The Farmer's Age

The Farmer's Age
Author: Paul W. Gates
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315496631

Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume examines the aspects and problems of land policies and the growth in farming during the mid-1800s.

Dispossession

Dispossession
Author: Pete Daniel
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2013-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469602024

Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.

A Farmer's Life for Me

A Farmer's Life for Me
Author: Jan Dobbins
Publisher: Barefoot Books
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1782856722

A busy family and their friends spend a day working and playing on the farm. From milking the cows in the morning to closing the gate at night, learn about a day in the life of a farming family. Enhanced CD includes video animation and audio singalong.

The Farmer and Old-age Security

The Farmer and Old-age Security
Author: Israel Mordecai Baill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1955
Genre: Retirement
ISBN:

This report presents a summary analysis of four State surveys conducted to obtain objective data on the economic security of farmers, their retirement plans, and their attitudes toward OASI.

Our Family Farm

Our Family Farm
Author: Dana Sullivan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 9780692155431

Rocky, the dog, lives on the multi-generational Rhodes Family Farm. It's a busy place where his gal pal Dusty, her parents and grandparents work together to feed livestock and harvest grain. They do so with the help of their trusty farm equipment, each with its own name and personality.When Coretta the combine breaks down in the middle of harvest, Rocky saves the day by retrieving the one person who can fix her - Gramps.The book depicts the food production process from farm to grain elevator delivery to shipping to finished product. It tells the story of everyone working in harmony on a family farm to help feed the world and the equipment they use to do so.

Institutional Innovations in the Delivery of Farm Services in India

Institutional Innovations in the Delivery of Farm Services in India
Author: Sukhpal Singh
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2017-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8132237536

This book uses primary evidence to assess the value of agro-input and service delivery business models in terms of their inclusiveness, effectiveness and impact from a small farmer perspective, in the form of case studies in three Indian states: Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The services discussed include custom rental of farm machinery and equipment, franchising for backward and forward linkage for farmers and the supermarkets for delivery of farm inputs, and extension services. The book examines agro-input and service delivery business models as institutional innovations for inclusive and effective delivery of such services in the small farmer context, based on primary data from the agencies designing and implementing such models and the farmers who make use of these inputs and services. Further, it identifies major issues and challenges in the delivery of farm inputs and services across regions and types of farmers and examines possible policy and enabling provisions to promote cost-effective and high-quality agro-input delivery channels.