Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains: Years of Readjustment, 1920-1990

by Mary W.M. Hargreaves

Book Overview

Grandiose plans for land retirement and expanded irrigation have been frequently proposed for the northern Great Plains, but they have not significantly affected agricultural practices in the region.

Those major readjustments to farming methods that did occur in the region evolved out of local initiative in response to drought and depression during the 1920s. With some refinements but few amendments, procedures remain basically the same today...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700605533
• ISBN13: 9780700605538
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"