Cattle Beet Capital : Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado /

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"In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado territory. Their planned agricultural community, which they named Greeley, was centered around small landholdings, shared irrigation, and a variety of market...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weeks, Michael (Historian) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cattle trade.
Cattle > Feeding and feeds.
Beef industry.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Boeuf (Viande) > Industrie > Colorado.
Bovins > Alimentation > Colorado.
Beef industry > Colorado.
Cattle trade > Colorado.
Cattle > Feeding and feeds > Colorado.
Colorado.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1.
  • Cultivating a Regional Agroecology
  • 2.
  • Capitalism and Sustainable Farming
  • 3.
  • Beet Biology and the Nature of Labor
  • 4.
  • Piedmont Sugar and the State of Science
  • 5.
  • The Economics of Mechanization and Watershed Engineering
  • 6.
  • Building the Petrochemical Paradigm
  • 7.
  • Manufacturing Beef.

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