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Improving Agricultural Practices: Science and the Australian Sugarcane Grower, 1864–1915
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 January 2004
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, "Wollongbar Sugar-Cane Experiments," Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales9 ( Nov. 1898 ): 1289 -95 AGS/70, AGS/71, Queensland State Archives, Brisbane Peter
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, "Australian Scientists, Sugar Cane Growers and the Search for New Gummosis-Resistant and Sucrose-Rich Varieties of Sugar Cane...
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North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 153–154.
Published: 01 January 2011
...April Merleaux North for the Harvest: Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry . By Jim Norris . St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press , 2009 . 216 pp., $22.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-87351-631-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book...
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The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers: Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 300–302.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Jason McCollom [email protected] The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers: Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise . By Paul D. Earl . Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press , 2019 . 368 pp., $27.95, paperback, ISBN 9780887558443. Copyright ©...
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Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (4): 774–776.
Published: 01 October 2019
... will also enjoy the read. Sarah Wassberg Johnson Independent Scholar Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century. By Cristina Salinas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. 286 pp., $45.00, hardback, ISBN 978-1-4773-1614-6. El Paso recently experienced...
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Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and US Colonialism
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 593–594.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Rosa Elena Carrasquillo Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and US Colonialism . By Teresita A. Levy . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2015 . 200 pp., $28.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8135-7132-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...
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Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Sarah Milov © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry . By Peter Benson . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2012 . 336 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-691-14920-2...
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Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 54–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Bryant K. Barnes Abstract Georgia fruit growers embodied the intelligent, business-minded mentality about which New South boosters preached. Rather than stubbornly adding to the already glutted cotton markets, these modern farmers diversified. In supplying urban markets with fruit and truck...
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Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 262–264.
Published: 01 April 2001
...David Igler Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920 . David Vaught . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 262 / Agricultural History were divided among themselves. Well-versed in the theoretical literature, the author evaluates various...
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Making an Industry: Fruit Growers and Indifference in the British Columbia Wine Industry, 1891–1945
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (2): 218–242.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Benjamin Bryce Abstract This article examines how fruit growers in British Columbia and the provincial government got into the business of making wine in the first half of the twentieth century. Growers sought primarily to sell fruit and saw wine as a possible additional source of revenue. Rather...
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Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. A main point of conflict between growers and rai...
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 6. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. A main point of conflict between growers and railroads revolved around higher costs associated with refrigerated cars like the one seen here. But the near monopoly of refrigerator cars held by companies like Armour & Co. of meat-packing fame left
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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
...Elizabeth Lamoree Abstract From the Great Depression to the Great Recession of the 1970s, American agricultural policy institutionalized growers' anti-union politics based on the unique characteristics of farming. California growers argued they needed access to a flexible and cheap labor supply...
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An Antipodean Apple Narrative: How Place and Time Evolved for the Market
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 290–310.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Johanna Christensen; Don Garden; Ruth Beilin Abstract In order to understand the social and ecological history of apple growing, we undertook historical research, drawing upon in-depth interviews with apple growers to explore local and historic knowledge as well as to obtain an understanding...
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Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 72–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Tom Okie Abstract The Georgia peach boom around the turn of the twentieth century was often hailed as a successful experiment in diversification. Peach growers, the story went, threw off the tyranny of King Cotton by pledging their allegiance to the “Queen of Fruits.” This portrayal is partly true...
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“Where Dollars Grow on Trees”: The Promise and Reality of Irrigated Farming in Central Washington, 1890–1910
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 388–406.
Published: 01 July 2014
... on trees,” but the reality was far different. While prospective growers had been told that lush orchards were a simple product of nature, irrigated farming required a large input of capital, a high degree of horticultural expertise, and lots of hard work. The conflict between nature and the manmade...
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Cold Capitalism: The Political Ecology of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 557–581.
Published: 01 October 2003
...Shane Hamilton Abstract Frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) was invented in 1945 by government researchers. To Florida orange growers beset by surplus production in some years and hard winter freezes in others, FCOJ was a "miracle" technology. Easily stored and transported, concentrate made...
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“Like Ribbons of Green and Gold”: Industrializing Lettuce and the Quest for Quality in the Salinas Valley, 1920–1965
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 269–295.
Published: 01 July 2006
... of lettuce cultivation in the Salinas Valley during the inter-war period highlights how early growers harnessed organizational techniques, transportation infrastructures, and technological and scientific knowledge to transcend both the ephemeral nature of lettuce and consumer taste. Yet, these very same...
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Defeating the Devil's Arm: The Victory over the Short-Handled Hoe in California Agriculture
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 494–512.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Taylor Cozzens Abstract In the mid–twentieth century many California growers required their field workers to use the short-handled hoe to thin and weed crops such as lettuce and sugar beets. With only an eight to eighteen-inch handle, this tool could be used only in a stooped position. Over time...
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The “Tobacco Trust” in Puerto Rico: From Cigarette Manufacturing to Agribusiness, 1899–1911
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 34–56.
Published: 01 January 2015
... major domestic cigarette factories and their former owners as shareholders. When the American Tobacco Company (ATC) entered the US cigar trade in 1902 in earnest, the PRATCO initiated an enormous expansion. While the trust never became a leaf grower save in Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Porto Rican Leaf...
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Noxious Nicotine: The Use of Nicotine in Norwegian Horticulture in the 1950s
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 248–269.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Hilde Kristin Røsstad Abstract Many horticulturists in the 1950s used nicotine-based products both for personal consumption and for pesticidal application. Growers in postwar Norwegian horticulture were sometimes poisoned by nicotine sulfate, but many also smoked tobacco, and this was widely...
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The Work of Local Culture: Wendell Berry and Communities as the Source of Farming Knowledge
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 174–194.
Published: 01 April 2011
... as a writer, as well as his experiences with manual farm work and the methods of environmentalist organic growers. He eventually concluded that only a community of farmers could produce and store effective knowledge and insisted that knowledge must be tacit—largely situated in locality, skills, and culture...
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