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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 52–76.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Ruisheng Zhang Abstract The China–United States Agricultural Mission from 1946 to 1948 was the first cooperative project on agricultural technology and trade organized by the governments of the Republic of China and the United States. The mission committee comprised delegates from the United States...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 444–452.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Congress, where power shifted from southern committee chairs toward party caucuses and leaders. New coalitions found openings and opportunities to advance programs and to exchange strategic support. While the fundamental directions of policy, research, and extension may never have shifted radically...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 78–96.
Published: 01 January 2008
... and Marcus "Al" Murphy and their interactions with the sharecroppers. Cook, an affluent Jewish woman, and Murphy, an African-American member of the Communist Party, both participated in the St. Louis Committee for the Rehabilitation of the Sharecroppers. After state officials removed the demonstrators from...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 481–490.
Published: 01 August 2024
... that these influence structures might offer a viable pathway forward for a reorientation of farm policy. Focusing on congressional committee jurisdiction and executive branch implementation of policies, the essay provides examples of how power cluster interests groups have used both pathways to expand the range...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 104–131.
Published: 01 January 2021
... suasion. They formed the FIC to counter the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which they labeled as communist. After the FIC disbanded in 1936, some of its leaders tried to carry on its goals by forming a secret central committee for the nation’s conservative groups. Stanley Morse initiated the effort...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 421–438.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., they "delineated" the boundaries of rural neighborhoods and communities so that the best representation of citizens on the local planning committees was obtained. With local citizen-researchers, Taylor’s sociologists delineated eleven thousand rural neighborhoods and nearly two thousand communities in thirty-two...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 46–73.
Published: 01 January 2010
... opportunities for cooperation on a strictly regional albeit transnational basis that pitted bio-geopolitical spaces against each other. This article retraces the formation of these spaces by analyzing the deliberations of committees and congresses that gathered to define an international agricultural order...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 352–365.
Published: 01 April 2000
.... This interest was acknowledged by Farm Foundation / 357 the Franklin Roosevelt Administration; Henry C. Taylor was chosen to serve on the President's Special Committee on Farm Tenancy in 1937 and on the President's Advisory Committee on Education in 1938. Under Taylor, the Farm Foundation investigated...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 227–240.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Olaf F. Larson; Julie N. Zimmerman Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 [Footnotes] 1 Office of the Secretary , "Report of the Committee Appointed by the Secretary of Agricul¬ ture to Consider the Subject of Farm Life Studies as One of the Divisions of Research...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 281–297.
Published: 01 July 2005
... Kid’: Farm Parents’ Attitudes and Practices Regarding the Employ¬ ment, Training and Supervision of Their Children," Journal of Rural Health18 ( Winter 2002 ): 57 ^66 2 National Child Labor Committee , Rural Child Welfare (New York: Macmillan, 1922 ), 53 " Statement of Beatrice...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2024
... calculate how much surplus grain the household had—and thus how much the state could claim for redistribution. The grain monopoly decree of March 25 declared all surplus was to be deposited with local food committees for a fixed price. 18 Grain registration had its origins in late tsarist-era efforts...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 258–271.
Published: 01 April 2000
... , The New Revolution in the Cotton Economy: Mechanization and Its Consequences (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957 ), 77 -82 Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture , Cotton , 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944 , 441 -47 [hereafter cited as the Pace Com¬ mittee] James...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (1): 132–171.
Published: 01 January 2021
... Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008), 15. For the record of the hearings, see International Protection of Human Rights: The Work of International Organizations and the Role of U.S. Foreign Policy; Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements of the Committee...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 245–272.
Published: 01 May 2023
... looming offshore. The contrast between the strength of American industrial power and the weakness of the Bolshevik regime was stark. What is more, American interest in cornering the Russian market preceded news of the famine. In January 1921, the Committee on Foreign Affairs discussed...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (1): 36–69.
Published: 01 January 2007
... in the American Southwest (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1999 ), 52 -68. 6 C. H. Southworth , " The History of Irrigation along the Gila River ," in Hearings Before the Committee on Indian Affairs on the Condition of Various Tribes of Indians: Appendixes , House...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 448–462.
Published: 01 April 2002
... the Bureau of Reclamation to level land, after agreeing to it in committee. The next year, the Department of the Interior made one last effort to establish in law its authority to level farmland, including it in a point-of-order or housekeeping bill, which did pass Congress. But USDA successfully appealed...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (4): 412–438.
Published: 01 October 2005
...-organizational coordination. Such cooperation was vital, since as late as 1940, many of the farm safety awareness activities were being performed by isolated state or local organizations. The members of the NSC's farm committee recognized the "coordinating" role of their organization, which included enlisting...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (3): 604.
Published: 01 July 2002
...; Susan Sessions Rugh; Richard Wunderli; Valerie Grim; Robert Outland III; James Fickle; and David Danbom. I am also grateful for the work of the prize committees. The Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award Committee was composed of Peter Coclanis, chair, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Pamela...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (3): 346.
Published: 01 July 2001
... Hodges; Mary Hansen; Hal Barron; Edward Countryman; Woody Holton; and Peter Wallenstein. I am also grateful for the work of the prize committees. The Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award Committee was composed of Lou Ferleger, Chair, Boston University, Peter Coclanis, University of North CarolinaChapel...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (3): 523.
Published: 01 July 2003
... Friley; William Pratt; Michael Dougan; Peter Coclanis; Steve Collins; Donald J. Pisani; Richard Judd; Tom Brookings; Brian Q. Cannon; Alan I Marcus; and Mark Finlay. I am also grateful for the work of the prize committees. The Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award Committee was composed of Pamela...