Family Farming

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803217485
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Farming written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial agribusiness takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economic reasons. But will they? This timely book exposes the biases in American farm policies that irrationally encourage expansion, biases evident in federal commodity programs, income tax provisions, and subsidized credit services. Family Farming also exposes internal conflicts, particularly the conflict between the private interests of individual farmers and the public interest in family farming as a whole. It challenges the assumption that bigger is better, critiques the technological basis of modern agriculture, and calls for farming practices that are ethical, economical, and ecologically sound. The alternative policies discussed in this book could yet save the family farm, and the ways and means of saving it are argued here with special urgency. ø This Bison Books edition includes a new introduction by the author providing a more national perspective, underscoring the repetitive cycles of American agriculture over the decade, and assessing the major policy issues that have dominated agriculture in recent years.

Author : Teresa Opheim
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609384539
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Family Farms written by Teresa Opheim and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental transfer of farmland is occurring in the United States. The average American farmer is fifty-eight years old, and the 40 percent of farmland owners who lease their land to others are even older: sixty-six on average. Five times as many farmers are over sixty-five as are under thirty-five. What will happen to this land? Who will own it? What if one child wants to farm but can't afford to buy out the nonfarming siblings? What if keeping the farm in the family means foregoing the significant profits that could be earned from selling it? These sometimes painful and divisive questions confront many farmers and farmland owners today. How they answer them will shape their families and the land for generations to come. The Farm Legacy Letters project, developed by the member-driven nonprofit Practical Farmers of Iowa, is designed to help farmers and farmland owners think about their farm’s future and talk about it with their families. An essential complement to handbooks on business succession, this book gathers the letters and stories of midwestern families about the land they cherish—how they acquired it, what they treasure most about it, and their hopes for its future. Some of the writers descend from families who have owned a particular patch of the earth since the 1800s, while others became farmland owners more recently—one as recently as 2015. Some are no longer farmland owners at all, because—after careful thought about what mattered most to them—they sold their land to the next generation of farmers. All of these writers hope that, by sharing their farmland legacies, they will encourage others to ponder and then write about the histories, accomplishments, challenges, and hopes for their farmland for the generations who come after they are gone.

Author : Caitlin Henderson
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0525654186
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith, Farming, and Family written by Caitlin Henderson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Caitlin Henderson fell in love with a farmer, she learned the important skills of life through refinement in the ever-changing seasons as a mother and farmer's wife. Because Caitlin didn't grow up on a farm, there was a period of adjustment and struggle--intermixed with humorous mishaps--as she learned to navigate this different way of life. The Rural Way is filled with stories and the lessons God taught her along the way about His goodness, grace, love, and redemption. From the big lessons like facing your fears to the simpler ones like the impact of hospitality, adventures such as run-ins with cows, wayward tractors, and a squeaky farmhouse enliven each enthralling story. Woven through every chapter are the scriptures that our weary souls need to be refreshed and strengthened in truth. Caitlin shares how God used the challenges that arise on a farm to refine her, but that each season is one that any wife and mother like you can relate to--even if you're far removed from the rural way of life. Whether you are in the middle of a wheat field, or in the heart of the city, you can grab hold of these moments and lessons as you reflect on a simpler way of life"--

Author : Joel Salatin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963810939
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Friendly Farming written by Joel Salatin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Family Friendly Farming offers hope for stressed families, dissatisfied employees, and hurried-harried lifestyles. Based on his love affair with good farming, author Joel Salatin's principles apply to all entrepreneurial, family businesses"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Restraint of Trade Activities Affecting Small Business
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future of Family Farming written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Restraint of Trade Activities Affecting Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Boguslaw Galeski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429712618
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Farming In Europe And America written by Boguslaw Galeski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has happened since agricultural economists and rural sociologists met at the University of Chicago in 1946 to discuss family farming. The problems and issues related to the structure of agriculture have been intensified by current economic considerations, which promote the growth of larger-scale commercial farming operations and edge out many smaller farms owned, operated, and worked by families. In this book, contributors from eleven nations in Europe and North America provide a comparison of farm structure under different economic and political systems, including Poland as an example of a non-market economy. In addition to providing information on how local, state, and international policies have affected the agricultural enterprise, they look at the role of farmers' organizations in policy formulation and take note of changes in farm patterns and policies that have had an impact on farm production, off-farm work, and the welfare of farm families and rural communities.

Author : Ronald Jager
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584650270
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fate of Family Farming written by Ronald Jager and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating look at the condition of family farming--yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Author : Stephen W. Reiss
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449088732
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family, Farming and Freedom written by Stephen W. Reiss and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professional papers and personal articles, primarily in the Sullivan (Indiana) Daily times."

Author : Ranjan Kumar Lahiri
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famiy Farming in a Developing Economy written by Ranjan Kumar Lahiri and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems of Entry Into Family Farming written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: