An Unremembered Diversity: Mixed Husbandry and the American Grasslands
dc.contributor.author | Sylvester, Kenneth M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-16T18:25:17Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-16T18:25:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-03-16T18:25:17Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2009-07-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Agricultural History, 83, 3, 2009, 352-383 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83272> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83272 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Green Revolution of the 1960s brought about a dramatic rise in global crop yields. But, as most observers acknowledge, this has come at a considerable cost to biodiversity. Plant breeding, synthetic fertilizers, and mechanization steadily narrowed the number of crop varieties commercially available to farmers and promoted fencerow-to-fencerow monocultures. Many historians trace the origins of this style of industrialized agriculture to the last great plow-up of the Great Plains in the 1920s. In the literature, farms in the plains are often described metaphorically as wheat factories, degrading successive landscapes. While in many ways these farms were a departure from earlier forms of husbandry in the American experience, monocultures were quite rare during the early transformation of the plains. Analysis of a large representative sample, based on manuscript agricultural censuses and involving twenty-five townships across the state of Kansas, demonstrates that diverse production reached even the most challenging of plains landscapes | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Agricultural History | en_US |
dc.subject | Great Plains | en_US |
dc.subject | Agriculture | en_US |
dc.subject | Crop Choice | en_US |
dc.subject | Farm Modernization | en_US |
dc.title | An Unremembered Diversity: Mixed Husbandry and the American Grasslands | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Statistics and Numeric Data | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | ICPSR | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Geoff Cunfer | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/83272/1/Sylvester_Cunfer_Unremembered_Diversity_AH_83-3-(2009)-352-383.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) |
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