Corn and hog surplus of the corn belt
In: Food Research Institute, Miscellaneous Publications 6
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In: Food Research Institute, Miscellaneous Publications 6
In: Energy Economics, Forthcoming
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In: Journal of political economy, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 552-554
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 469-471
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Iowa and the Midwest Experience
In: Midwestern history and culture
Klappentext: Stretching from the Rockies to the Appalachians, the Corn Belt is America's heartland. Making the Corn Belt traces the geographical and agricultural evolution of this region, whose agriculture is based on the tradition of feeding corn to meat animals, especially beef cattle and hogs. The use of corn as a feed grain emerged in the westward movement of Euro-American farming people from the Upland South to the Ohio Valley. In the five islands of fertile land west of the Appalachians - the Nashville Basin, Pennyroyal Plateau, Bluegrass, Miami Valley, and Virginia Military District - corn emerged as the best crop to feed livestock. Thus was the Corn Belt born. Migrants from the Five Islands took corn-livestock agriculture west to the Mississippi Valley, and by 1850 the core of today's Corn Belt was a cultural region developed by a segment of the population whose ancestry could be traced back to the Ohio Valley. Corn Belt agriculture, however, spread northward more slowly than it did westward, partly because of the patterns of migration established in the spread of the frontier. The Civil War demonstrated that, even though its agriculture was distinctive, the larger region was divided in social and political terms. John Hudson traces these regional-agricultural themes into the rapid technological changes of the 1930s. The introduction of soybeans at about this time helped shift parts of the Corn Belt from livestock feeding to cash-grain production. Some of these trends continue today in parts of the region, while other areas have specialized in cattle feeding as the meat-packing industry has shifted westward. Farm residents in the 1990s account for less than 2 percent of the nationalpopulation. In the Middle West today, to be a "farm resident" no longer means what it once did: although nearly two-thirds of the men work primarily on the farm, nearly three-fourths of farm women are principally employed elsewhere. Many farmers have left the land and abandoned the "traditional" farm, but those who remain have been even more productive. The typical Corn Belt farm has disappeared, replaced by a small cluster of metal buildings surrounding a suburban tract home. John C. Hudson takes us to the heart of the Corn Belt and captures the essence of this most American region.
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 405-420
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: Focus on geography, Band 54, Heft 2, S. 60-69
ISSN: 1949-8535
In: Agricultural economic report 80
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 88, Heft 4, S. 930-946
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In: Occasional contributions from the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan 14
In: North central journal of agricultural economics: NCJAE, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 65
In: Social science journal: official journal of the Western Social Science Association, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 411-412
ISSN: 0362-3319
In: Gegenwartskunde: Zeitschrift für Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Bildung, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 465-476
ISSN: 0016-5875