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Category : Fruit trade
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Category : Fruit trade
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Doyle C. Johnson
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: United States. Crop Reporting Board
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Category : Agricultural estimating and reporting
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies
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Languages : en
Pages : 910

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture
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Languages : en
Pages : 910

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Category : Agriculture
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Pages : 72

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Author: Thomas A. Lyson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262622157
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Agriculture in the United States today increasingly operates in two separate spheres: large, corporate-connected commodity production and distribution systems and small-scale farms that market directly to consumers. As a result, midsize family-operated farms find it increasingly difficult to find and reach markets for their products. They are too big to use the direct marketing techniques of small farms but too small to take advantage of corporate marketing and distribution systems. This crisis of the midsize farm results in a rural America with weakened municipal tax bases, job loss, and population flight. Food and the Mid-Level Farm discusses strategies for reviving an "agriculture of the middle" and creating a food system that works for midsize farms and ranches. Activists, practitioners, and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, political science, and economics, consider ways midsize farms can regain vitality by scaling up aspects of small farms' operations to connect with consumers, organizing together to develop markets for their products, developing food supply chains that preserve farmer identity and are based on fair business agreements, and promoting public policies (at international, federal, state, and community levels) that address agriculture-of-the-middle issues. Food and the Mid-Level Farm makes it clear that the demise of midsize farms and ranches is not a foregone conclusion and that the renewal of an agriculture of the middle will benefit all participants in the food system--from growers to consumers. Thomas A. Lyson was Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University until his death in 2006. He was the author of Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community. G.W. Stevenson is Senior Scientist with the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-- Madison. Rick Welsh is Associate Professor of Sociology at Clarkson University.