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Published: 01 February 2023
figure 5. Peter Darby discusses potential new hop releases with aphid resistance with American visitors Bill Rowley and Lawrence Hatter. Photo by the author, 2019. More
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 6. FFA student passes the hat among four thousand farmers gathered at the Sioux City (Iowa) Municipal Auditorium to discuss their concerns regarding the 1985 farm bill. Reprinted courtesy of the Sioux City Journal . Photo by Ed Porter. More
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 313–330.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of that understanding that has tracked the evolution of farming itself and led to some ambiguity in the concept that can complicate public policy discussions. This article explores the public policy definitions that reflect changing understandings of what is a family farm and how it is associated with the idea...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 389–412.
Published: 01 October 2004
... including some from the Pacific Coast states and Massachusetts and has in excess of 220,000 person-observations. The paper discusses a number of problems and complications associated with the creation of this retrospective panel database. It also shows how these data may be linked to other computer...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 437–445.
Published: 01 October 2009
... of which stories to tell publicly and which to keep private. The author discusses her own experience telling stories about rural women in the 1970s and the need to give voice to the heritage of rural women, especially of groups that have feared revealing their experiences. She offers examples of historians...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 608–635.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... With the Great Depression came new discussions about the relationship between food health and poverty. Providing healthy food for those most in need became a question of poor relief and social equity. Bread became one of the central food commodities in these discussions because bread carried both material...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 407–439.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Barbara Hahn; Tiago Saraiva; Paul W. Rhode; Peter Coclanis; Claire Strom Abstract Drawn from a plenary discussion at the 2013 Agricultural History Society's annual meeting in Banff, five scholars examine the relationships of specific crops to their surrounding cultures. The question “does crop...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 195–203.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract Mentoring graduate students is a far different task than teaching undergraduates, involving a different set of skills and a high level of long-term commitment. This article discusses a number of principles important to the task of mentoring, from choosing one's...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Laura R. Kolar Abstract In May 1962 leaders from a variety of federal agencies and independent organizations gathered to “exchange ideas about the future course of American conservation policy.” Central to the agenda discussed were certain Kennedy administration agricultural conservation programs...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 68–90.
Published: 01 April 2012
... poor farmers and the impulse to closely supervise and monitor them. This treatment contributes to the discussion of modernism during the late rural New Deal. © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Notes 1. Arthur F. Raper , Tenants of the Almighty ( New York : Macmillan...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 235–255.
Published: 01 October 2012
... previously untranslated Chinese sources, this paper traces the development of beekeeping in China from the second century up until shortly before modern beekeeping methods were introduced to China at the turn of the twentieth century. It discusses the nature of the source material, before exploring...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 224–245.
Published: 01 April 2013
... wine merchant as the embodiment of this dislocation. In doing so, the “artificial wine question,” the single-most important debate to emerge from the trade's crisis, was explicitly connected to the by-then mainstreamed “Jewish question.” Consequently, discussions of “natural” and “artificial...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (1): 57–71.
Published: 01 January 2013
... as an example of the free white democracy's values. The article concludes with a brief discussion of ways these symbols can be used in the classroom and by scholars to examine broader themes, including a comparison to the commemorative state quarters issued at the turn of the millennium. © the Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 3–17.
Published: 01 January 2014
... these communities in the wake of the farm crisis in the early 1990s. For a multitude of reasons, the long-term experiences of the communities often bore very little relation to the predictions made in the 1940s. This article discusses a planned project to re-examine one of these small places, Irwin, Iowa, in order...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (4): 473–501.
Published: 01 October 2013
... systems was representative neither of British agricultural production in the 1960s nor of the established concerns about “factory farming” already being discussed in the countryside at that time. © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 NOTES 1. Thanks to Paul Brassley, Margaret Derry...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 512–540.
Published: 01 October 2018
... to the center of national policy discussions. Following this crisis, farmers called for the national government to make agricultural loans. Farmers’ advocacy—which was often channeled through their voluntary membership organizations—both compelled legislative action on agricultural credit and ensured...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 443–463.
Published: 01 October 2007
... by legislatures, courts, or even constitutions. They also promoted a new discussion of how values within the United States differed from those in Europe--where land was scarce and served as the foundation for aristocratic regimes and sharp class differences. The squatter was a ubiquitous figure on every frontier...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2004
... of the agricultural practices adopted by the country’s first canegrowers, noting a lack of careful cultivation and plowing, fertilizer use, drainage, and paddock design. Various reasons for the use of these "inadequate techniques" are discussed in this essay, with the conclusion being offered that the most important...
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 131–139.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Cameron L. Saffell Abstract In an introduction to papers from the 2003 Agricultural History Society (AHS) symposium, the author discusses the need for international exchange and contributions to the scholarship of a cross-border region that some scholars call the "Greater Southwest." Monographs...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 386–412.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Peter B. Lavelle Abstract In the second half of the nineteenth century, China experienced agricultural and ecological crises of increasing frequency and severity. This article shows how these crises fostered discussion among Chinese elites about the value of steam-powered machines for agricultural...