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Books on: family farming

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Family Farming: A New Economic Vision

Book by Marty Strange; University of Nebraska Press, 1988

Subjects:

Agricultural Innovations--United States, Agriculture And State--United States, Agriculture--Economic Aspects--United States, Family Farms--United States

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...Resource conserving . Family farms conserve resources...of farms in a family farming system is, in principle...its worst, the family farming system tolerates resource...are headed. That pure family farming never came to...The myth of family farming also offers a basis from...
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Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest

Book by Jack Temple Kirby, Sonya Salamon; University of North Carolina Press, 1992

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Family Farms--Middle West, Farm Life--Middle West, Rural Families--Middle West

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...That generations of the family have farmed the same...significance to yeoman families. "Ive spent my whole...ownership assures the family security. An elderly...a multigenerational family. Explained a retired...like owning land and farming it so we would have...to give the kids." Families therefore make an effort...
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Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California

Book by Julie Guthman; University of California Press, 2004

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Organic Farming--California

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...breakdown of the grain-based family farming unit, which had been compelled...Marty Stranges 1988 book, Family Farming: A New Economic Vision. Because...farm and practicing ecological farming methods, the farmer-owner will...
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Neolithic Farming in Central Europe: An Archaeobotanical Study of Crop Husbandry Practices, C.5500-2200 BC

Book by Amy Bogaard; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Agriculture, Prehistoric--Europe, Central, Agriculture--Europe, Central--Origin, Bandkeramik Culture--Europe, Central, Europe, Central--Antiquities, Neolithic Period--Europe, Central, Plant Remains (Archaeology)--Europe, Central

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Ethnographic data suggest that a farming family can cultivate c . 2-4 ha by...labour capacities of ethnographic farming families practising hand cultivation...greatly increase the area a farming family could cultivate (Halstead 1995...
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Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming

Book by Eric Ramz-Ferrero; Columbia University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Agriculture--Economic Aspects--Oklahoma, Farmers--Oklahoma--Psychology, Suicide--Oklahoma

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...concern is with saving the family farm. They understand family farming as a tradition that is worth...the problem- atic of family farming, he argues, tends to divert...and influence, divergent farming strategies. Perhaps the greatest...

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Journal Articles on: family farming

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Family Ranching and Farming: a Consensus Management Model to Improve Family Functioning and Decrease Work Stress

Journal article by Toni Schindler Zimmerman, Robert J. Fetsch; Family Relations, Vol. 43, 1994

Subjects:

Families & family life, Family counseling, Farming, Psychology, Ranches, Social research

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...stay involved with the family ranch, to decrease ranch families work stress, to promote their positive family functioning, and to...In North America, farming and ranching are two...and if ranch and farm families continue to experience...Businesses or Complex Family Systems? In this century, information on farming in the United States...
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The Persistence of Family Farming: A Review of Explanatory Socio-Economic and Historical Factors

Journal article by Mieke Calus, Guido Van Huylenbroeck; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 41, 2010

Subjects:

Agriculture--Analysis, Family farms--Forecasts and trends, Family farms--Management, Social economics--Research, Socioeconomics--Research

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...shareholders whether they have family ties or not. Besides...exist of course other farming structures such as cooperative farming (in which different families work together within...structure), collective farming and state farming. However...
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Above All, Farming Means Family Farming: Context for Introducing the Articles in This Special Issue

Journal article by Bruno Hildenbrand, Charles B. Hennon; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 36, 2005

Subjects:

European Community, Family--Psychological aspects, Family--Research, Farms--Research, Farms--Social aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...this article. THE FAMILY FARM AS WAY OF...TRADITION Why do farming families--admittedly...in understanding family farming. Hennon and Hildenbrand...present how some families are able to retain...The Family of the Family Business. Heidelberg...Modernisierungsprozess Farming Families in the Process...
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Challenges to Family Farming in Chine [*

Journal article by Gregory Veeck, Wang Shaohua; Vol. 90, 2000

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China--Agriculture, Family farms--China, Jiangsu, China--Agriculture

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...How, then, have family farm strategies and...If so, how do these families pollute or cause environmental...PLUS REFORM ERA Farming as a way of life has...a specialization in family farming that did not exist...The hardships of farming caused by nature and...remind farmers that farm families pay minimal rent...
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Changes in Family and Marriage in a Yangzi Delta Farming Community, 1930-1990 (1)

Journal article by Eugene T. Murphy; Ethnology, Vol. 40, 2001

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Changjiang River Region--Social aspects, Family--Research, Kinship--Research, Marriage--Social aspects, Social structure--Research

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...marriage in a Yangzi Delta farming community, 1930...pseudonym), a rice-farming community on the Yangzi...hierarchy. (Marriage, family, kinship, social...and as long as a few families served as examples...years seed. Annual family incomes from quota...has increased some families incomes by another...work in addition to farming. Total annual household...

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Magazine Articles on: family farming

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Special Use Value Not Jeopardized by Cash Lease to Family Farming Corporation

Magazine article; The CPA Journal, Vol. 64, June 1994

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Estate taxes, Federal court decisions, Internal Revenue Code, Leases, Recapture rules, Section 2032A, Tax elections, United States, Valuation

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...Not Jeopardized by Cash Lease to Family Farming Corporation A recent Circuit Court...reported value of real estate held for farming or other family business purposes...farm had been leased to a family farming corporation for decades. This...
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Family Forests: Loving Care, Heavy Burdens

Magazine article by Jane Braxton Little; American Forests, Vol. 105, Winter 2000

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Careers, Conservation, Families & family life, Farming, Regulation, Taxes, Trees

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...legacy and quitting tree farming altogether. Most persevere...arent careful, the family farm will become an...nonindustrial forests. Families like the Freemans and...ownership of their family forest to a limited...soars and the cost of farming forests climbs, the...when both property and families are increasingly fragmented...professions offer. Like most family forestland owners...
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Daher's Vineyard: a Bethlehem Christian Family Struggles to Keep the Family Farm

Magazine article by Fred Strickert; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 23, January 2004

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Agriculture, Families & family life, Farming, International, International relations, Israel, Landowners, Palestinian territories, Palestinians, Politics, Territorial issues, Wineries & vineyards

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Supreme Court has in fact granted the family an additional 45 days to present this...all this presents a dilemma for the family. The expert testimony and attorneys...money-all at a time when Palestinian families are facing economic crisis. Yet for a family facing the possible loss of land, there...
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Farming on the Fringe

Magazine article by Jeff Onsted; The Next American City, 2006

Subjects:

Competition, Contracts, Environmental economics, Farmers, Farming, Farms, Farmworkers, Landowners, Market value, Opportunity costs, Property taxes, Rural sociology, Tax assessments, Tax revenues, Taxation, Urban areas

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...Economics is what drives the farming business!" Before accusing...generations were less interested in farming than their parents, a trend...by the third generation, a family farm usually has owners living...rapidly disappearing due to poor farming practices that erode topsoil...
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Farming the Concrete Jungle

Magazine article by Phoebe Connelly, Chelsea Ross; In These Times, Vol. 31, September 2007

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Agriculture, Cities, Farmers, Farming, Natural & organic foods, Social conditions & trends, United States, Urban areas

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Farming the Concrete Jungle by Phoebe...Danielle Andrews, who heads up farming for Food Projects Dorchester...how to do this. I remember farming when I was five with my grandmother...which estimates that if every family in Maine spent $10 a week...

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Newspaper Articles on: family farming

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The Secret Ingredient of My Success; One of the West Midlands's Most Successful Entrepreneurs Has Been Presented with an Honorary Doctorate. Tom Scotney Speaks to Tony Deep Wouhra, the Founder and Controller of East End Foods about Family, God and Organic Farming

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 25, 2010

Subjects:

Agricultural industry, Businesspeople, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Organic farming

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...about Family, God and Organic Farming. Byline: Tom Scotney What...his passion for organic farming and of course, the help his...his family in India. So the family of the aspiring youngster...business stories - the extended family. He says: "I came here...Financial and labour support from families and friends, a closer understanding...
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Dairy Farming Family Develops a Taste for the Local Cheese Trade

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 16, 2007

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Agriculture, Cheese, Dairy farming, Dairy farms, Dairy industry, Dairy products industry

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Dairy Farming Family Develops a Taste...Mail A welsh border farming family is diversifying...training, the Eyres family from Abertanat Farm...for farmers and their families run by Menter a Busnes...cheeses. The Eyres family is also busy working...two sons to stay in farming. Hes now the companys...
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Switch to Organic Serves Up Success for Farming Family

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 14, 2006

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Health foods industry, Natural foods industry, Organic farming

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to Organic Serves Up Success for Farming Family. Byline: By STEVE DUBE Success tastes sweet for a young farming couple from Montgomeryshire. Jonathan...although Jonathan said their farming methods meant they were already...
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Family Businesses of AMs Received Farming Subsidies; CAMPAIGNERS ATTACK TRIO FOR NOT DECLARING MONEY

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 14, 2011

Subjects:

Agricultural industry, Agricultural policy, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Family corporations, Family-owned business enterprises, Family-owned businesses

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Family Businesses of AMs Received Farming Subsidies; CAMPAIGNERS ATTACK TRIO...The politicians have spoken about farming subsidy issues in the Assembly...Brecknock." Her husbands family farming business DC Rees and Son received...
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Farming Families Show How to Diversify in Rural Communities

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 31, 2010

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Agricultural industry--Methods, Family--Methods

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Farming Families Show How to Diversify in...working farm and a thriving family business was an excellent...Margaret Llewellyn and their family. In any event Castell Carreg...materials created by traditional farming methods, avoiding the use...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: family farming

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Agriculture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...agriculture away from subsistence farming toward the growing of crops...various crops and the exchange of farming methods and products, such...more or less self-sufficient family farm became the norm in the...market gardening and truck farming . Harvesting operations (see...
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Greeley, Horace

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...weekly at East Poultney, Vt. When the paper failed, he went briefly to Erie co., Pa., where his impoverished farming family had moved. In Aug., 1831, he went to New York City, worked as a newspaper compositor, and in Jan., 1833...
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Millet, Jean FranÇois , 1814–75, French Painter

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

MILLET, JEAN FRANCOIS , 1814 75, French painter 1814 75, French painter. He was born into a poor farming family. In 1837 an award enabled him to go to Paris, where he studied with Delaroche . In 1849 he settled in Barbizon, where he executed...
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Deve Gowda, H. D

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Indian political leader, prime minister of India (1996 97), b. Haradanahalli, Karnataka, S India. A member of a farming family of intermediate caste, he was trained as a civil engineer and won his first seat in the Karnataka state assembly...
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Grant, Ulysses Simpson

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...excessive drinking. Grant failed in attempts at farming and business, and was working as a clerk in the family leather store in Galena, Ill., when the...1885 86) in order to provide for his family. He died a few days after the manuscript...

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