American farming has driven American life and fed much of the world for three centuries. Often in the words of farmers themselves, here is the story of what grows where and why, of America's primary farming regions east of the Rockies. What was it like "Back then" to be a farmer? What of the plight of the family farm, what of government programs? What shape will American farming take in the next century? This is a fully informed survey of our number-one industry by one of America's premier geographers.
American farming has driven American life and fed much of the world for three centuries. Often in the words of farmers themselves, here is the story o...
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...
Few Americans know much about contemporary farming, which has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. In The Changing Scale of American Agr...
