...Diana Córdoba Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina . By Pablo Lapegna . London : Oxford University Press , 2016 . 248 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-1902-1514-9 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017...

... consume soy mostly as components of either heavily processed foods or factory-farmed meats. Author Matthew Roth muses, How exactly had the soybean jumped the Pacific to lead such a strange double life (ix)? Had Roth focused Magic Bean, an adaptation of his dissertation, around this question of duality...

... a wholesome organic and a tantalizingly exotic appeal. However, Americans consume soy mostly as components of either heavily processed foods or factory-farmed meats. Author Matthew Roth muses, How exactly had the soybean jumped the Pacific to lead such a strange double life (ix)? Had Roth focused Magic Bean...

... "Is the Soybean Boom Over?" Wallaces’ Farmer , 20 October1945 U.S. Census of Agriculture, 1940 , vol. 1 , pt. 2, 121 "Combines on Beans," Wallaces’ Farmer , 15 September1942 Iowa State Department of Agriculture , Iowa Book of Agriculture for 1954–1955 (Des Moines: State of Iowa, 1956...

.... Jacob Ivey Florida Institute of Technology Latin America Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina. By Pablo Lapegna. London: Oxford University Press, 2016. 248 pp., $27.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-1902-1514-9. Soybeans and Power considers...

...: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Gasparri, Nestor Ignacio, Tobias Kuemmerle, Patrick Meyfroidt, Yann le Polain de Waroux, and Holger Kreft. “The Emerging Soybean Production Frontier in Southern Africa: Conservation Challenges and the Role of South-South Telecouplings,” Conservation Letters 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb...

.... Before 1950, rice growers had nearly perfected ways to irrigate their crops while controlling effects of drought. Rice growers' irrigation models, how? ever, did not fit the needs of southern cotton, corn, soybean, peanut, and to? bacco producers.3 As a result, during periodic years of drought between...

... its history. Or perhaps we are following the gaze of farmers themselves, the majority of whom seem little interested in their relation to what is on our dinner tables. Many of the commodity producers, who grow soybeans for processors, corn for livestock feed, and wheat for highly processed breads...

... Agricultural History the blind spots in contrasting positions of GM soybeans. Almost absent from the book is the role and views of agribusiness corporations and local and regional agrarian elites, creating an unbalanced picture of those who largely benefited from GM soybeans expansion. Diana Córdoba...

..., Iowa farmers by the early 1970s had adopted the industrial ideal hook, line, and sinker. Faced with a cost-price squeeze and tight rural labor markets in the 1950s and 1960s, Iowa farmers became ever more reliant on chemicals, machinery, and debt to produce corn, soybeans, and pork in astounding...

...-demanding crops, might not be prepared to give. Philpott's prescription for Iowa agriculture mostly involves a shift away from the exclusive emphasis on corn and soybeans, including ending federal programs encouraging these crops, especially the ethanol program. He thinks that Iowa farmers should...

... in Washington, DC, has been simmering at the back of my mind since I was a graduate student in Iowa in the 1980s, observing and participating in the response to the farm financial crisis. Many of the family farms involved in that crisis were conventional Midwestern specialized corn/soybean farms, many hundreds...

... on chemical and biological agents to the exclusion of radiological, nuclear, and explosive agents. Whereas the compendium of animal biological agents (Table 1) is extensive, the analogous list for crops (Table 2) omits important biothreats such as rice blast, soybean rust, afla toxin-producing fungi, citrus...

.... lisa cox Ontario Veterinary College University of Guelph Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild and America s Plant Hunters. By amanda Harris. gainesville: university Press of Florida, 2015. 312 pp., $24.95, hardback, iSBn 978-0-8130-6061-3. Soybeans, navel oranges, avocados, mangoes foods familiar...

..., and explosive agents. Whereas the compendium of animal biological agents (Table 1) is extensive, the analogous list for crops (Table 2) omits important biothreats such as rice blast, soybean rust, afla toxin-producing fungi, citrus greening, and citrus canker. The strengths of the book lie not in itsdescription...

...: university Press of Florida, 2015. 312 pp., $24.95, hardback, iSBn 978-0-8130-6061-3. Soybeans, navel oranges, avocados, mangoes foods familiar to virtually all americans today were unknown to most americans when the century began. introduced through the efforts of adventurers and agricultural scientists...

... plant species, only 150 are cultivated and 4 of these (wheat, rice,maize, and soybeans) comprise over 50 percent of our food. Our over-reliance on these crops, fostered largely by subsidies in developed countries, the authors contend, has led to falling prices and the abandonment of arable land because...

... rural labor markets in the 1950s and 1960s, Iowa farmers became ever more reliant on chemicals, machinery, and debt to produce corn, soybeans, and pork in astounding quantities. The most important contribution of this book is its focus on the post World War II period. Scholarly accounts of the postwar...

... created by resource extraction to build tanks (contributor Kent Curtis), acres of soybean farms plowed under to make way for newly constructed aviation factories (Thomas Robertson and Christopher W. Wells), or military base construction and expansion of oil refining along the Gulf Coast that led...

... and a shifting political regime. Under neoliberal rule, traditionalist Mexican Mennonite colonists paradoxically boosted the modernization of the frontier by capitalizing on the commercial potential of another migrant, the soybean. Just like settler communities, soy transformed in the process of its...