num_pages: 336
description: Richly textured and deeply moving, Farm chronicles a year in the life of Tom and Sally Bauer of Crevecoeur County, Missouri, who cultivate nearly two square miles of the surface of the earth. They struggle to build up their farm, harvesting corn, birthing calves, planting wheat, coping with the vagaries of nature and government regulations. Required of them are ancient skills (an attunement to the weather, animals, crops, and land) as well as a mastery of modern technology, from high-tech machinery to genetics and sophisticated chemicals.
language: English
title: Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer
titlecomplete: Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer
genres: History, Nature, Food, Agriculture, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 143
publisher: Bison Books