Golden Age of US Agriculture

Stephanie A. Mercier and Steve A. Halbrook ()
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Stephanie A. Mercier: Farm Journal Foundation
Steve A. Halbrook: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Chapter Chapter 8 in Agricultural Policy of the United States, 2020, pp 117-126 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The first two decades of the twentieth century are often called the Golden Age of US agriculture. The frontier was settled. The population and demand for food were increasing. The agricultural productivity revolution was still on the horizon. Times were good on the farm. This chapter traces the principal policy developments of the era from Theodore Roosevelt’s Country Life Commission and the rise of the conservation movement to World War I. The end of the war reduced demand and agricultural prices dropped. The final section of this chapter explores the initial efforts to formulate a government policy to raise farm income.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_8

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