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Computer-aided farm management of “the future,” as envisioned by artist Dav...
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Figure 1. Computer-aided farm management of “the future,” as envisioned by artist Davis Meltzer for National Geographic magazine in 1970.
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A 1921 textbook depiction of farm management as an integrative approach, co...
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Figure 2. A 1921 textbook depiction of farm management as an integrative approach, combining both theoretical and practical knowledge.
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Managing the Farm: Bullshit in Theory and Practice
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Figure 1. Computer-aided farm management of “the future,” as envisioned by artist Davis Meltzer for National Geographic magazine in 1970. ...
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Forging His Own Path: William Jasper Spillman and Progressive Era Breeding and Genetics
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (1): 50–73.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Laurie Carlson Abstract William Jasper Spillman (1863-1931) developed wheat hybrids at Washington State Agricultural College in 1899 and was the first to explain Mendelian theories to an agricultural audience. He moved to the USDA in Washington, DC, where he pioneered the field of farm management...
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Land Reform and Postcolonial Poverty in South Korea, 1950–1970
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 276–310.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of comparative studies of land reform within the politics of Cold War developmentalism. South Korean land reform in 1950 transformed most tenant farmers into independent small farm owners. Tenant farmers attained their long-held desire to own land, but individual farm management left them in a precarious state...
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From Thrift to Improvement: Reimagining Agrarian Management in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 547–579.
Published: 01 November 2023
... agricultural writers. It demonstrates that agricultural writers' approach to farm, land, and labor management moved from a localized context of thrifty householding in the sixteenth century to a national context of industriousness and improvement by the mid-seventeenth century. This change in discourse...
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Small Farms/Family Farms: Tracing a History of Definitions and Meaning
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 313–330.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of smallness. While tracing those changes from their beginnings in colonial and early national land policy, it pays most attention to the twentieth century, when the policy discussion abruptly turned from considering how best to expand land in farms toward considering how best to manage the steady decline...
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Chicken Woman: Gender and Labor in the Early Arkansas Poultry Industry
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (2): 133–161.
Published: 01 May 2025
... managers and workers on chicken farms long after industrialization and vertical integration. With their knowledge of how to care for chickens and their experience keeping track of farm finances, they were important participants in the growth of this new sector of American agribusiness. Industry, media...
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Gambling on Grapes: Management, Marketing, and Labor in California Agribusiness
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 104–127.
Published: 01 July 2012
... during the “managed crisis” of the harvest. At the same time, they aggressively pursued business strategies that would regularize production and marketing. However, the commercialization of agriculture made them more vulnerable to boycotts by the United Farm Workers Union, which forced California growers...
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Furniture Exempt from Seizure: African-American Farm Families and Their Property in Texas, 1880s–1930s
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 336–357.
Published: 01 July 2006
... and the Progressive farmers they served celebrated a rural aesthetic that advocated recycling and thrifty management. Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Notes 1 Stewart E.
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, The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms (Urbana: University of Illinois...
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Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 640–641.
Published: 01 October 2003
..."?economists, farm managers, agricultural professors, extension agents, bankers, insurance companies, and big businessmen, more so than farmers themselves?created a new "ideology" of farming based on large-scale production, specialized ma? chines, standardization of processes and products, reliance...
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False Gospels of Efficiency: Contested Knowledge, Determined Experts, and Unfaithful Lands in Rural Utah
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 342–378.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of conservation that oscillated between hydrologists' teachings of rational management through irrigation and local dry farming practices that seemed to acknowledge the valley's limitations—all in a futile effort to make the land faithful to an agri-spiritual aesthetic that persuaded scientists and farmers alike...
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The Global Ascension of Corn and Soybeans: From Managing Supply to Expanding Production in the United States and the World
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 470–480.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., a wheat-cotton coalition helped to forge a policy of supply management that relied on price supports, production controls, and export subsidies that aimed to increase farm incomes, stabilize agricultural markets, and prevent overproduction. In the 1990s, however, supply management policy was ended and its...
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"Hop to the Top with the Iowa Chop": The Iowa Porkettes and Cultivating Agrarian Feminisms in the Midwest, 1964–1992
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 477–502.
Published: 01 October 2009
.... By the late 1970s, however, members began to employ a new rhetoric shaped by their labor on the farm to claim an important stake in the production and marketing of commodities. They took responsibility for large-scale advertising campaigns, managed a growing budget, and became leaders within the IPPA...
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"A Starving Belly Doesn’t Listen to Explanations": Agricultural Evangelism in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900 to 1962
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 479–505.
Published: 01 October 2010
... the obstacles that either indigenous religious idi oms or local resource management strategies placed in their paths. William Wolmer and Ian Scoones argue thatmission and state impera tives coalesced in a discourse of mixed farming, providing "the perfect vehicle for achieving a rhetorical alliance between...
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Inquiétude dans les champs: Essai sur la gestion des exploitations agricoles dans l'espace francophone (vers 1730–vers 1830)
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 February 2024
... consists of the peasants' farm-management records of receipts, expenses, and dealings with multiple people. These writings offer an alternative to the viewpoint found in the texts of notaries, administrators, judges, and clerics, which are the documents typically used by historians. Analyzing...
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Farm Foundation’s Role as a Policy Issues Catalyst
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 352–365.
Published: 01 April 2000
... as the father of conservation in agriculture?to suggest foundation activities. The board's consensus was that the Farm Foundation would be most beneficial in conservation activi? ties, but it decided to approach Henry C. Taylor to be managing director. Taylor is widely regarded as the father of agricultural...
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Die Agrarfrage in der Industriegesellschaft: Wissenskulturen, Machtverhaeltnisse und natuerliche Ressourcen in der agrarisch-industriellen Wissensgesellschaft (1850-1950)
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of the development of key domains of knowledge since the mid-nineteenth century: farm management/ economics, mechanization, plant-breeding, and animal-breeding. In the last chapter, more discussion of farming s reliance and impact upon the environment would have been useful. Each chapter discusses how attempts...
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The USDA’s Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Sociological Studies of Rural Life and Agricultural Issues, 1919–1953
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 227–240.
Published: 01 April 2000
... with staff from the Di? vision of Farm Management and Costs, the Division of Land Economies, and the Division of State and Local Planning) to provide research and ser? vice support for the land-use planning program.4 The new action agencies, the new planning system for agriculture, and rural people had...
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Hispanic Farmers and Ranchers in the Soil and Water Conservation Movement in South Texas, 1940s to Present
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 April 2004
.... Johnson, a descendant of Richard King, who had a large ranch near Uvalde. The amounts spent on conservation programs in South Texas were provided by Juan M. Garcia, Texas State Farm Service Agency office, Aug. 29,2003. He is the Agricultural Program Manager. Most Hispanic pro? ducers are small...
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