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An Unremembered Diversity: Mixed Husbandry and the American Grasslands

dc.contributor.authorSylvester, Kenneth M.
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-16T18:25:17Z
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-16T18:25:17Z
dc.date.available2011-03-16T18:25:17Zen_US
dc.date.issued2009-07-07
dc.identifier.citationAgricultural History, 83, 3, 2009, 352-383 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83272>en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83272
dc.description.abstractThe 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 landscapesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Institute of Child Health and Human Developmenten_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAgricultural Historyen_US
dc.subjectGreat Plainsen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.subjectCrop Choiceen_US
dc.subjectFarm Modernizationen_US
dc.titleAn Unremembered Diversity: Mixed Husbandry and the American Grasslandsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelStatistics and Numeric Data
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumICPSRen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherGeoff Cunferen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/83272/1/Sylvester_Cunfer_Unremembered_Diversity_AH_83-3-(2009)-352-383.pdf
dc.owningcollnameInter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)


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