Family Farm

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 080321748X

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Family Farming by Anonim Pdf

Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial agribusiness takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economic reasons. But will they? This timely book exposes the biases in American farm policies that irrationally encourage expansion, biases evident in federal commodity programs, income tax provisions, and subsidized credit services. Family Farming also exposes internal conflicts, particularly the conflict between the private interests of individual farmers and the public interest in family farming as a whole. It challenges the assumption that bigger is better, critiques the technological basis of modern agriculture, and calls for farming practices that are ethical, economical, and ecologically sound. The alternative policies discussed in this book could yet save the family farm, and the ways and means of saving it are argued here with special urgency. ø This Bison Books edition includes a new introduction by the author providing a more national perspective, underscoring the repetitive cycles of American agriculture over the decade, and assessing the major policy issues that have dominated agriculture in recent years.

Author : Forrest Pritchard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Teresa Opheim
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609384531

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The Future of Family Farms by Teresa Opheim Pdf

A monumental transfer of farmland is occurring in the United States. The average American farmer is fifty-eight years old, and the 40 percent of farmland owners who lease their land to others are even older: sixty-six on average. Five times as many farmers are over sixty-five as are under thirty-five. What will happen to this land? Who will own it? What if one child wants to farm but can't afford to buy out the nonfarming siblings? What if keeping the farm in the family means foregoing the significant profits that could be earned from selling it? These sometimes painful and divisive questions confront many farmers and farmland owners today. How they answer them will shape their families and the land for generations to come. The Farm Legacy Letters project, developed by the member-driven nonprofit Practical Farmers of Iowa, is designed to help farmers and farmland owners think about their farm’s future and talk about it with their families. An essential complement to handbooks on business succession, this book gathers the letters and stories of midwestern families about the land they cherish—how they acquired it, what they treasure most about it, and their hopes for its future. Some of the writers descend from families who have owned a particular patch of the earth since the 1800s, while others became farmland owners more recently—one as recently as 2015. Some are no longer farmland owners at all, because—after careful thought about what mattered most to them—they sold their land to the next generation of farmers. All of these writers hope that, by sharing their farmland legacies, they will encourage others to ponder and then write about the histories, accomplishments, challenges, and hopes for their farmland for the generations who come after they are gone.

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 : Sarah K Mock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Family farms
ISBN : LOC:00141324561

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The Family Farm by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Family farms
ISBN : MINN:31951D00291094J

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Status of the Family Farm by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sue Headlee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313389160

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The Political Economy of the Family Farm by Sue Headlee Pdf

Agriculture played an important role in the transition to capitalism in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In her study, Sue Headlee argues that the family farm system, with its progressive nature and egalitarian class structure, revolutionized this transition to capitalism. The family farm is examined in light of its economic and political implications, showing the relationship between the family farm and fledgling industrial capitalism, a relationship that fostered the simultaneous industrial and agricultural revolutions and the creation of an agro-industrial complex. Headlee focuses on the adoption of the horse-drawn mechanical reaper (to harvest wheat) by family farmers in the 1850s. The neoclassical economic explanation, with its emphasis on the farm as a profit-maximizing firm, is criticized for its lack of recognition of the role of the family farm's egalitarian class structure. This look at the economic history of the United States has lessons for the Third World today: agricultural development is vital to the transition to capitalism; the agrarian class structures of Third World countries may be holding back that transition; and a family farm/land reform approach would lead to increases in productivity and in the material well-being of society. Headlee's analysis supports three important debates in political economy, thus providing the historical and theoretical context for understanding the role of agriculture in the transition to capitalism in general and in the particular case of the United States. Her findings conclude that agrarian class structures can explain the differential patterns of development in pre-industrial Europe. Further evidence is presented that the internal class structure of agrarian society is the crucial causal factor in the transition to capitalism and that market developments alone are not sufficient. Lastly and most controversially, Headlee acknowledges the importance of the Civil War in propelling the triumph of American capitalism, allowing the Republican Party (an alliance of family farmers and industrial capitalists) to take control of the state from the Democratic Party of the southern plantation owners. This book will be of interest to scholars in political economy, economic history, agrarian economics, and development economics.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Family farms
ISBN : IND:30000090849609

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The Family Farm by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit and Rural Electrification
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Agricultural credit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045097339

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Family Farm Entry Assistance Act by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit and Rural Electrification Pdf

Author : Eugenie Doyle
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.

Author : Donald J. Pisani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Family farms
ISBN : UCR:31210024743195

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Family Farm Development Act of 1980 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies Pdf

Author : Mary Neth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Richard A. Levins
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803299795

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Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm by Richard A. Levins Pdf

Willard Cochrane watched the dramatic decline in American family farming from a vantage point few can claim. He became one of the country's premier agricultural economists and carried the standard of liberalism for President Kennedy in the last serious fight to save the family farm. Then, for forty long years, he held to the principles while traditional agriculture faded into what he once called "family farms in form but not in spirit." This book is about the spirit of family farming: Thomas Jefferson's dream of an agrarian democracy. What should we do in the face of globalization, high technology, and corporate control of our food supply? Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm recounts how one man faced these issues and where he would wish us to go in the twenty-first century.