Passing Down the Farm
Author: Donald J. Jonovic
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 240
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Author: Donald J. Jonovic
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph N. Belden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1000682420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1986, is a major reference work for the political discussions arising out of the 1985 Congress revisions of US food and farm laws. It covers production, distribution and consumption of food, analyses international as well as domestic problems, and presents new ways forward. Emphasising public policy and programmes, the book has chapters on agricultural production; environmental and resource problems; food marketing; domestic hunger and nutrition; and world hunger and development.
Author: Sarah Vogel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1635575257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a new foreword by Willie Nelson "An exquisitely written American saga." --Sarah Smarsh The "remarkably well told and heartfelt" (John Grisham) story of a young lawyer's impossible legal battle to stop the federal government from foreclosing on thousands of family farmers. In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel in North Dakota. Sarah, a young lawyer and single mother, listened to farmers who were on the verge of losing everything and, inspired by the politicians who had helped farmers in the '30s, she naively built a solo practice of clients who couldn't afford to pay her. Sarah began drowning in debt and soon her own home was facing foreclosure. In a David and Goliath legal battle reminiscent of A Civil Action or Erin Brockovich, Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' Constitutional rights. It was her first case. A courageous American story about justice and holding the powerful to account, The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on for our daily bread almost fell apart due to the willful neglect of those charged to protect it, and what we can learn from Sarah's battle as a similar calamity looms large on our horizon once again.
Author: James H. Shideler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0520350537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.
Author: California Farm Bureau Federation. Farm Crisis Task Force
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steve H Murdock
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1000301354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter nearly a decade of prosperity, rural America entered the 1980s with its agricultural base facing a severe financial crisis. Land values, export markets and the general demand for agricultural commodities were declining while the levels of indebtedness reached during the 1970s were becoming increasingly difficult to manage. By the middle of the 1980s, the existence of a crisis was apparent in farm failure rates that had reached levels that had not occurred since the 1930s and in the fact that large numbers of agricultural banks were failing and agencies that provide loans to farmers and ranchers were experiencing unprecedented losses. Small towns in agriculturally dependent rural areas were losing businesses, populations and related services, and extremely high rates of socioemotional problems were noted among rural residents in agriculturally dependent areas of the nation.
Author: Kathryn Marie Dudley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002-05-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780226169132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the social impact of the farm debt crisis of the 1980's through interviews with members of an agricultural community.
Author: Osha Gray Davidson
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the decline of the Heartland and its transformation into a bitterly divided and isolated regional ghetto. Through interviews with more than two hundred farmers, social workers, government officials, and scholars, he puts a human face on the farm crisis of the 1980s. In this expanded edition, Davidson emphasizes the tenacious power of far-right-wing groups; his chapter on these burgeoning rural organizations in the original edition of Broken Heartland was the first in-depth look - six years before the Oklahoma City bombing - at the politics of hate they nurture. He also spotlights NAFTA, hog lots, sustainable agriculture, and the other battles and changes over the past six years in rural America.
Author: David Goodman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-06-18
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1349103322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays examine the problems currently facing farmers and agricultural products in the international market.
Author: Peggy F. Barlett
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780807843994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book draws on the stories and words of over a hundred farm families in an average county in Georgia's prime agricultural region to construct an account of the disaster years and their consequences.