Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The successful farmer today must understand enough engineering and science to participate in a technological upheaval that is changing the very shape of the land and the nature of his crops. Says Lawrence Rappaport, chairman of the department of vegetable crops at the University of California at Davis: "Agriculture is...
Because of the technological revolution, one farmer in the U.S. now feeds 59 people. Elsewhere, the ratio of total population to the number of farmers and farm laborers is 19.2 in Western Europe, 13.7 in Japan, a mere 10 in the Soviet Union. U.S. agriculture feeds people well and cheaply...
At home, the necessity for the successful farmer to become a financier-salesman-engineer-scientist has accelerated a rural social revolution. Former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz vigorously preached the virtues of large-scale efficient farming, a message often translated in the croplands into five blunt words: Get big or...
The 30% of U.S. farms classified as medium-sized or large take in no less than 90% of all cash receipts from agriculture. At the top of the scale, farms grossing $100,000 a year or more are increasing ?to 162,000 last year, from 23,000 in 1960...
This sharp dissent to the "get big or get out" philosophy comes from, of all people, David Garst, 52, the ruler of a family agribusiness empire big enough to make him a prairie Rockefeller. Based in Coon Rapids, Iowa, the business includes 8,000 acres on which the Garsts raise...