...Jeff Kolnick Disputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program . Jean Choate . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 127 professional historians, this work will add to the literature on the subject of western land use...

...ROBERT S. ROBINSON Abstract From 1950 to 1952 Harry S Truman invested significant personal effort and political capital in an effort to improve the circumstances of migratory farm workers and to revise the Bracero Program with Mexico. To this end, Truman created the high profile President’s...

...–73, and 259 31 Longview Daily News , 13 March1928 Negotiating "the Circle of Friendship": Agriculture, Cooperation, and Diversity in a Small-Town Revitalization Program, 1926-1930 DEB HOSKINS Extension of the circle of friendship is naturally advantageous to the country and city residents...

..., DC: US GPO, 1977), 36; Clair Apodaca, Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxical Legacy (New York: Routledge, 2006), 35. See also Lincoln P. Bloomfield, “From Ideology to Program to Policy: Tracking the Carter Human Rights Policy,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 2, no. 1...

... and the contradiction with Japan’s food policy. Among the crucial factors that decided the market development program results, this article emphasizes the importance of recipient countries’ policies and multilateral relations. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 NOTES 1. Ezra Taft Benson, Cross Fire...

... as a research assistant to the southern sociologist Arthur Raper in Greene County, Georgia, on a study of its Unified Farm Program. This was a national USDA demonstration proj? ect to establish county planning committees to coordinate the work of all government programs.4 The stories from my mother's work...

...Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I . By Rose Hayden-Smith . Jefferson : McFarland & Company , 2014 . 264 pp., $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7864-7020-4. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History...

...John R. Garnett Abstract Created in 1943, the Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP) was a collaborative program between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican government aimed at improving yields of corn and wheat varieties in Mexico. The MAP's wheat program was more influential than its corn...

...José Miguel Chávez Leyva Abstract This research looks at the Bracero Program and the Green Revolution in relation to their impact on rural peasant farmers in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. The Bracero Program and the Mexican Agricultural Program, which began the Green Revolution, both arose from...

...-handed commitment to democracy. They merged social science with local knowledge and integrated federal action with citizen participation. These activist principles were best exemplified in a Third New Deal program called county land-use planning, within which sociologists played two roles. First...

... agricultural modernization programs and activities in Colombia in the 1950s and 1960s. Where the Rockefeller Foundation promoted Colombian wheat production, the USDA and other US-based agencies criticized that production and instead promoted the importation of US-grown wheat through the PL 480 program...

... unsuited to the needs of small peasant farmers. This paper explores why such inappropriate technology might have been developed, focusing on the early years of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP). It shows that some foundation officers as well as agricultural advisors had prior...

...Charles Kenneth Roberts Abstract The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was the New Deal's most sustained and successful effort to address chronic rural poverty in the United States, particularly through its program of rural rehabilitation. But at the time and since the effectiveness of rural...

... or hybridization. The Casaccia Center strategically implemented a research program based on two crucial elements: first, the use of the “gamma field,” a circular area with a retractable gamma-ray source in the middle, where growing plants could be exposed to chronic irradiation; and second, the launch of a broad...

...Peter A. Kopp Abstract This essay documents the century-long efforts of Peter Darby, Ernest S. Salmon, and Ray Neve, all of whom were directors of England's Hop Research Program. While these scientists engaged in myriad projects, the central story surrounds the development and release of hybrid hop...

...Bobby Smith, II Abstract As the nation prepares to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Food Stamp Act of 1964 on August 31, 2024, this essay reframes the “iron triangle” of agricultural policy that generated the Food Stamp Program, known today as the USDA's Supplemental...

..., 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...

... by the 1930s. He sought to resolve the situation with his plans for a national agricultural allotment program, which eventually became the foundation for federal farm programs. His books, "The Law of Diminishing Returns (1924)" and "Balancing the Farm Output: A Statement of the Present Deplorable Conditions...