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Pages: 153
Authors: Teresa Opheim
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A monumental transfer of farmland is occurring in the United States. The average American farmer is fifty-eight years old, and the 40 percent of farmland owners
Gaining Ground
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Pages: 336
Authors: Forrest Pritchard
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-21 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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One fateful day in 1996, upon discovering that five freight cars’ worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard undert
Family Farming
Language: en
Pages: 376
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial agribusiness takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms shoul
Land of Amber Waters
Language: en
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Authors: Doug Hoverson
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A visual history of MInnesota beers and breweries traces the evolution of the state's beer industry, from the 1849 construction of the first brewery to the grow
On Behalf of the Family Farm
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Jenny Barker Devine
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-01 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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On Behalf of the Family Farm traces the development of women’s activism and agrarian feminisms in the Midwest after 1945, as farm women’s lives were being t