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This blessed earth : a year in the life of an American family farm

text This blessed earth : a year in the life of an American family farm

Summary
"The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passi... Read more
Contents
Prologue: Readying the bin -- Part one: Bringing in the beans -- Interlude: Working cows -- Part two: The homeplace -- Interlude: Branding calves -- Part three: Seeds of change -- Interlude: The poker run -- Part four: Irrigation nation -- Interlu... Read more
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226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company 2017

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 630 GEN in Adult Non-fiction Available

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