American Farmers

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Total Pages : 776 pages
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Download or read book The American Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 800 pages
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Download or read book American Farmers' Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Turner
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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book The American Farmer written by John Turner and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gilbert Courtland Fite
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ISBN 13 : 9780253203212
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book American Farmers written by Gilbert Courtland Fite and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026235585X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New American Farmer written by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. Although the majority of farms in the United States have US-born owners who identify as white, a growing number of new farmers are immigrants, many of them from Mexico, who originally came to the United States looking for work in agriculture. In The New American Farmer, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern explores the experiences of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners, offering a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. She finds that many of these new farmers rely on farming practices from their home countries—including growing multiple crops simultaneously, using integrated pest management, maintaining small-scale production, and employing family labor—most of which are considered alternative farming techniques in the United States. Drawing on extensive interviews with farmers and organizers, Minkoff-Zern describes the social, economic, and political barriers immigrant farmers must overcome, from navigating USDA bureaucracy to racialized exclusion from opportunities. She discusses, among other topics, the history of discrimination against farm laborers in the United States; the invisibility of Latino/a farmers to government and universities; new farmers' sense of agrarian and racial identity; and the future of the agrarian class system. Minkoff-Zern argues that immigrant farmers, with their knowledge and experience of alternative farming practices, are—despite a range of challenges—actively and substantially contributing to the movement for an ecological and sustainable food system. Scholars and food activists should take notice.

Author : American Farmer Company
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Total Pages : 430 pages
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Download or read book The American Farmer written by American Farmer Company and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John S. Skinner
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Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book The American Farmer written by John S. Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul K. Conkin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081313868X
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book A Revolution Down on the Farm written by Paul K. Conkin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lowry Nelson
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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book American Farm Life written by Lowry Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "American Farm Life".

Author : Gilbert Courtland Fite
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 265 pages
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Download or read book American Farmers written by Gilbert Courtland Fite and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: