Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23854
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Via "Purdue News," Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. 4 pages., "Old versus new" dimensions of agriculture, as identified by Purdue University agricultural economist Michael Boehlje.
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."
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.
Reed Business Information, US, via LexisNexis Academic. 3 pages., Feature on Klinkenborg's career and orientation, including op-ed pieces in the New York Times on nature and rural living.
Agrarian values traditionally have been linked with farm families. Using data from a survey of Wisconsin farm spouses, this article explores the relationship between the identification of farm husbands and farm wives with agrarian values and related sex role orientations and position in the social structure of agriculture. As in previous studies, a commercial/refugist dimension of variation in agrarian identities was found. Depending on the structure of farm household organization, there also was substantial support for a much wider range of agrarian and non-agrarian identities than previously supposed. This was particularly so for farm wives. The change from lifestyles dependent on farming activities to those not dependent on agriculture has been central to the growing diversity in farm spouse roles and self-perceptions. Future studies need to consider three distinctive sets of value-orientations associated with traditional business, and property-holding lifestyles. (author)
