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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"family farm"”.
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Cultivation for Generations: A Family Farm House in Blacksburg Virginia
… of one design project; a multi-generational family farm house in Blacksburg, Virginia. The relationship between ideas of courtyard and farmyard, as joined and segregated spaces, is one level of exploration. Another is the relationship between such spaces, joined and segregated, within the …
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Savior of the family farm? : the role of community supported agriculture for farm sustainability in California
This report analyzes the success factors of small farms, as defined by the amount of acreage in farming, the market value of agricultural products sold, and the number of small farms, in rural California Counties. These data are then compared with the location of Community Supported Agriculture …
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Uncle Sam on the Family Farm: Farm Policy and the Business of Southern Agriculture, 1933-1965
<p>This dissertation examines federal farm policy between 1933 and 1965 and its implementation in North and South Carolina. It argues that restricted economic democracy in the Farm State - the full array of agriculture regulations, programs, and agencies associated with the federal government - …
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Environment, Economics, and Family Farm Systems: Farm Expansion and Adaptation on the Western Slopes of Andean Ecuador (Cultural Ecology)
This study assesses the popularity of multizonal farming on the western slopes of Andean Ecuador. It is based on 18 months of fieldwork in a multiethnic area of Bolivar Province known as Llullundongo, where the sale and expropriation of estates in the first part of this century allowed for farm …
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Agents of fundamental policy change?: political strategies of the environmental, sustainable agriculture, and family farm groups in the 1990 farm bill
… and policy impacts of the environmental, family farm, and sustainable agriculture groups in the 1990 farm bill legislation. In spite of "genuine" interest in a fundamental policy reform, and in spite of a common agenda, the three different types of interest groups mostly opted for …
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Agricultural revolutions in America’s heartland: the corn belt and the making of American capitalism
<p>The family farm has been the foundation of America’s cheap food model. This research examines how cheap food from the Corn Belt was produced from 1840s to the late twentieth century. It investigates how the interrelationships between family farming, proletarianization-housewifization, and …
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Evaluation of the unique challenges facing family farms in South Africa
… landscape of most nations remains dominated by family businesses. Therefore, it is fitting that academia has begun to recognise the importance of family business studies. Family businesses are here to stay. Families who work together and live together face certain unique challenges that other …
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Personal Jesus and Other True Stories
… of essays about my Catholic upbringing, family relationships, struggles with depression, and my spiritual journey as a search for emotional healing. These stories, written in loosely braided formats, take place in such settings as the family farm in Missouri where my mother grew up, a …
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From Knowledge to Invention: Exploring User Innovation in Irish Agriculture
… System with innovations provided by others for farmers to adopt. The motivators for farmers who invent useful products for themselves, without outside involvement, are not well understood in such developed countries. These inventions, often shared with other farmers rather than introduced to the …
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Development of a family agribusiness transition planning tool
This research identifies common family farm characteristics, outlines the various elements of succession planning, and describes the motivations and objectives surrounding the composition of a succession plan. Business, retirement, and estate planning elements were integrated to develop a …
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Population dynamics and succession strategies of rural industry producers
Sheep farming in Australia has a long tradition, built up over several generations, of inheritance of the family farm, the occupation of sheep farming and the personal identity around being a sheep farmer. This tradition appears to be under threat, due to a combination of hard times and the …
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Virginia Farmer Retirement and Transition Planning
This study focuses on determining how Virginia farmers are planning for farm retirement and succession and whether they will be financially prepared for their retirement years. The Virginia farming population is aging, life expectancy is increasing, and Social Security benefits are not a stable …
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Impulsion
… up in Iowa and my connection to working on the family farm. These objects have the potential to exhibit elements of both simplicity and complexity, expressed through patterns and harmony, and the repetition of form, line, color, space, presentation, and ultimately, their relation to you the …
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Plant Medicine: The Use of Medicinal Plants as Green Manures in the Treatment of Streptomyces scabies Infection and Potato Scab Disease
… Treatments were designed to mimic home garden/family farm type operations and were applied as a single layer of rough chopped plant material coverage directly along with potato tubers within the planted rows. These treatments consisted of calendula, comfrey, and a calendula/comfrey mixture. In …
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High Spirits - With an accompanying exegesis - Behind Dry Ink in Set Patterns
… with Rose at thirteen running away from the family farm to Perth. The novel has six flashbacks in the first third to tell the story of how the parents adopted and treated her: her adoptive mother was unbalanced and her adoptive father was a weak man. When she arrives in Perth, the buildings …
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Qualidade fisiológica das sementes de duas variedades de milho submetidas ao controle químico de plantas daninhas
… intake, activity and occupation as the manpower family farm. The objective of this study was assessing the quality of seeds of two varieties of maize subjected to application of herbicides in two different doses. The evaluations were performed at the Laboratory of Seed Analysis, from Department …
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The unsettled settler: personal and discursive tragedy in Alexandra Fuller's memoirs
… and told a similar story of the loss of their family farm. Written from her home in Wyoming in the United States, Fuller's work forms part of a white expatriate culture that writes home to Africa from a different continent. Previous works have failed to address the theme of settler colonialism …
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