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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (2): 257–258.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Dennis R. Cooley Price, Principle, and the Environment . Mark Sagoff . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews Price, Principle, and the Environment By Mark Sagoff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 296 pp., $70.00, hardback, ISBN 0-52183723-5...
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Irish Agriculture: A Price History from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Eve of the First World War
Agricultural History (2010) 84 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Kevin O’Neill Irish Agriculture: A Price History from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Eve of the First World War . Liam Kennedy and Peter M. Solar . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Winter arestillplentyofopportunitietsoexpandonthemateriapl...
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Agricultural History (2025) 99 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Michael G. Chang The Price of Collapse underscores environmental stress as the root of the crises that ultimately destroyed the late Ming state and society, but without succumbing to a crude determinism. By delving into the particularities of the Little Ice Age's historical impact in China...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Lloyd Price [email protected] Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar . By Jonathan Saha . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . 280 pp., $99.99 , hardcover, ISBN 9781108839402 . Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society 2024 Jonathan...
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (2): 127–146.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Jay M. Price; James Mershon; Teddie Barlow Abstract In many cases, residents in rural communities requiring specialized medical diagnostics and care have had to either endure long journeys to larger cities or do without. In response, a number of programs and services have emerged to bring...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 462–469.
Published: 01 August 2024
.... Conservation policies have consistently had both income support and environmental purposes, and have been largely countercyclical: conservation funding decreases when crop and livestock prices are higher, as income support becomes less important. This happens even though higher prices typically cause...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 309–332.
Published: 01 July 2007
... their efficiency and were able to lower prices. Lower prices made the products of American plantations affordable to an ever-growing number of European consumers. The increased consumption fueled the expansion of the American plantation colonies, transformed the Atlantic into an English inland sea, and led...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 557–581.
Published: 01 October 2003
... could be transformed into concentrate rather than destroyed. Thus, FCOJ appeared to rationalize the Florida orange industry in the 1950s, eliminating seasonal and annual swings in production and stabilizing prices and profits. However, when severe frosts attacked Florida groves in 1957-58 and again...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 April 2009
... flax to their new breaking for other reasons. Producers would only put flax on any land when a range of economic and environmental conditions were in place. It was never sown without promise of adequately high prices or in the absence of affordable seed and other inputs. When price allowed, it usually...
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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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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 87–119.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Daniel Ott Abstract During the 1880s and 1890s the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company created a brand based upon Cyrus H. McCormick's supposed invention of the mechanized reaper in 1831. The company's “prestige of priority” functioned to break the industry price-slashing deadlock of the “reaper...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 187–214.
Published: 01 April 2017
... blocks too small to be viable, and in the 1930s world commodity prices collapsed. From 1938 to 1944 settlers across the Mallee experienced a run of very dry years, and dust storms became a feature of Mallee life. Government intervention resulted in the consolidation of blocks, which enabled settlers...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 386–412.
Published: 01 July 2020
... development. In the 1860s the expansion of wasteland and the rising price of grain in provinces destroyed by the Taiping Rebellion convinced some to voice support for introducing labor-saving machinery into rural areas. In the 1870s the drought that catalyzed the North China Famine persuaded others...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Jacqueline McGlade Abstract Recently, agriculture has assumed an elevated role in world diplomacy due to pressing issues like international poverty relief, changing environmental conditions, farm trade imbalances, rising food prices, and the diversion of crops into bio-fuel production. Consequently...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Peter Hillis Abstract In the nineteenth century many farmers kept a diary of the farming year to record such features as the weather, crop yields, animal husbandry, and prices. Research into church and people in the parishes of Fordyce and Portsoy in North East Scotland led to the discovery...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 224–243.
Published: 01 April 2010
... amounts of capital, and little science. This paper shows that Spanish farmers were in fact capable of growing high-quality oranges at prices that were more competitive than those in California, although instead they often preferred to satisfy the strong demand for middling fruit from Great Britain because...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 198–210.
Published: 01 April 2000
...) Tinley, Public Regulation of Milk Marketing in California, 71 9 David A.
Clarke
, Olin D. Forker, and Aaron C. Johnson Jr., "Pricing Milk for Manufactur¬ ing Purposes in California," California Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 801 , June 1964 , 7 California...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 136–161.
Published: 01 April 2000
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, Agriculture in an Unstable Economy (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1945 ) D. Gale
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, Forward Prices for Agriculture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947 ) 14 Munsimay
Gopinath
and Terry L. Roe, "Sources of Sectoral Growth in an Economy Wide Context: The Case of U.S...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (2): 188–216.
Published: 01 April 2001
... Congressional Record, 66th Cong., 2nd sess., 1920, 59, pt. 7:7507-08 Report ofthe Federal Trade Commission on Sugar Supply and Prices, 101-02 "Smoot Calls Utah-ldaho Probe A Frame-Up; Utah Senator Asserts Aim of Move Political," The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 1920 Smoot to Nibley, 9 May 1920 Sugar...
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (3): 373–397.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., Special Collections Research Center, Regenstein Library, University of Chicago (hereafter TWSP). An example would be pricing corn to discourage the overfeeding of cattle, which produced wasteful beef fat. Corn could then be diverted to war production needs while consumers could get their nutritional...
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