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A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (2008) Gardner, Bruce L. (2002). American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00748-4. Hurt, R. Douglas. A Companion to American Agricultural History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022) Lauck, Jon.
As such, issues related to agriculture overlapped with areas covered by other committees and were often referred to those committees instead of the Agriculture Committee. [ 3 ] Following a debate over the necessity of various committees to have need of the services of a dedicated clerk, a Special Committee was formed to investigate ways to ...
The number of women working in agriculture has risen and the 2002 census of agriculture recorded a 40% increase in the number of female farm workers. [69] Inequality and respect are common issues for these workers, as many have reported that they are not being respected, listened to, or taken seriously due to traditional views of women as ...
The Family Farms Preservation Act would increase the tax threshold to $6 million meaning fewer Illinois farmers would be subject to the tax
There are stakeholders outside of the government that are also interested in food and agriculture issues. These include national farm groups, commodity associations, state organizations, nutrition and public health officials, advocacy groups representing conservation, recreation, rural development, faith-based interests, local food systems, and ...
United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research; United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy; United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Sharecropping in the United States; Shipping holiday; Single-grain experiment ...
The 2018 farm bill or Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 is an enacted United States farm bill that reauthorized $867 billion for many expenditures approved in the prior farm bill (the Agricultural Act of 2014). The bill was passed by the Senate and House on December 11 and 12, 2018, respectively.
Modern Farmer is a quarterly American magazine devoted to agriculture and food, founded in April 2013. [1] [2] The magazine is unique in that it attempts to have equally rural and urban readers, [3] and to "appeal to the person who wants to romanticize farming and the person who is knee deep in turkey droppings", according to The New York Times. [2]