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From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (Clark Lectures)
Gary Holthaus
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Description for From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (Clark Lectures)
Hardcover. Demonstrates how outside economic, governmental, legal, and business developments play an increasingly influential, if not controlling, role in every farmer's life. This book offers an understanding of how we can create sustainable and vibrant land-based communities by adhering to fundamental agrarian values. Series: Culture of the Land. Num Pages: 408 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNAC; RN; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 757.
As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would increase both efficiency and yield, or so we thought. The directions taken by technology may have worked for a while, but the same technologies that give us an advantage also create disadvantages. It's now a common story in rural America: pesticides, fertilizers, "big iron" combines, and other costly advancements may increase speed but also reduce efficiency, while farmers endure debt, dangerous working conditions, and long hours to pay for the technology. Land, livelihood, and lives are lost in ... Read more
As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would increase both efficiency and yield, or so we thought. The directions taken by technology may have worked for a while, but the same technologies that give us an advantage also create disadvantages. It's now a common story in rural America: pesticides, fertilizers, "big iron" combines, and other costly advancements may increase speed but also reduce efficiency, while farmers endure debt, dangerous working conditions, and long hours to pay for the technology. Land, livelihood, and lives are lost in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Series
Culture of the Land
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813124193
SKU
V9780813124193
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About Gary Holthaus
Gary Holthaus is the author of several books, including Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West.
Reviews for From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (Clark Lectures)
Farmers all over the world have begun to choose a new path. Holthaus has taken the time to listen to, and share with us, the stories of such new farmers. - Fred Kirschenmann, Iowa State University