation of farming in the twenty-first century and a distinctive meditation on alternatives to our present large scale, mechanized, subsidized, and fossil fuel and chemically dependent system.
American Farming Culture And The History Of Technology
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Author : Joshua T. Brinkman
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-05-06
American Farming Culture And The History Of Technology written by Joshua T. Brinkman and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-06 with Science categories.
Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture. Histories of agriculture often fail to give agency to farmers in bringing about change and ignore how people embed technology with social meaning. This book, however, shows how farmers use technology to express their identities in unspoken ways and provides a framework for bridging the current rural-urban divide by presenting a fresh perspective on rural cultural practices. Focusing on German and Jeffersonian farmers in the 18th century and Corn Belt producers in the 1920s, the Cold War, and the recent period of globalization, this book traces how farmers formed their own versions of rural modernity. Rural people use technology to contest urban modernity and debunk yokel stereotypes and women specifically employed technology to resist urban gender conceptions. This book shows how this performance of rural identity through technological use impacts a variety of current policy issues and business interests surrounding contemporary agriculture from the controversy over genetically modified organisms and hog confinement facilities to the growth of wind energy and precision technologies. Inspired by the author's own experience on his family’s farm, this book provides a novel and important approach to understanding how farmers’ culture has changed over time, and why machinery is such a potent part of their identity. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agricultural history, technology and policy, rural studies, the history of science and technology, and the history of farming culture in the USA.
Technology Public Policy And The Changing Structure Of American Agriculture
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