Farming for the Long Haul
Farming for the Long Haul

Author: Michael Foley

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1603588000

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Farming in the ruins of the twentieth century -- A short, unhappy history of business advice for farmers -- Subsistence first! -- Land for the tiller -- Soil, civilization, and resilient farmers through the centuries -- Resourceful farmers -- Woodlands and wastes -- It takes a village: leisure, community, and resilience -- Getting a living, forging a livelihood -- Farmer, citizen, survivor: politics and resilience

Wildly Successful Farming
Wildly Successful Farming

Author: Brian DeVore

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780299318802

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Tells the stories of farmers across the American Midwest who are balancing profitability and food production with environmental sustainability and a passion for all things wild. Whether producing grain, vegetables, fruit, meat, or milk, these ecological agrarians see biological activity on the land as a measure of sustainability.

Government Policy and Farmland Markets
Government Policy and Farmland Markets

Author: Charles Moss

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-02-28

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 0470384778

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Of immeasurable value to lenders, agricultural economists, and a host of agribusinesses this unique volume brings together leading farmland authorities in the United States and Canada to examine the economic determinants of land value and the consequences of change in land values. As the most basic factor of production in the agricultural enterprise, farmland dominates the agricultural balance sheet, accounting for an average of 70% of all agricultural assets. The authors of this timely book provide expert analysis and review of this subject.

Farming for Us All
Farming for Us All

Author: Michael Mayerfeld Bell

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780271046327

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Farming for Us All gives us the opportunity to explore the possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents.