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Ida Elizabeth Brandon Mathis (1857 [1] –1925) was an American farmer and businesswoman who advocated for methods that would improve conditions for Southern farmers, including crop diversification and rotation and better methods of financing for small farmers. She is credited with reducing agricultural poverty in Alabama and diminishing the ...
An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a producer cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activities.. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperatives, which provide various services to their individually-farming members, and agricultural production cooperatives in which production ...
The Federal Farm Board was established by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 from the Federal Farm Loan Board established by the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916, with a revolving fund of half a billion dollars [1] to stabilize prices and to promote the sale of agricultural products. The board would help farmers stabilize prices by buying and ...
The producer price index released a day earlier on January 14 reported a modest 0.3% increase in wholesale prices in December, rising 3.3% year over year, up from 3% in November.
Universal Cooperatives, based in Eagan, Minnesota, was a cooperative controlled by 17 regional agricultural marketing and agricultural supply cooperatives. The distribution system included 110 regional feed mills, 26 warehouses, and 7 research farms.
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren’s time together on the Fantastic Four set was just the start of their long-term romance. The pair started dating on the set of the 2004 film, in which Alba starred ...
Rural American history is the history from colonial times to the present of rural American society, economy, and politics. [ 1 ] According to Robert P. Swierenga, "Rural history centers on the lifestyle and activities of farmers and their family patterns, farming practices, social structures, political ties, and community institutions."
The gold standard in theory and history (Psychology Press, 1997). Ferguson, Niall. The Ascent of Money – Financial History of the World (2009) online. Gernet, Jacques (1962). Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250–1276. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0720-0. Jacob Goldstein (2020).