A Farm In The Family

Author : Forrest Pritchard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780762794386

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Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard Pdf

One fateful day in 1996, upon discovering that five freight cars’ worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard undertakes to save his family’s farm. What ensues—through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters—is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard’s biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his career choice and eschews organic foods for sugary mainstream fare; but just when the farm starts to turn heads at local markets, his father’s health takes a turn for the worse.With poetry and humor, this timely memoir tugs on the heartstrings and feeds the soul long after the last page is turned.

Author : Dan McKernan
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780310748137

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This Farm Is a Family by Dan McKernan Pdf

In this adorable illustrated picture book for kids written by Dan McKernan (Saved by the Barn), the rescue farm animals at Barn Sanctuary decide to help a cow who is dealing with fear and anxiety in her new home. Children will learn the importance of friendship and compassion, as well as why it’s important to support others during hard times. Inside this book, kids ages 4-8 will discover: A positive message about friendship, kindness, and understanding others How to show compassion to others Ways of coping with difficult situations, including how to deal with fear and anxiety A page with information on Barn Sanctuary and their rescue efforts, with information on ways you can support the real-life animals featured in the book This Farm Is a Family follows a group of rescued farm animals who are living their best lives at Barn Sanctuary. Each one is eager to meet the newest arrival, Buttercup the cow, and show her all the fun things they can do together. But Buttercup doesn’t want to play--in fact, she doesn’t want anything to do with the other animals. So with a lot of love and understanding, the animals work together to help Buttercup discover she’s part of a new family and can leave her old fears behind. This Farm Is a Family is perfect for: Birthdays, Christmas, and Easter or Passover gifts, as well as back to school reading Children ages 4-8 who love farm animals and cuddly creatures Teaching young readers kindness and compassion, and that they can make a difference in the world Kids who are in a new school, new neighborhood, or new house

Author : Jenny Barker Devine
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609381493

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On Behalf of the Family Farm by Jenny Barker Devine Pdf

On Behalf of the Family Farm traces the development of women’s activism and agrarian feminisms in the Midwest after 1945, as farm women’s lives were being transformed by the realities of modern agriculture. Author Jenny Barker Devine demonstrates that in an era when technology, depopulation, and rapid economic change dramatically altered rural life, midwestern women met these challenges with their own feminine vision of farm life. Their “agrarian feminisms” offered an alternative to, but not necessarily a rejection of, second-wave feminism. Focusing on women in four national farm organizations in Iowa—the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union, the National Farm Organization, and the Porkettes—Devine highlights specific moments in time when farm women had to reassess their roles and strategies for preserving and improving their way of life. Rather than retreat from the male-dominated world of agribusiness and mechanized production, postwar women increasingly asserted their identities as agricultural producers and demanded access to public spaces typically reserved for men. Over the course of several decades, they developed agrarian feminisms that combined cherished rural traditions with female empowerment, cooperation, and collaboration. Iowa farm women emphasized working partnerships between husbands and wives, women’s work in agricultural production, and women’s unique ways of understanding large-scale conventional farming.

Author : Ian Ross Blackman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Estate planning
ISBN : 0473200201

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Keeping Farming in the Family by Ian Ross Blackman Pdf

Written for farmers to help with creating a succession plan.

Author : Mary Neth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801848989

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Preserving the Family Farm by Mary Neth Pdf

Between 1900 and 1940 American family farming gave way to what came to be called agribusiness. Government policies, consumer goods aimed at rural markets, and the increasing consolidation of agricultural industries all combined to bring about changes in farming strategies that had been in use since the frontier era. Because the Midwestern farm economy played an important part in the relations of family and community, new approaches to farm production meant new patterns in interpersonal relations as well. In Preserving the Family Farm Mary Neth focuses on these relations--of gender and community--to shed new light on the events of this crucial period. (source: 4e de couverture).

