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1) Tractor wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the birth of modern agriculture
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture-a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world--
2) Food, Inc
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Explores the U.S. commercial food industry, examining corporate control of supply and market. The film seeks to demonstrate how the incentive for corporate profit can overwhelm consumer health needs, as well as the livelihood of the American farmer,
Publisher
[Meredith Corp., etc.]
Pub. Date
1902
Language
English
Description
Includes various special sections or issues annually: 1968- Harvesting issue (usually no. 7 or 8); 1968- Crop planning issue (usually no. 12; title varies slightly); Machinery management issue (usually no. 2); 1970- Crop planting issue (usually no. 4; title varies slightly).
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people--a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantly brown and exploited, and people of color disproportionately live in food apartheid neighborhoods and suffer from diet-related illness. The system is built...
6) Fresh
Publisher
Ripple Effect Productions
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
Author
Publisher
Advantage
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Steve Groff's message to consumers will resonate with the those who crave enhanced nutrient dense food. His message to his fellow farmers is profound and prophetic: they are in danger of becoming obsolete, unless they seize the opportunity by providing what customers want. Those consumers increasingly demand that the food they eat and the clothes they wear come from producers who observe responsible farming practices such as cover crops, reduced tillage,...
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