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

by Gary Holthaus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813124190
• ISBN13: 9780813124193
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher