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Agriculture and the Family Farm

"While farmers have always had to face numerous challenges in trying to make a living, be it by having to contend with the weather, pests, low prices and countless other farming-type problems, it is a 'natural' circumstance. These type adversities go with the territory, they are to be expected. However, once government got involved in agriculture it created an unnatural environment... one which became increasingly contorted. It became ripe for deviousness." (paragraph from our article American Agriculture and the Family Farm)

Of course, aside from being the most important industry worldwide, of monumental proportions, there is more to the story of agriculture...

Our complete list of agricultural articles

Last A.O. Kime article posted (revised April 2008): Farm Policies and the Undoing of an Arizona Farmer
Last guest article posted (January 2007): History of peach trees and History of blueberries

A.O. Kime articles:
American Agriculture and the Family Farm
Betrayal of Family Farmers and Farmstead Ideals
Biocontrol Agents for Organic Farming… the terminology
Biological Oddities of a Transcendental Nature
CECA (Cochise Energy Consumers Association)
DDT Insecticide Ban… What Was the Truth Behind it?
Farm Policies and Treachery of Farmland Administration
Farm Policies and the Undoing of an Arizona Farmer
Farm Subsidy System Fell Victim to Mission Creep
Kansas Settlement, Arizona... a farming community

Guest articles:
Benefits Of Agricultural Biotechnology
Europe's Agricultural Revolution
History of Introduced Fruits into America
History of blueberries
History of date palms
History of fig Trees
History of peach trees
History of pecans
History of plum trees
Winning the European CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)

Arizona agribusiness directories - more than a dozen categories
Gardening section - includes the identification of common insect pests, beneficial insects and soil information
Farm facts & inventions - bits and pieces about American agriculture since the 1930's

For info on Genetically Modified Food see DW World
To learn about genetically modified organisms see GMO's

Looking for an agricultural consultant? See Kime & Associates - serving the southwest since 1970

Last modified: 02/01/12