http://www.agroleads.com B2B Commodity Trade Leads, Business Market Place and Consumer Shopping Online. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:27:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.agroleads.com/industrializing-the-corn-belt-agriculture-technology-and-environment-1945-1972-reviews http://www.agroleads.com/industrializing-the-corn-belt-agriculture-technology-and-environment-1945-1972-reviews#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:42:43 +0000 admin http://www.agroleads.com/industrializing-the-corn-belt-agriculture-technology-and-environment-1945-1972-reviews Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945-1972 From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, farmers in the Corn Belt transformed their region into a new, industrial powerhouse of large-scale production, mechanization, specialization, and efficiency. Many farm experts and implement manufacturers had urged farmers in this direction for decades, but it was the persistent labor shortage and cost-price squeeze following WWII that prompted farmers to pave the way to industrializing agriculture. Anderson examines the changes in Iowa, a representative state of the Corn Belt, in order to explore why farmers adopted particular technologies and how, over time, they integrated new tools and techniques. In addition to the impressive field machinery, grain storage facilities, and automated feeding systems were the less visible, but no less potent, chemical technologies antibiotics and growth hormones administered to livestock, as well as insecticide, herbicide,.... 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