The Changing Scale of American Agriculture

by John Fraser Hart

Few Americans know much about contemporary farming, which has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. In The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, the award-winning geographer and landscape historian John Fraser Hart describes the transformation of farming from the mid-twentieth century, when small family farms were still viable, to the present, when a farm must sell at least $250,000 of farm products each year to provide an acceptable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922291
• ISBN13: 9780813922294
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"