From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture by Holthaus, Gary

From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813192260)

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From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture by Holthaus, Gary

From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture

$27.95
From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture by Holthaus, Gary

From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture

$27.95
Format: Paperback
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As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would increase both efficiency and yield, or so we thought. The directions taken by technology may have worked for a while, but the same technologies that give us an advantage also create disadvantages. It's now a common story in rural America: pesticides, fertilizers, "big iron" combines, and other costly advancements may increase speed but also reduce effi

Author: Gary Holthaus
ISBN-10: 0813192269
ISBN-13: 9780813192260
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
By Gary Holthaus
By Gary Holthaus
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Gary Holthaus is the author of several books, including Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West, Circling Back, and Unexpected Manna.

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