The target audience for Neil Dahlstrom’s book “Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester and the Birth of Modern Agriculture” is self-explanatory. I’m not part of it. During my six ...
In the early years of the century, 150,000 dairy farmers milked by hand and sold milk door to door. By the end of the century, the 15,000 that were left were breeding cows that increased yields by 400 ...
Introduction : the Nanticoke Valley in the early twentieth century -- Putting the barn before the house -- Women's place on the land -- "Buying a farm on a small capital" -- The transformation of ...
Many 20th-century farm buildings are being repurposed for diversification projects, but their conversion and change of use ...