Agricultural machinery

“Get big or get out” shook our nation in the 1970s as the ‘agribusiness’ boom spread in sweeping waves. Planting from “fence row to fence row” dandelions was replaced by corn and soybeans. Hands were replaced with complicated machines, time was replaced with fertilizers and varied crops by pesticides. Soil and worms were degraded to dust. Cows grazing in open pasture were replaced by concentrated-animal feedlot operations (CAFOs). Farm houses and barns were abandoned, burned to the ground,…

previously described, the federal government passed the Soil Conservation Act to plant more trees and grasses to conserve the amount of soil being lost in the wind. Another governmental implementation to assist the Dust Bowl was made through the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act that gave of $200 million dollars to help refinance mortgages of farmers under foreclosure. Other acts included the Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act that restricted the ability…

Ford and the Model T capitalized on the growth of aggregate income and subsequently the increased demand for leisure and personal transportation. From textiles to automobiles, global integration launched a race to create cutting-edge technology and machinery to transform existing industries and challenge the standard way of life. However, this upward spiral of economic expansion required an agglomeration of raw resources and manpower that would later forge the destiny of World War…

Revolution is not something that is made by political elites, but instead by customary individuals when they change the way they think and live. Social revolution is simply an adjustment in the way we experience our lives. It springs from changes in the way we think. "Social transformations are uncommon and trans-developmental occasions that on a very basic level adjust class structures, states associations, and predominant belief systems" (Skocpol). Economic revolution is a rapid change in the…

evolved from a disconnected open space to a place where towns and cities would soon be constructed along the rail lines of the transcontinental railroad. Chinese laborers had a significant impact on the transcontinental railroad which resulted in the agricultural modernization, and the urbanization of the economics in the west of U.S. 1 The completion of the transcontinental railroad and the western economic prosperity that followed the nation would not have been possible without…

Globalization means the process whereby geographical distance becomes a less important factor in the establishment and development of cross-border economic, political and socio-cultural relations. Networks of relationships and dependencies acquire a growing potential to become international and world-wide. Initially globalization was seen as a widening, deepening and accelerating of the interconnection on a worldwide scale of all aspects of contemporary social life, from culture to criminality,…

It's hard to imagine that in the Year of the 1850's the United States of America was only an agricultural powerhouse -- with most of the country, if not all, a land of farms and small towns with a demographic fewer than one in five Americans living in urban areas. While England was rapidly industrializing, Americans were contented to make their living on farms as the land was cheap and labor was scarce and costly; hardly an ideal factor to start a living using man power. However, between the…

in today. Our demand for meat, dairy, population, and production have put a stress on our natural resources. Agriculture is not only an interesting process but it is also a very important one as well. The more that our population grows the more agricultural farming is necessary for the survival of our society, especially since our population is increasing at an extremely high rate. For our current…

of the national economy. Three years after starting the treaty, the trade deficit grew in the Dominican Republic with the United States. Only in the first quarter of 2010, it increased 54.1% over the same period of 2009. In the case of trade in agricultural and agro-industrial products between the two countries, the imports increased and the Dominican deficit also increased. In 2006, when he was not yet in effect of the NAFTA, the Dominican Republic exported to the United States approximately…

tradition. Corn was introduced to the Europeans during the age of exploration. Being that corn required warmth to be able to grow many European countries adopted it as a summer crop. However, there was such a great demand for it that they came up with agricultural techniques to be able to produce more. By the late twentieth century, corn ranked third among…