Agriculture and Community Change in the U.S.: The Congressional Research Reports

by Louis E. Swanson (Editor)

Overview

This book contains the Office of Technology Assessment commissioned papers analyzing the Northeast, South, Midwest, the Great Plains and the West of the U.S. The papers indicate that the relationship between the structure of agriculture and characteristics of rural communities vary in the U.S. .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429712975
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/11/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	372
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Swanson, Louis E.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Farm and Community Change: A Brief Introduction to the Regional Studies -- Industrial Agriculture and Rural Community Degredation -- Public Policy, Farm Size, and Community Well-Being in Farming-Dependent Counties of the Plains -- Agricultural Technologies, Farm Structure and Rural Communities in the Corn Belt: Policies and Implications for 2000 -- Farm Structure and Rural Communities in the Northeast -- Farm Structure and Rural Well-Being in the South -- Catf Appendixes