Farming In The U S

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Farming In The U S

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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961

Farming In The U S written by United States. Department of Agriculture and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Farms categories.

Farming For Us All

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Author : Michael Mayerfeld Bell
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2024-02-20

Farming For Us All written by Michael Mayerfeld Bell and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-20 with Social Science categories.

Climate change. Habitat loss. Soil erosion. Groundwater depletion. Toxins in our food. Inhumane treatment of farm animals. Increasing farm worker exploitation. Hunger and malnutrition in the midst of plenty. What will it take for farmers in the United States to embrace sustainable practices? Michael Mayerfeld Bell’s Farming for Us All first tackled this question twenty years ago, providing crucial insight into how the structure of US agriculture created this situation and exploring, by contrast, the practices of farmers who are working together to radically change how they think, learn, and grow. This updated edition of his now-classic work reflects on the lessons learned over the past two decades. Constrained by an oppressive nexus of markets, regulations, subsidies, and technology, farmers find themselves undermining their own economic and social security as well as the security of the land. Bell turns to Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI), that state’s largest sustainable-agriculture group. He traces how PFI creates an agriculture that engages others—farmers, researchers, officials, and consumers—in a common conversation about what agriculture could look like. Through dialogue, PFI members crossbreed knowledge, discovering pragmatic solutions to help crops grow in ways that sustain families, communities, societies, economies, and environments. Farming for Us All makes the case that for sustainable farming to flourish, new social relations are as important to cultivate as new crops. This book is necessary—and hopeful—reading for anyone concerned about the present and future of food and farming.

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.

The Changing Scale Of American Agriculture

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Author : John Fraser Hart
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2003

The Changing Scale Of American Agriculture written by John Fraser Hart and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.

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.

The American Farm

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Author : John Fraser Hart
language : en
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Release Date : 1998

The American Farm written by John Fraser Hart and has been published by Barnes & Noble this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Generalized Types Of Farming In The United States

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Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950

Generalized Types Of Farming In The United States written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Agricultural geography categories.

The State Of American Agriculture

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978

The State Of American Agriculture written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Agriculture categories.

Large Scale Farming In The United States

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Author : Dwight Curtis Mumford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938

Large Scale Farming In The United States written by Dwight Curtis Mumford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Agriculture categories.

The Land That Feeds Us

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Author : John Fraser Hart
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 1991

The Land That Feeds Us written by John Fraser Hart and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Agriculture categories.

Structure Issues Of American Agriculture

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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979

Structure Issues Of American Agriculture written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Agriculture categories.