Author : Sarah K Mock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636768202

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Farm (and Other F Words) by Sarah K Mock Pdf

We love The American Farmer. We trust them to grow our food, to be part of children's nursery rhymes, to provide the economic backbone of rural communities, and to embody a version of the American dream. At the same time, we know that "corporate farms" are disrupting the agrarian way of life that we so admire, and that we've got to do something to stop it. So what's our plan for saving the farms we love? In Farm (and Other F Words), Sarah K Mock dismantles misconceptions about American farms and discovers what makes small family farms work, or why they don't. While exploring the intersection of farming and wealth, Mock offers an alternative perspective on American agricultural history, and outlines a path to a more equitable food system moving forward. Calling for change, Farm (and Other F Words) tackles questions like: Do farmers really get paid not to farm? Are "big corporate farms" the future? How much good has the food movement done for small family farmers? Ultimately, Mock suggests a solution without putting the onus for change on struggling consumers and reminds us that, "the future of American agriculture is not yet decided."

Author : Rachel Elliot
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0764168886

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Farm Families by Rachel Elliot Pdf

Invites readers to pull and push tabs to discover which babies belong to each animal.

Author : Robert L. Switzer,Frank Edward Barmore
Publisher : Center for American Places
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Dairy farms
ISBN : 1935195344

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A Family Farm by Robert L. Switzer,Frank Edward Barmore Pdf

Switzer's memoir covers four generations of life on the family farm in Illinois. The tale is enhanced with photographs plus watercolors and woodblock prints by the author's wife and son. Frank E. Barmore adds information about the nineteenth-century history of this family farm, the Barmore family, and the settling of that area of Illinois.

Author : Ingolf Vogeler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000303704

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The Myth Of The Family Farm by Ingolf Vogeler Pdf

The ideal of the family farm has been used to justify a myriad of federal farm legislation. Land grants, the distribution of irrigation water, land-grant college research and services, farm programs, and tax laws all have been affected. Yet, asserts the author, federal legislation and practices have had an institutional bias toward large-scale farms and agribusiness and have hastened the demise of family farms. Dr. Vogeler examines the struggle between land interests in the private and public sectors and finds that the myth of the family farm has been used to obscure the dominance of agribusiness and that the corporate penetration of agriculture has in turn contributed to the plight of migrant workers, the decline of small towns, and the economic difficulties of independent farmers. Dr. Vogeler also identifies the major shortcomings of agribusiness and federal land-related laws and programs; examines the regional impact of agribusiness and federal farm programs on rural areas; and considers the role of racial minorities and women in the development of agrarian capitalism. In conclusion, he offers a structural analysis that provides the means for progressive social change and states that the achievement of economic equality in rural America and the dismantling of the corporate control of agriculture can be realized through farmer-labor alliances.

Author : Donald J. Pisani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520326477

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From the Family Farm to Agribusiness by Donald J. Pisani Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Dairy farming
ISBN : 9780395699362

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Portrait of a Farm Family by Raymond Bial Pdf

Presents a fourth-generation farm family in Illinois, describing their work and other activities, and explaining why it's becoming increasingly hard for a family farm to survive.

Author : John Connell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781328578006

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The Farmer's Son by John Connell Pdf

For fans of The Shepherd’s Life, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son’s return home to his family’s farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day—cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. Alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when an argument between father and son erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid. The Farmer’s Son is the story of a calving season, and the story of a man who emerges from depression to find hope in the place he least expected to find it. It is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, and of his relationship with the community of County Longford, with his faith, with the animals he tends, and, above all, with his father.

Author : Ted Genoways
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780393292589

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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm by Ted Genoways Pdf

Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2019 selection for the One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa state reading programs "Genoways gives the reader a kitchen-table view of the vagaries, complexities, and frustrations of modern farming…Insightful and empathetic." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their family farm—and their entire way of life—are under siege on many fronts, from shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to climate change. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations. He creates a vivid, nuanced portrait of a radical new landscape and one family’s fight to preserve their legacy and the life they love.

Author : Elaine Froese,Megan McKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Communication in families
ISBN : 097369842X

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Farming's In-Law Factor by Elaine Froese,Megan McKenzie Pdf

Author : Eugenie Doyle
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452153353

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Sleep Tight Farm by Eugenie Doyle Pdf

It is December, and there are many things for the family to do around the farm to get it ready for winter.