The Changing Scale Of American Agriculture
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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.
Size Structure And The Changing Face Of American Agriculture
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Author : Arne Hallam
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2019-09-05
Size Structure And The Changing Face Of American Agriculture written by Arne Hallam and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Science categories.
Presents the latest findings on past changes in structure, the factors that lead to structural change, its effect on societal welfare and what will happen to the structure of agriculture in the years ahead. The book provides insights on issues such as the family farm, the industrialization of agriculture and the impact of agricultural technology on the environment.
Technology Public Policy And The Changing Structure Of American Agriculture
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Technology Public Policy And The Changing Structure Of American Agriculture written by and has been published by 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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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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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Technology Public Policy And The Changing Structure Of American Agriculture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Agricultural innovations categories.
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 Agriculture
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Author : R. Douglas Hurt
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2002
American Agriculture written by R. Douglas Hurt and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essential for understanding the complexity of American agricultural history, from the transition to commercial agriculture during the colonial period to the failure of government policy following World War II. Complete with maps, drawings, and over seventy splendid photographs, this revised edition closes with an examination of the troubled landscape at the turn of the twenty-first century. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America and the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and women. This survey will serve as a text for courses in the history of American agriculture and rural studies as well as a supplementary text for economic history and rural sociology courses.
Publicly Funded Agricultural Research And The Changing Structure Of U S Agriculture
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2002-04-18
Publicly Funded Agricultural Research And The Changing Structure Of U S Agriculture written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-18 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested that the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council (NRC) convene a panel of experts to examine whether publicly funded agricultural research has influenced the structure of U.S. agriculture and, if so, how. The Committee to Review the Role of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on the Structure of U.S. Agriculture was asked to assess the role of public-sector agricultural research on changes in the size and numbers of farms, with particular emphasis on the evolution of very-large-scale operations.
American Agriculture
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Author : Ronald Lester Mighell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
American Agriculture written by Ronald Lester Mighell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Agriculture categories.
Agriculture today and yesterday; Agriculture in the total economic process; Dimensions of the agricultural plant; Structure of commercial farms-scale; Structure of commercial farms-type; Farm tenure and debtChanges and structural strain; Group interests in agriculture.
Change In Agriculture
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Author : Clarence H. Danhof
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1969
Change In Agriculture written by Clarence H. Danhof and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Business & Economics categories.
American agriculture changed radically between 1820 and 1870. In turning slowly from subsistence to commercial farming, farmers on the average doubled the portion of their production places on the market, and thereby laid the foundations for today's highly productive agricultural industry. But the modern system was by no means inevitable. It evolved slowly through an intricate process in which innovative and imitative entrepreneurs were the key instruments.