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American agriculture : from farm families to agribusiness / by Wetherington, Mark V.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-213) and index.Beginnings -- Crop Regions -- Market Revolutions -- Civil War and Reconstructions -- Home on the Range? -- Two World Wars and the Great Depression -- Get Big or Get Out -- The Future: What Kind of Agriculture Do You Want?"Written from the perspective of ordinary people, this book traces the history of agriculture in the United States from early colonists until today. The first concise history of American agriculture in 25 years, the author focuses attention on recent developments such as the decline of tobacco, green revolution, farm-to-table, and food security"--
Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture;
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American Agriculture : From Farm Families to Agribusiness. by Wetherington, Mark V.;
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Beginnings -- 2: Crop Regions -- 3: Market Revolutions -- 4: Civil War and Reconstructions -- 5: Home on the Range? -- 6: Two World Wars and the Great Depression -- 7: Get Big or Get Out -- 8: The Future: What Kind of Agriculture Do You Want? -- Sources -- Index.Written from the perspective of ordinary people, this book traces the history of agriculture in the United States from early colonists until today. The first concise history of American agriculture in 25 years, the author focuses attention on recent developments such as the decline of tobacco, green revolution, farm-to-table, and food security.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History.;
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6522679 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Farming and the fate of wild nature : essays in conservation-based agriculture / by Imhoff, Dan.; Baumgartner, Jo Ann.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-232) and index.
Subjects: Agricultural ecology.; Sustainable agriculture.;
© c2006., Watershed Media,
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Agricultural fairs in America : tradition, education, celebration / by Avery, Julie A.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-103).
Subjects: Fairs; Agricultural exhibitions;
© c2000., Michigan State University,
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The good food revolution : growing healthy food, people, and communities / by Allen, Will,1949-; Wilson, Charles,1974-;
Includes bibliographical references.Escape -- Return -- Promises -- Trial by fire -- pt. 1 Roots -- Black flight -- Beginning -- A snorting terror of rippling muscle -- Guess who's coming to dinner -- Back to earth -- pt. 2 Sweat equity -- Black gold -- A little Hope, a lot of Will -- Homecomings -- pt. 3 The revolution -- Overnight success -- New frontiers -- The dream.Describes the author's early experiences as a sharecropper's son and a KFC executive before building a preeminent urban farm to feed, educate, and employ thousands of at-risk youths.
Subjects: Food supply; Alternative agriculture.; Sustainable agriculture.; Community gardens.; Urban agriculture;
© 2013, c2012., Gotham Books,
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Organic gardening for the 21st century / by Fedor, John.; Reader's Digest Association.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Gardening organically -- Soil & compost -- Planning the organic garden -- Working the organic garden -- Directory of vegetables, fruits, & herbs.Defines organic gardening and explains its advantages, discusses soil and composting, provides plans for the garden, and includes a directory of vegetables, fruits, and herbs.
Subjects: Organic gardening.; Gardening.; Organic Agriculture.;
© ©2001., Reader's Digest,
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Farm to table : the essential guide to sustainable food systems for students, professionals, and consumers / by Benjamin, Darryl,1954-; Virkler, Lyndon,1952-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. I. Farm -- 1. The environmental costs of industrial agriculture -- The Green Revolution -- The Farm Bill -- Industrial agriculture operations today -- Monocultures : crops and CAFOs -- Climate change -- 2. The human costs of industrial agriculture -- Effects of air pollution on workers and communities -- Water security -- Food security -- Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) -- Economic impact on farmers -- The plight of food and farm workers -- Who benefits? -- 3. Beyond monoculture : crops -- Threats to biocultural heritage -- Responding to monoculture's threat to food security -- Farming alternatives to monoculture -- Putting it all together -- 4. Beyond CAFOs: livestock, dairy, and poultry production -- Alternatives to CAFOs -- Technology that works -- Right-sized slaughterhouses and food production facilities -- 5. The future of farming -- Food movements -- Growing new farmers -- Locavore movement -- Farm size and specialization -- Bringing farmers and chefs together -- pt. II. Table -- 6. Farm-to-restaurant -- What is a farm-to-table restaurant? -- Challenges facing farm-to-table restaurants -- 7. Purchasing within a farm-to-table system -- Defining sustainable and local purchasing -- Barriers to sustainable and local purchasing -- Options for purchasing farm-to-table -- Purchasing guide by category of product -- Transitioning to farm-to-table purchasing -- 8. Green restaurant practices -- Green restaurant certification -- Water efficiency -- Waste reduction and recycling -- Sustainable durable goods and building materials -- Sustainable food -- Energy efficiency -- Chemical and pollution reduction -- Greenwashing -- 9. Farm-to-school : primary and secondary school foodservice programs -- Challenges facing school foodservice programs -- Farm-to-school : what it is and what it does -- The three Cs of farm-to-school -- Growth of farm-to-school -- Challenges facing farm-to-school -- Marketing farm-to-school -- 10. Farm-to-institution : business and industry, college, and healthcare food service -- Connecting institutions to sustainable purchasing -- Issues, challenges, and successes of sectors in farm-to-institution -- 11. Marketing farm-to-table to the public and to your staff -- Niche marketing -- The seven Ps of farm-to-table marketing."In Farm to Table, Darryl Benjamin and Chef Lyndon Virkler explore both the roots of our current, corporate food system malaise, and the response by small farmers, food co-ops, chefs and restaurateurs, institutions, and many more, to replace the status quo with something more healthy, fair, just, and delicious. Today's consumers are demanding increased accountability from food growers and purveyors. Farm to Table illuminates the best practices and strategies for schools, restaurants, healthcare facilities, and other businesses and institutions, to partner with local farmers and food producers, from purchasing to marketing. Readers will also learn about the various alternative techniques that farms are employing - from permaculture to rotation-intensive grazing - to produce better tasting and more nutritious food, restore environmental health, and meet consumer demand. A one-of-a-kind resource, Farm to Table shows how to integrate truly sustainable principles into every juncture of our evolving food system."--Back cover.
Subjects: Sustainable agriculture.; Food service.;
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History of agriculture in the northern United States, 1620-1860 / by Bidwell, Percy Wells,1888-; Falconer, John Ironside,b. 1888.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 454-492) and index.PART I: AGRICULTURE IN THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS: Field husbandry -- Livestock -- Farm labor, equipment and land -- Trade in agricultural products -- Land tenure -- PART II: RURAL ECONOMY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Pioneering in the Eighteenth Century -- Farming in the older settlements: crops and tillage -- Grazing and livestock -- Farm management and household economy -- Agricultural trade -- PART III: EXPANSION AND PROGRESS: 1800-1840: Pioneering west of the Alleghanies -- Pioneer farming in the West: economic conditions -- Development of internal trade and the beginnings of commercial agriculture in the West -- Organization and education of farmers -- Foreign trade and the home market -- Farm labor and labor-saving machinery -- Livestock: improvement and specialization -- Crops and tillage -- Transition from self-sufficient economy to commercial agriculture: its difficulties, its significance -- PART IV: PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION, 1840-1860: Northern agriculture in 1840 -- Influence of the prairies on the progress of agriculture -- Agricultural labor and population -- Agricultural machinery -- Transportation and markets --Diffusion of information -- Wheat -- Corn -- The minor cereals -- Flax and hemp -- Hay -- Potatoes and roots -- Fruits and minor crops -- Beef production -- Sheep -- Dairying -- Swine -- Poultry -- Horses and mules -- Northern agriculture in 1860: a summary.
Subjects: Agriculture;
© 1941., P. Smith,
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The lean farm : how to minimize waste, increase efficiency, and maximize value and profits with less work / by Hartman, Ben,1978-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226) and index.Every tool in its place -- Farming for your customers -- Learning to see value -- Ten types of farm waste -- Flow I: tools to root out farm production waste -- Flow II: tools to root out farm management waste -- Lean farm sales: pull, not push -- Continuous improvement (Kaizen) -- Respect for people: lean and farm staff -- Lean applied at Clay Bottom Farm: ten specific cases -- The lean farm start-up -- The limits of lean in agriculture -- Lean for more than profit.Lean principles were originally developed by the Japanese automotive industry, but Hartman has applied them to farming. As a result, he's been able to drastically cut waste, increase profit, and make his family farm more environmentally and economically sustainable. With ample examples from his one-acre farm in Indiana, Hartman illustrates how to incorporate lean practices, on farms of any size or scale, at each step of the production chain, from starting a farming operation and harvesting crops to training employees and selling goods. Hartman's approach of working smarter, not harder, aims to prevent the kind of burnout that start-up farmers often encounter and enable a new generation of young people to choose farming as a viable career path--COVER.
Subjects: Agriculture; Lean manufacturing.;
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Food and climate change without the hot air : change your diet : the easiest way to help save the planet / by Bridle, S. L.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Breakfast -- Lunch -- Snacks -- Evening meal -- Looking ahead/A quarter of our carbon emissions comes from food. This accessible description of how food and climate change are connected, inspired by the author's former mentor David MacKay (Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air), steers clear of emotive words to focus on facts. From breakfast to lunch, snacks to supper, Professor Bridle outlines the climate impact of the food we eat, how food production contributes to climate change and how climate change impacts food production.
Subjects: Climate change mitigation.; Food.; Agricultural industries;
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