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Download full textDepartment of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Office of Governmental and Public Affairs. – 1977
This booklet provides information on corn and hog farming on a small farm through a profile of a farm family. According to the profile, John and Mary Miller and their three children are a comfortable family operating a corn and hog farm in Iowa. John, the principal farmer, uses a variety of skills in management, veterinary science, soil science,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Skills, Animal Husbandry
Conger, Rand D.; Elder, Glen H., Jr. – 1994
In Iowa in the 1980s, dreams of prosperity were suddenly replaced by economic nightmares as plummeting land values generated economic decline and dislocation in rural communities and individual lives. This book examines the experience of over 400 Iowa families who lived through the Great Farm Crisis and now face an uncertain future. Interviewed as…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
