1-20 of 282 Search Results for

cash

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 January 2010
... ’correct’ view. "The wicked problem construct is applied to four core ideas in the history of agricultural development—small farms, cash crops, agrarian ideals, and international development—to demonstrate the potential for using this concept to approach complex problems of historical interpretation...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 587–608.
Published: 01 July 2000
... Dauer, "The Hinterland Commercial System" Lemon, The Best Poor Man s Country, 118–49 Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 "Cash for his turnups": Agricultural Production for Local Markets Pennsylvania, 1725-1783 in Colonial MICHAEL V. KENNEDY Before Philip Rogers sold four...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Ian J. Jesse Abstract Canada experienced a surge of fur farming during the first half of the twentieth century to meet the demands of fashion. The practice was promoted as a relatively easy way in which rural people could earn great income. In the province of New Brunswick, where cash-earning...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 283–322.
Published: 01 July 2009
... the rising cost of agrochemicals compelled Maya to return to plantation labor in the 1970s, synthetic fertilizers simply shifted, rather than alleviated, Mayan dependency on the cash economy. By highlighting Mayan farmers’ historical narratives and delineating the relationship between agricultural science...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 225–251.
Published: 01 April 2011
... the significance of differences between the credit-dependent sharecropping system prevalent in cotton regions and the cash wages paid to sugar workers—distinctions that have often been intentionally blurred in recent historiography. © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 NOTES 1. While taking...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 437–459.
Published: 01 October 2011
... of or afford in the cash-strapped early days of the century. © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 NOTES 1. Anon. , “Troop Doings Everywhere,” Farm Boy Cavalier News ( Jan. 1918 ): 6 . 2. David B. Danbom , Born in the Country: A History of Rural America ( Baltimore...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 488–512.
Published: 01 October 2017
... agricultural innovations—especially those that required substantial cash outlays—were kept at arm’s length because of the outcome’s uncertainty, which could harm the survival strategies of smallholding peasants. Tis article elaborates on the spread of two innovative fertilizer improvements—animal urine...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 215–244.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the twentieth century, the rise of wage labor and increased access to cash facilitated the shift from a diet comprised primarily of traditional food produced by Hopi farmers to one dependent on food purchased in grocery stores or acquired through food aid programs, contributing to high rates of obesity...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 136–161.
Published: 01 April 2000
... these com? modity programs, classifying these reform efforts and evaluating their effectiveness. We conclude that the one policy reform strategy most acceptable to farmers during this period was the replacement of market-distorting commodity loan programs with somewhat less distorting cash payments. We end...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 419–420.
Published: 01 July 2007
... and Stockholders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farm ing in Southeast Asia iswritten and edited by agricultural historians. Its overview notes that the fourmost common approaches in agricultural his tory studies are macroeconomic, cash crop, stages, and farming systems approaches. The macroeconomic approach...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 418–419.
Published: 01 July 2007
... by agricultural historians. Its overview notes that the fourmost common approaches in agricultural his tory studies are macroeconomic, cash crop, stages, and farming systems approaches. The macroeconomic approach places the agricultural sector in the context of the larger economy. Cash crop approaches stress...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2013) 87 (3): 391–415.
Published: 01 July 2013
... to one another on occasion and, like large loans, these were always repaid and always in cash. Unlike large loans, however, correspondents were flexible in terms of the timing of repayment. It appears a borrower could repay a small loan at his or her convenience. See, July 15 , 17 , 1858 , vol. 16...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 352–354.
Published: 01 July 2001
... are absolutely unmoved by the economic and fi? nancial trauma the 1996 farm bill has visited upon farmers and on rural communities even with the generous cash infusions in 1998, 1999 and 2000 that rivaled (and receded in 2000) the amount of government payments in earlier years which the authors lambaste...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 354–356.
Published: 01 July 2001
.... The wheels fell off that wagon at the first turn, with low prices in 1998. Even though the Congress voted, by a narrow margin, to enact the 1996 farm bill, by an even larger margin the Congress has cheerfully provided massive cash infusions since, in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Perhaps to save face, Congress has...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2007) 81 (2): 272–274.
Published: 01 April 2007
... of additional households. Peasants now entered the credit markets, frequently for the purpose of "financing" their inheritance through cash payments to siblings compelled to yield their share of the patrimony (179). Survival was predicated on ownership or the ability to negotiate cooperative arrangements...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 417–437.
Published: 01 October 2004
... of the communities ranged from the simplest type in which there was little or no barter and exchange and where cash was obtained only by the sale of labor, to the [most highly evolved] mountain community where agriculture was developed into something of a specialty." Some families worked together to sell their labor...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2002) 76 (1): 58–81.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of cash instead of credit and the increase in the number of wage laborers. A switch from book debt to cash was part of an upward spiral of rural consumerism that redirected commerce from farm villages like Fountain Green to regional market towns like Keokuk, Iowa. Stores in the larger towns carried...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 498–499.
Published: 01 October 2001
... of scientific progress?one equating success with cash crops, farm machinery, artificial breeding, pesticides, and manufactured fertilizers. Alternatives have emerged mainly during times of crisis. The devastating Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the energy shortage of the early 1970s, and the agricultural depression...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2006) 80 (1): 109–110.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of subordinate villagers, who were required to render unpaid labor, field produce, and sometimes cash, to powerful landlords. Whereas most aristocratic estate archives in the territories of the former German Democratic Republic were destroyed, the extensive Stavenow records amazingly survived. A virtue...
Journal Article
Agricultural History (2019) 93 (2): 371–372.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... They took their time, preferring to use their authority as a bargaining tool for leveraging federal favors from competing factions in Washington. Given New Mexico s limited potential for large-scale commercial agriculture and its isolation from distant cash markets, southern chattel 372 Agricultural History...