Helping Agricultural Producers Re Grow Rural America

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helping Agricultural Producers Re-grow Rural America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Helping Agricultural Producers Re-grow Rural America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Talent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756724238
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helping Agricultural Producers "Re-Grow" Rural America: Providing the Tools written by Jim Talent and published by . This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses: Charles Kruse, Pres., Missouri Farm Bureau Federation; J. Gary McDavid, Chair, Legal, Tax and Accounting Subcommittee on Tax Legislation, Nat. Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Rick Vallery, Exec. Dir., South Dakota Wheat, Inc.; Brooks Hurst, V.P., Missouri Soybean Assoc.; John Haverhals, Former Pres., South Dakota Cattlemen's Assoc.; and Gerald Tumbleson, Past-Pres., Minnesota Corn Growers Assoc.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helping Agricultural Producers Re-grow Rural America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary H. Holthaus
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813171601
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Farm to the Table written by Gary H. Holthaus and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would increase both efficiency and yield, or so we thought. The directions taken by technology may have worked for a while, but the same technologies that give us an advantage also create disadvantages. It’s now a common story in rural America: pesticides, fertilizers, “big iron” combines, and other costly advancements may increase speed but also reduce efficiency, while farmers endure debt, dangerous working conditions, and long hours to pay for the technology. Land, livelihood, and lives are lost in an effort to keep up and break even. There is more to this story that affects both the food we eat and our provisions for the future. Too many Americans eat the food on their plates with little thought to its origin and in blind faith that government regulations will protect them from danger. While many Americans might have grown up in farming families, there are fewer family-owned farms with each passing generation. Americans are becoming disconnected from understanding the sources and content of their food. The farmers interviewed in From the Farm to the Table can help reestablish that connection. Gary Holthaus illuminates the state of American agriculture today, particularly the impact of globalization, through the stories of farmers who balance traditional practices with innovative methods to meet market demands. Holthaus demonstrates how the vitality of America’s communities is bound to the successes and failures of its farmers. In From the Farm to the Table, farmers explain how their lives and communities have changed as they work to create healthy soil, healthy animals, and healthy food in a context of often inappropriate federal policy, growing competition from abroad, public misconceptions regarding government subsidies, the dangers of environmental damage and genetically modified crops, and the myths of modern economics. Rather than predicting doom and despair for small American growers, Holthaus shows their hope and the practical solutions they utilize. As these farmers tell their stories, “organic” and “sustainable” farming become real and meaningful. As they share their work and their lives, they reveal how those concepts affect the food we eat and the land on which it’s grown, and how vital farming is to the American economy.

Author : Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451166
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Harvest written by Marie Mutsuki Mockett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.

Author : Caroline S. Kelsohn
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590335000
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural America written by Caroline S. Kelsohn and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson once envisioned the United States as a 'nation of yeomen farmers'. Looking around today, however, illustrates that nothing could be further from the truth. In a globalised world and techno-centred society, urban sprawl is overtaking rural America. For over a century, farming was the backbone of the American economy, and though it is still critical to American productivity, many rural areas are plagued by poverty and job reduction. Agricultural issues have a hold over national politics (as in the debates over farm subsidies), but they cannot change several significant trends in America today: the movement toward fewer and larger farms, environmental pressures from urban and suburban interests, and changing food consumption patterns. In order to assist the remaining 'yeomen farmers', a comprehensive and integrated agricultural policy must be initiated to sustain the nation's farming communities. This book analyses the status of the farm industry in rural America, providing a historical context for agriculture and assessing its future for the nation. and the information provided in this book is necessary to understanding the nature of what has historically been a key component of American industry and life.

Author : Alan R. Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317497996
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civic Engagement in Food System Governance written by Alan R. Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 documents, interviews, and participant observations, and provides the first descriptive history of local food movement national policy achievements in the US, from 1976 to 2013, and in the UK, from 1991 to 2013, together with reviews of both the American and British local food movements. It provides a US-UK comparative context, significantly updating earlier comparisons of American, British and European farm and rural policies. The comparative perspective shows that, over time, more effective strategies for national policy change required social-movement building strategies, such as collaborative policy coalitions, capacity-building for smaller organizations, and policy entrepreneurship for joining together separate rural, farming, food, and health interests. In contrast, narrowly-defined single issue campaigns often undermined long-term policy change, even if short-term wins emerged. By profiling interviews of American and English movement leaders, policymakers, and funders, the book demonstrates that democratic participation in food policy is best supported when funders incentivize groups to work together and overcome their differences.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Activities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1O/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy and Economic Growth for Rural America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: