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- catalog abstract "Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial farming takes over. Then revailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economics reasons. But will they? Possibly not, if current policies are not altered, say Marty Strange. This timely book exposes the biases in American farm policies that irrationally encourage expansiona bias evident in federal commodity programs, income tax provisions, and subsidized credit services. The farm financial crisis of the 1980s is a result of this trend toward bigness. As family farms are transformed, they become more specialized, more capital-intensive, and less resilient to the inherently unstable conditions in agriculture. Financial risks are therefore greater, and public assistance to expanding farms is more frequent and costly. Family Farming also exposes internal conflicts, particularly the conflict between the private interests of individual farmers and the public interest in family farming as a whole. It challenges the assumption that bigger is better, critiques the technological base of modern agriculture, and calls for farming practices that are ethical, economical, and ecologically sound. The alternative policies discussed in this book could yet save the family farm. And the ways and means of saving it are argued here with special urgency.".
- catalog contributor b2199836.
- catalog created "c1988.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "c1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1988.".
- catalog description "Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial farming takes over. Then revailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economics reasons. But will they? Possibly not, if current policies are not altered, say Marty Strange. This timely book exposes the biases in American farm policies that irrationally encourage expansiona bias evident in federal commodity programs, income tax provisions, and subsidized credit services. The farm financial crisis of the 1980s is a result of this trend toward bigness. As family farms are transformed, they become more specialized, more capital-intensive, and less resilient to the inherently unstable conditions in agriculture. Financial risks are therefore greater, and public assistance to expanding farms is more frequent and costly. Family Farming also exposes internal conflicts, particularly the conflict between the private interests of individual farmers and the public interest in family farming as a whole. It challenges the assumption that bigger is better, critiques the technological base of modern agriculture, and calls for farming practices that are ethical, economical, and ecologically sound. The alternative policies discussed in this book could yet save the family farm. And the ways and means of saving it are argued here with special urgency.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 291-301.".
- catalog description "Chapter 1: Farm Crisis Again -- Chapter 2: Industrializing American Agriculture -- Chapter 3: Land, the Central Issue -- Chapter 4: A Tale of Three Farms -- Chapter 5: The Myth That Bigger is Better -- Chapter 6: Chasing the Myth: Big-Farm Blues -- Chapter 7: Living the Myth -- Chapter 8: The Market Trinity: Land, Prices, and Technology -- Chapter 9: Technology: Getting Control of the Farm -- Chapter 10: Within Family Farming.".
- catalog extent "xi, 311 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Family farming.".
- catalog identifier "0803241569 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Family farming.".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "c1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; San Francisco : Insitute for Food and Development Policy,".
- catalog relation "Family farming.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "338.1/6 19".
- catalog subject "Agricultural innovations United States.".
- catalog subject "Agriculture Economic aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Agriculture and state United States.".
- catalog subject "Family farms United States.".
- catalog subject "HD1476.U5 S86 1988".
- catalog tableOfContents "Chapter 1: Farm Crisis Again -- Chapter 2: Industrializing American Agriculture -- Chapter 3: Land, the Central Issue -- Chapter 4: A Tale of Three Farms -- Chapter 5: The Myth That Bigger is Better -- Chapter 6: Chasing the Myth: Big-Farm Blues -- Chapter 7: Living the Myth -- Chapter 8: The Market Trinity: Land, Prices, and Technology -- Chapter 9: Technology: Getting Control of the Farm -- Chapter 10: Within Family Farming.".
- catalog title "Family farming : a new economic vision / Marty Strange.".
- catalog type "text".