Author: Asa Chandler Maxson
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Category : Beets
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Principal Insect Enemies of the Sugar Beet in the Territories Served by the Great Western Sugar Company
Author: Asa Chandler Maxson
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Category : Beets
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Publisher:
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Category : Beets
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Cattle Beet Capital
Author: Michael Weeks
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496232313
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado Territory. Their planned agricultural community, which they named Greeley, was centered around small landholdings, shared irrigation, and a variety of market crops. One hundred years later, Greeley was the home of the world’s largest concentrated cattle-feeding operation, with the resources of an entire region directed toward manufacturing beef. How did that transformation happen? Cattle Beet Capital is animated by that question. Expanding outward from Greeley to all of northern Colorado, Cattle Beet Capital shows how the beet sugar industry came to dominate the region in the early twentieth century through a reciprocal relationship with its growers that supported a healthy and sustainable agriculture while simultaneously exploiting tens of thousands of migrant laborers. Michael Weeks shows how the state provided much of the scaffolding for the industry in the form of tariffs and research that synchronized with the agendas of industry and large farmers. The transformations that led to commercial feedlots began during the 1930s as farmers replaced crop rotations and seasonal livestock operations with densely packed cattle pens, mono-cropped corn, and the products pouring out of agro-industrial labs and factories. Using the lens of the northern Colorado region, Cattle Beet Capital illuminates the historical processes that made our modern food systems.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496232313
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado Territory. Their planned agricultural community, which they named Greeley, was centered around small landholdings, shared irrigation, and a variety of market crops. One hundred years later, Greeley was the home of the world’s largest concentrated cattle-feeding operation, with the resources of an entire region directed toward manufacturing beef. How did that transformation happen? Cattle Beet Capital is animated by that question. Expanding outward from Greeley to all of northern Colorado, Cattle Beet Capital shows how the beet sugar industry came to dominate the region in the early twentieth century through a reciprocal relationship with its growers that supported a healthy and sustainable agriculture while simultaneously exploiting tens of thousands of migrant laborers. Michael Weeks shows how the state provided much of the scaffolding for the industry in the form of tariffs and research that synchronized with the agendas of industry and large farmers. The transformations that led to commercial feedlots began during the 1930s as farmers replaced crop rotations and seasonal livestock operations with densely packed cattle pens, mono-cropped corn, and the products pouring out of agro-industrial labs and factories. Using the lens of the northern Colorado region, Cattle Beet Capital illuminates the historical processes that made our modern food systems.
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Journal of Agricultural Research
Author: Authority of the Secretary of Agriculture with the Cooperation of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Bulletin
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Journal of Agricultural Research
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Experiment Station Record
Author: U.S. Office of Experiment Stations
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Journal of Agricultural Research, Vol. XXII, 1921
Author: Secretary of Agriculture with the Cooperation of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Miscellaneous Publication
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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The Review of Applied Entomology
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Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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