The Fate of Family Farming
Subtitle: Variations on an American Idea
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: March 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781584650263
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; American history; Nature; Family farms; Business / Economics / Finance; Nature/Ecology; USA; Industries - Agribusiness; Nature / General; General; Agricultural productivity; Agriculture; United States
First sentence: The eastern United States has known nearly four hundred years of farming, mostly by former Europeans, a saga that goes from Indian corn to genetically modified corn, a rich and complex narrative, with many a painful early failure and many a later ambiguous success.