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PDF: The Farm in the Capitalist Industrial Agricultural System

Download 16 times Source: www.csafe.org.nz // Topic: Agriculture File Size: 288.26 kb // Total of Page: - Page(s) Last download by vijaylokhande Last download on: 2 months ago Share this info: Short Desciption: from the land-grant colleges to reform rural institutions to enable industrial agricultural production. The United States was ... Content Inside: FARM CRISIS OR AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM CRISIS? DEFINING NATIONAL PROBLEMS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY Leland Glenna Connell University INTRODUCTION leinman (1995) argues that "crises" offer sociologists unique opportunities to understand a societys tendencies because the people who assign the label to social conditions do so as they intensify efforts to make dramatic changes. The "farm crisis" of the 1980s fits this description because some agribusinesses and policy makers called for dramatic policy changes to address this `crisis, even though United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) data on the decline in farm numbers indicated that the `farm crisis was not as bad as in past decades.1 K A flow of newspaper stories in the 1980s described farm foreclosures and farmer hardships. A Christian Science Monitor headline in February of 1985 even described farm conditions in the United States as the worst since the 1930s Great Depression (Lyson 1986). Many policy makers, agribusinesses, economic analysts and farm