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A history of agricultural policy : chronological outline ( U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, 1992) online; Ardrey, Robert L, American agricultural implements: a review of invention and development in the agricultural implement industry of the United States (1894) online; a major comprehensive overview in 236 pages.
Rural American history is the history from colonial times to the present of rural American society, economy and politics. [1] ... The farmer's standard of living: ...
The Routledge History of Rural America (2018) Schapsmeier, Edward L; and Frederick H. Schapsmeier. Encyclopedia of American agricultural history (1975) online; Schmidt, Louis Bernard, and Earle Dudley Ross, eds. Readings in the economic history of American agriculture (Macmillan, 1925) excerpts from scholarly studies, colonial era to 1920s. online.
The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897 (1945) online, a standard scholarly history Shannon, Fred A. American farmers' movements (1957) a brief survey with primary documents online Tontz, Robert L. "Memberships of general farmers' organizations, United States, 1874-1960."
Agricultural history took a different path from the Old World as the Americas lacked large-seeded, easily domesticated grains (such as wheat and barley) and large domestic animals that could be used for agricultural labor. Rather than the practice which developed in the Old World of sowing a field with a single crop, pre-historic American ...
Plain Folk of the Old South is a 1949 book by American Vanderbilt University historian Frank Lawrence Owsley, one of the Southern Agrarians.In it he used statistical data to analyze the makeup of Southern United States of America society, contending that yeoman farmers made up a larger middle class than was generally thought.
Few things are as iconic as the American farmer. Our farmers don't get much appreciation in today's modern economy, but without such a strong agricultural base we'd be spending much more of our ...
Instead, the government began requiring farmers to enroll in a crop insurance program in order to receive farm payments. This led to years of the highest farm subsidies in American history. [15] Direct payments also began in the late 1990s as a way to support struggling farmers, regardless of crop output. [17]