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Sustainable agriculture Sustainable agriculture
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE. From a technological and economic standpoint, agriculture today represents one of the success stories of the modern era. Despite an ever increasing global population, and a corresponding gradual decrease in the availability of nonrenewable natural... Read more
Tenants Tenants
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and National Farm Labor Union. Galvanized by a 1934 visit to northeast Arkansas by the socialist leader Norman Thomas, local Socialist party members H.L. Mitchell and Clay East helped found the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU). Initially focused on securing for... Read more
Fannie Farmer Fannie Farmer
F ANNIEF ARMER Born: March 23, 1857 Boston, Massachusetts Died: January 15, 1915 Boston, Massachusetts American cooking expert, author, and educator Fannie Farmer was an American authority in the art of cooking and the author of six books about... Read more
Agriculture industry Agriculture industry
AGRICULTURE SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AGRICULTURE SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. It is difficult for people living in an advanced industrialized society to fully comprehend the life of a modern farmer, much less the life of farmers living before the Industrial Revolution. Up until the end... Read more
Agricultural revolution Agricultural revolution
Agricultural Mobilization In an April 1943 National Geographic Magazine article titled "Farmers Keep Them Eating," Frederick Simpich writes: In the fields. That's where American farmers, including women, girls, and school children are fighting now—fighting frost, heat, dust, drought, mud,... Read more
Wendell Berry Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry (1934 – ) American writer, poet, and conservationist A Kentucky farmer, poet, novelist, essayist and conservationist, Berry has been a persistent critic of large-scale industrial agriculture Read more
United States Department of Agriculture United States Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture federal executive department established in 1862, whose head was made a cabinet member in 1889. The department administers federal programs related to food production and rural life. The department's principal duty is to aid farmers, but it also serves... Read more
Brannan Plan Brannan Plan
BRANNAN PLAN BRANNAN PLAN, a farm price support plan using direct payments to the farmer under certain conditions as a substitute for other price supports. Among the initiatives of President Harry Truman's Fair Deal, this plan was first proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan in... Read more
Fannie Merritt Farmer Fannie Merritt Farmer
Fannie Merritt Farmer Fannie Merritt Farmer (1857-1915) was an American authority in the art of cookery and the author of six books about food preparation. Fannie Farmer was born in Boston, Mass., on March 23, 1857. Her parents had hopes of sending her to college. But after high school... Read more
McNary-Haugen Bill McNary-Haugen Bill
McNary‐Haugen Bill (1924).In the years following World War I, farmers received prices for their products that represented a purchasing power far below prewar levels. This resulted in an effort by the farm bloc in Congress to secure a larger share for these producers, in part by making the... Read more

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