Industrial Growth of Iowa
Author : Ruth Luella Hoadley
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Industries
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Author : Ruth Luella Hoadley
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Industries
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Author : David J. Forkenbrock
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Page : 70 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Economic development
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Page : 2194 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Industries
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Beginning in 1956 each vol. includes as a regular number the Blue book of southern progress and the Southern industrial directory, formerly issued separately.
Author : Osha Gray Davidson
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
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Between 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.
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Page : 860 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Iowa
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Author : Dorothy Schwieder
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1587296764
In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schweider reveals a place of fascinating grassroots politics, economic troubles and triumphs, surprising cultural diversity, and unsung natural beauty. Above all, this is the history of the people of Iowa and the lives they have led—the accomplishments of both ordinary and not-so-ordinary Iowans.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Page : 2028 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
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Author : Joseph Leslie Anderson
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
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From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, farmers in the Corn Belt transformed their region into a new, industrial powerhouse of large-scale production, mechanization, specialization, and efficiency. Many farm experts and implement manufacturers had urged farmers in this direction for decades, but it was the persistent labor shortage and cost-price squeeze following WWII that prompted farmers to pave the way to industrializing agriculture. Anderson examines the changes in Iowa, a representative state of the Corn Belt, in order to explore why farmers adopted particular technologies and how, over time, they integrated new tools and techniques. In addition to the impressive field machinery, grain storage facilities, and automated feeding systems were the less visible, but no less potent, chemical technologies--antibiotics and growth hormones administered to livestock, as well as insecticide, herbicide, and fertilizer applied to crops. Much of this new technology created unintended consequences: pesticides encouraged the proliferation of resistant strains of plants and insects while also polluting the environment and threatening wildlife, and the use of feed additives triggered concern about the health effects to consumers. In Industrializing the Corn Belt, J. L. Anderson explains that the cost of equipment and chemicals made unprecedented demands on farm capital, and in order to maximize production, farmers planted more acres with fewer but more profitable crops or specialized in raising large herds of a single livestock species. The industrialization of agriculture gave rural Americans a lifestyle resembling that of their urban and suburban counterparts. Yet the rural population continued to dwindle as farms required less human labor, and many small farmers, unable or unwilling to compete, chose to sell out. Based on farm records, cooperative extension reports, USDA publications, oral interviews, trade literature, and agricultural periodicals, Industrializing the Corn Belt offers a fresh look at an important period of revolutionary change in agriculture through the eyes of those who grew the crops, raised the livestock, implemented new technology, and ultimately made the decisions that transformed the nature of the family farm and the Midwestern landscape.
Author : Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate
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Page : 804 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Wisconsin
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Most vols. have appendices consisting of reports of various State offices.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Rural Development
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
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