The Changing Scale of American Agriculture
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813922294
Subjects: Agriculture & related industries; American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Economic geography; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Science/Mathematics; USA; Agriculture - General; Industries - Agribusiness; Development - Economic Development; Earth Sciences - Geography; General; Agriculture; Economic aspects; Farms, Size of; United States
Description: "In The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, John Fraser Hart describes the transformation of farming from the mid-twentieth century, when small family farms were still viable, to the present, when a farm must sell at least $250,000 of farm products each year to provide an acceptable standard of living for a family."--BOOK JACKET.