Three farms
Subtitle: making milk, meat and money from the American soil
By: by Mark Kramer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Agriculture -- United States.; Farm life -- United States.; Family farms -- United States.; Farm corporations -- California.; Dairy farms -- Massachusetts.
Description: Three Farms is about the people who farm the American soil - and about the complex world of money and technology that they now inhabit. For many readers, the word Farm calls to mind tranquil Currier and Ives scenes, and indeed most of our crops still grow on family farms. Yet agriculture is changing fast, and entrepreneurial control of our food supply is rapidly shifting out of the hands of small farmers and into the hands of those wise in the ways of high finance and national marketing. By following the lives of individual farmers Mark Kramer captures a complicated system in motion, and helps the reader make sense of what may become the most vital of all political questions: where will your next meal come from?
Notes: "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."