Cattle in the Cotton Fields

Cattle in the Cotton Fields
Author: Brooks Blevins
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2014-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817357718

Blevins's study increases our understanding of the history of southern agriculture by providing a valuable model of a story repeated throughout the South.

Cotton Fields No More

Cotton Fields No More
Author: Gilbert C. Fite
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 081318469X

No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture. Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts. Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.

Feed Efficiency in the Beef Industry

Feed Efficiency in the Beef Industry
Author: Rodney A. Hill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0470959525

Feed Efficiency in the Beef Industry provides a thorough and concise overview of feed efficiency in beef cattle. It frames the great importance of feed efficiency to the industry and details the latest findings of the many scientific disciplines that intersect and aim to improve efficient and sustainable production of nutritious beef. The vast majority of production costs are directly tied to feed. With increased demand for grains to feed a rapidly increasing world population and to supply a new demand for alternative fuels, feed costs continue to increase. In recent years, the negative environmental impacts of inefficient feeding have also been realized; as such feed efficiency is an important factor in both economic viability and environmental sustainability of cattle production. Feed Efficiency in the Beef Industry covers a broad range of topics ranging from economic evaluation of feed efficiency to the physiological and genetic bases of efficient conversion of feed to high quality beef. Chapters also look at how a fuller understanding of feed efficiency is leading to new selective breeding efforts to develop more efficient cattle. With wide-ranging coverage from leading international researchers, Feed Efficiency will be a valuable resource for producers who wish to understand the complexities, challenges, and opportunities to reduce their cost of production, for students studying the topic and for researchers and professionals working in the beef industry.

Cotton Fields No More

Cotton Fields No More
Author: Gilbert C. Fite
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813150485

No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture. Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts. Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.

Experiment Station Work, XXXVIII

Experiment Station Work, XXXVIII
Author: August Mayer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1906
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

"The codling moth or apple worm and the apple scab have no direct relationship except that both attack the apple and are, respectively, the chief insect enemy and the chief fungous disease of this fruit. Both are, however, subject to practical control by sprays, which being necessary at the same dates, in the main, can be combined in single applications, and it is for this reason that they are considered together in this bulletin. A brief life history is given of the codling moth, with a description of the sprays and other remedies for it, followed by similar matter on the apple scab. The bulletin concludes with a joint consideration, for both pests, of spraying outfits and methods, with directions for the combination of the spray mixtures, and a spray calendar" -- introduction.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 838
Release: 1897
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Department Bulletin

Department Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1012
Release: 1915
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: