Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture
In the nineteenth century, most American farms had a small orchard or at least a few fruit-bearing trees. People grew their own apple trees or purchased apples grown within a few hundred miles of their homes. Nowadays, in contrast, Americans buy mass-produced fruit in supermarkets, and roughly 70 percent of apples come from Washington State. So ......
In 1873 "Uncle Joe" Glidden, a sixty-year-old farmer in DeKalb, Illinois, became inspired to improve fencing after seeing a thorny rail at a county fair. Taking an old hand-cranked coffee mill, he modified it to coil some wire barbs and strung them on a wire in hopes of keeping his cattle from his cornfield. When the wire became tangled, he ......
Food Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies
A complete market research guide to the food & beverages industry-a tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches or financial research. Contains our famous trends analysis, statistical tables and a glossary. Includes our unique profiles of the top 500 global food industry firms, from retailers to processors, ......
How wheat growing, milling, and baking shaped the people and culture of North Texas. In the national imaginary, America's amber fields of grain lie in the country's center, but for more than a century, they also grew across one pocket of the South: North Texas. From the 1840s to the 1970s, the state's agriculture, dominated in lore by cotton in ......
Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change
Noted Montana rancher and world renowned agriculture expert Gilles Stockton's polemic confronts the divide between urban and rural America. In Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the causes of what he refers to as the "rural-urban divide" and ......
Previously unpublished, Land! unites John Crowe Ransom's poetic sensibilities with his argument for an agrarian economy as an alternative to capitalism. In Land!, the accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom, leading member of the Southern Agrarian movement, examines economics at the height of the Great Depression. Long thought to have ......
Un Manuel Pour Les Entreprises Qui Construisent Des Chaines D'approvisionnement Durables (troisieme edition)
Ce manuel montre aux entreprises agroalimentaires comment developper des chaines d'approvisionnement plus durables, resilientes et productives et met en exergue l'impact substantiel de cette demarche sur le developpement.
Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt
In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and capital were seen as the main threat, over time large landowners and their imperial allies were targeted as the principal obstacles to the country's ......
Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt
In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and capital were seen as the main threat, over time large landowners and their imperial allies were targeted as the principal obstacles to the country's ......
