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Americans in Agriculture: Portraits of Diversity. 1990 Yearbook of Agriculture

机译:美国农业:多样性的肖像。 1990年农业年鉴

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The 1990 Yearbook is about the people of American agriculture--their jobs, their lives, their goals, and their families. Part I provides an overview of who works in the U.S. food and fiber sector, and key facts about American farmers, farms, and farmworkers. Part II introduces farmers from dozens of States from New England to the West Coast, and from the Deep South to the Midwest. Their stories reveal something of what farmers are up against--the insects, the weather, the markets, the plain hard work involved in producing food and other agricultural products--as well as the satisfactions that some farmers get from their livelihood and lifestyles. Beyond production agriculture, the business of agriculture employs about 16 million Americans who provide the inputs, processing, wholesaling, retailing, banking, and other business functions of agriculture. Part III gives us details on several business functions. Science and education are crucial to American agriculture. Part IV tells the stories of several scientists delving into the mysteries of how nature works. Education in agriculture is a never-ending process from elementary school to adult education. Part V presents a few of the millions of Americans studying in such programs as Ag in the Classroom, 4-H, FFA, high school agriculture classes, colleges and universities, the Cooperative Extension System, and Walt Disney World in Florida. Government workers--local, State, and Federal--play an important role in supporting agriculture, and many of them depend on the active support of volunteers to be effective. Part VI provides us with their portraits.

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