{"product_id":"cattle-beet-capital-michael-weeks-9781496208415","title":"Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado","description":"In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado Territory. Their planned agricultural community, which they named Greeley, was centered around small landholdings, shared irrigation, and a variety of market crops. One hundred years later, Greeley was the home of the world's largest concentrated cattle-feeding operation, with the resources of an entire region directed toward manufacturing beef. How did that transformation happen? \u003ci\u003eCattle Beet Capital\u003c\/i\u003e is animated by that question. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Expanding outward from Greeley to all of northern Colorado, \u003ci\u003eCattle Beet Capital \u003c\/i\u003eshows how the beet sugar industry came to dominate the region in the early twentieth century through a reciprocal relationship with its growers that supported a healthy and sustainable agriculture while simultaneously exploiting tens of thousands of migrant laborers. Michael Weeks shows how the state provided much of the scaffolding for the industry in the form of tariffs and research that synchronized with the agendas of industry and large farmers. The transformations that led to commercial feedlots began during the 1930s as farmers replaced crop rotations and seasonal livestock operations with densely packed cattle pens, mono-cropped corn, and the products pouring out of agro-industrial labs and factories. Using the lens of the northern Colorado region, \u003ci\u003eCattle Beet Capital \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates the historical processes that made our modern food systems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Weeks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496208412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496208415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2023","brand":"Michael Weeks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44053070151935,"sku":"9781496208415","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_573d2c0f-534e-427d-85b5-0d971d5c0c37.jpg?v=1685022227","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cattle-beet-capital-michael-weeks-9781496208415","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}