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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 531–552.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Wayne Anderson Abstract The 1980s Farm Crisis began receiving national attention in the middle of the decade in large part because of Hollywood films such as Country and the star-studded Farm Aid concert. However, religious leaders and organizations had already started to warn of an impending...
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Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 2. Projected farm bill spending. Congressional Research Service, “Farm Bill Primer: What Is the Farm Bill?,” updated February 22, 2023, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12047 .
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 164–186.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., but the Victory Farm Volunteers, a program of the federal US Crop Corps, have been largely overlooked, despite the numbers of urban youth who participated. This study examines the program as it was carried out in the states of the Great Plains, particularly its relationship to 4-H and its impact on farm...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 433–435.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Joan M. Jensen Farm Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their Neighbors . Frank Smoot . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews government's agricultural and industrial policies from 1940 onward. In es sence,Wright concluded that theMexican...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 308–310.
Published: 01 April 2020
... solidly formed by historical analysis. James Patterson Independent Scholar The Fault Lines of Farm Policy: A Legislative and Political History of the Farm Bill. By Jonathan Coppess. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 522 pp., $65.00, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4962-0512-4. The farm bill, as compared...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 465–474.
Published: 01 April 2000
... History27 (Spring1994): 563 -77 Katherine
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, Entitled To Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 ) Frances M.
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, "Women, Work, and Transformations in Agricultural Production," Canadian Review of Sociology...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (4): 437–459.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract In the early years of the twentieth century, rural America faced a population crisis as young people increasingly left farms for cities. Progressive reformers responded to this crisis with various suggestions meant to more firmly attach youngsters to their rural roots...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 January 2012
... retained an agrarian foundation, such as on-farm recreation, would solve multiple societal problems, including rural poverty, the disappearance of the small farm, agricultural surplus, lack of outdoor recreational space for urban and suburban Americans, and urban blight. This article explains how and why...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 731–733.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Wendy Mitchinson And on That Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900–1970 . Monda Halpern . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 731 quickly recovered from about 8,000 in 1919 to a peak of 25,000 by 1921. Unfortunately, the AWIU went...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 156–157.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Barbara Steinson On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945 . By Jenny Barker Devine . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2013 . 201 pp., $19.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-149-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Katherine Jellison Abstract During World War II, the United States needed to raise a sufficient military force while at the same time maintaining a sizeable farm labor force to meet increased wartime production goals. At a time when the word farmer was emphatically gendered male, and many farming...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 650–652.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Anne Effland [email protected] American Agriculture: From Farm Families to Agribusiness . By Mark Wetherington . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2021 . 240 pp., $38.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781442269279 . Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 512–530.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract The Farm Crisis of the 1980s was not just an economic crisis, but an identity crisis for the two-thirds of Iowa farm families that risked losing their livelihoods. Confronted with a situation that was well outside of their control, they sent thousands of letters...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 319–323.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Plant Biotechnology, 1492–2000 . 2nd ed. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2004 . Romero Adam M. “ ‘From Oil Well to Farm’: Industrial Waste, Shell Oil, and the Petrochemical Turn (1927–1947) .” Agricultural History 90 , no. 1 ( 2016 ): 70 – 93 . 2. Romero, “‘From...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 487–511.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Rebecca Shimoni-Stoil Abstract In 1985 Oscar Lorick—an aging and illiterate Black farmer clinging to seventy-nine acres of land and burdened with massive debts—turned to local farm activist Tommy Kersey to help stave off foreclosure. The ensuing mobilization tied together the NAACP, Black church...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (4): 580–593.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Cheryl Tevis Abstract In 1979 the author of this article was hired to write for Successful Farming , a national magazine founded in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1902. This led to a privileged, front-row-seat perspective on the lead-up to the 1980s Farm Crisis, the depth of the financial turmoil, and its...
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in False Gospels of Efficiency: Contested Knowledge, Determined Experts, and Unfaithful Lands in Rural Utah
> Agricultural History
Published: 01 August 2022
figure 2. Map of Skeen and Skeen Farm Water Distribution System for District No. 1. Reprinted from bulletin 193, Cache County Water Conservation District No. 1 (Logan: Utah State Agricultural College, 1925).
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 2. Auctioneer taking machinery bids at the Orville Luedtke farm auction in Lucas County, Iowa, in 1984. Luedtke (plaid shirt) stands in the background. Farmers traveled from the five surrounding states to support Luedtke. Used with permission from Successful Farming , ©1984. Photography
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 3. Auctioneer continues the difficult bidding at the penny farm auction of Orville Luedtke, seated to the right. Farmers supported Luedtke by limiting their bids, preventing lenders from regaining the full amount of borrowed funds. Used with permission from Successful Farming , ©1984
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 4. Media coverage as Orville Luedtke reads a statement at his farm auction in 1984 in Lucas County, Iowa. The auction was held to satisfy an agreement that Luedtke worked out with creditors. Used with permission from Successful Farming , ©1984. Photography by Glenn Kohler, Meredith
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