Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08686
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Pages 43-66 in William Ascher and John M. Heffron (eds.), Cultural change and persistence: new perspectives on development. Palgrave McMillan, New YorkCity, New York. 263 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23918
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Prairie Writers Circle of The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas. 3 pages., Author offers 10 reasons why he thinks agrarianism has something to offer contemporary Americans, "with or without dirt under their fingernails."
USA: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21249
Notes:
Examines public issues related to farm size, ownership structure, labor, soil conservation, food supply, others. Includes a discussion (p. 99-106) about the inadequacy of the statement, "I speak for the farmers." Cites Prof. J.E. Boyle in the North American Review who once described farmers as the most organized Americans. Said Boyle: "Farming is not one business but an infinite tangle of competing businesses."
Kirschenmann, Frederick (author / Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture) and Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2002-04-25
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23919
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Written for a conference considering Wendell Berry's Unsettling of America 25 years later, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., April 25-27, 2002. 15 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26478
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324 pages., Author documents ways in which agriculture and rural culture stirs the artistic impulse, in many forms. Examines evidence in art, literature, farm magazines, rural radio, country music.
