March 1, 1785 - Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized.

1810 - Berkshire Agricultural Society (Massachusetts), led by Elkanah Watson, sponsored exhibition considered first of new fairs in America; competitive displays, informal learning opportunities, demonstrations, lectures, parades, celebrations; 13 historical, contemporary articles.

November 23, 1835 - Henry Burden, of Troy, NY, received a patent for "Making Horseshoes"; horseshoe manufacturing machine; made nearly all the horseshoes used by the Union calvary during the Civil War.

March 30, 1843 - Napoleon E. Guerin. of New York City, received a patent for an "Egg Hatching Apparatus" (mode of distributing steam heat, purifying air, etc."); egg incubator for hatching chickens by artificial heat.

October 8, 1850 - Alinzor Clark, of Southfield, NY, received a patent for a "Pitchfork" ("Improvement in Hay-Forks").

1853 - Richard King founded King Ranch in Texas.

1855 - Gustavus Franklin Swift opened cattle, pork butchering business with help of small loans from his family; 1875 - Swift and James A. Hathaway, business partner in Hathaway and Swift (butcher shop and slaughterhouse) set up shop in Chicago's Union Stock Yards; 1878 - dissolved partnership with Hathaway, formed Swift Bros and Company in partnership with younger brother Edwin; 1880 - Swift Refrigerator Line (SRL) created; 1881 - transported average of 3,000 carcasses a week to Boston; 1885 - incorporated in as Swift & Co. with $300,000 in capital stock and Gustavus Swift as president; revolutionized how meat was processed, delivered, and sold; 1920 - SRL owned and operated 7,000 ice-cooled rail cars; March 8, 1921 - Swift & Company registered "Swift's Premium" trademark first used on June 1, 1892 (Lard, Ham, Bacon, and Oleomargarin); 1930 - General American Transportation Corporation assumed ownership of the line; 1902 - Swift, fellow meat packers J. Ogden Armour and Edward Morris, investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb, and Company, created the National Packing Company for the purpose of fixing prices, dividing up markets, suppressing union efforts to organize industry workers; became known the "Meat Trust" and the "Big Four" of the meat packing industry; 1905 - U.S. Supreme Court ordered the monopoly to disband.

1858 - Henry Miller (born Heinrich Alfred Kreiser in Brackenheim, Germany), Charles W. Lux, immigrant butchers, formed partnership to sell beef during California Gold Rush; acquired massive land empire, owned over 1.25 million acres of land (stretched from California’s San Joaquin Valley across northwestern Nevada, northward over much of Oregon’s Harney County, Idaho’s Owhyee County into Blue Mountains of Baker and Grant counties, Oregon); 1889 - organized Pacific Live Stock Company; detested as "ruthless monopoly" to many of region’s smaller ranchers, newer residents.

March 2, 1858 - Frederick Cook, New Orleans, LA, received patent for a "Cotton Bale Tie" ("Improvement in Metallic Ties for Cotton Bales").

1867 - Philip (Danforth), Herman Armour founded Armour and Company in Chicago (Philip had previously been partner in1863 in Plankinton, Armour and Company in Milwaukee with John Plankinton); helped make Chicago center of  American meatpacking industry; 1891 - largest meat packer in country, controlled 30% of Chicago's grain supply; 1920s - acquired by Frederick H. Prince; 1948 - introduced Dial, first deodorant soap; October 23, 1951 - registered "Dial" trademark first used November 10, 1947 (bath and toilet soap); December 10, 1957 - registered "Armour" trademark first used in 1867 (fresh carcass meats and cuts thereof); 1973 - acquired by Dial Company (manufacturers of consumer products); 1983 - acquired by ConAgra Foods (continues to market processed meat under Armour name).

June 25, 1867 - Lucien B Smith of Kent, OH received a patent for "Wire Fence" ("improvement in the construction of a wire fence especially adapted to use in the prairies of the Western States where timber is scarce and fires frequently sweep over them, destroying everything that is combustible"); artificial "thorn hedge" (barbed wire) consisted of wire with short metal spikes twisted on by hand at regular intervals; met need to keep farmers' cattle safely away from crops; simpler twisted wire forms followed.

December 4, 1867 - Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founded the Grange (Order of the Patrons of Husbandry), a national organization to unify farmers; began primarily as a social organization designed to provide educational and recreational opportunities for farmers, it evolved into a major political force; the importance of including women; political activism resulted in legislation passed in five mid-western states known as the "Granger Laws" (provided crucial precedent for state and federal regulation of private enterprise for the "public interest", not very effective in solving the farmers' problems with the railroads and warehouses); played a key role in creating the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which called for the first federal regulation of railroads to control unfair shipping rates.

1869 - Samuel T. Alexander, Henry Perrine Baldwin bought 12 acres at Makawao, Maui, for $110, formed sugar growing partnership;1870 - added additional 559 acres; planted sugarcane; established Alexander & Baldwin; 1899 - acquired Maui’s two main railroad lines (Kahului Railroad Company, Maui Railroad & Steamship Company); 1900 - incorporated in Hawaii as Alexander & Baldwin, Limited; 1908 - invested $200,00 in Matson Navigation Company to ensure transportation of sugar to refinery on West Coast; 1949 - formed Kahului Development Co. to provide reasonably priced homes for plantation, railroad employees (more than 3,500 homes in Central Maui); 1969 - acquired remaining interests in Matson Navigation Company.

April 7, 1874 - Black American inventor Edward H. Sutton, of Edenton, NC, received patent for "Cotton-Cultivators".

November 24, 1874  - Joseph F. Glidden, of De Kalb, IL, farmer, received patent for "Wire-Fences", new design for a fencing wire with sharp barbs; used two strands of wire twisted together to hold the barbed spur wires firmly in place = cheapest, strongest, portable, most durable way to fence property for protection from grazing herds of cattle and sheep (vs. expensive and bulky wooden rails shipped by train and wagon from distant forests); suited to mass production; 1880 - more than 80 million pounds of inexpensive Glidden-style barbed wire was sold, most popular wire in the nation; era of the open-range cattle industry; February 25, 1885 - U.S. Congress condemned barbed wire around government grounds.

January 1, 1876 - Work began at the first regularly organized state agricultural experimental station in U.S. located in Middletown, CT; important discoveries: vitamin A (1913), hybrid corn, first soil fungicide (1889), fungus to control gypsy moth populations.

March 1, 1885 - Recognizing that future of state was in agriculture, Kansas legislature restricted movement of Texas cattle; passed law barring Texas cattle from state between March 1 and December 1; reflected love-hate relationship between Kansas and cattle industry; quarantine closed all of Kansas to Texan cattle for all but winter months of December, January, February (when diseases were not as prevalent);  laws signaled end of Kansas role in Texas cattle industry; laws became irrelevant as most Texans could more easily ship cattle via railheads in their own states.

March 30, 1886 - Black American inventor James Ricks, of Washington, DC, received patent for a "Horseshoe" ("Improvements in the "Rough-Shoeing of Horses"); an overshoe or sleet shoe clamped with a wire band over the ordinary shoe.

May 17, 1887 - Dennis W. Shorter, of Union Springs, NY, received a patent for a "Feed-Rack" ("improved animal feed-rack").

August 2, 1887 - Chester A. Hodge, of Beloit, WI, received  patent for "Barbed Fence" ("certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences...of that particular class known to the trade as the 'spur-wheel wire' or harmless wire fence").

June 6, 1899 - Black American inventor James Ricks, of Washington, DC, received a patent for an "Overshoe for Horses", a rubber horseshoe "to prevent a horse from slipping in sleety weather and to secure noiseless travel when preferred, and is applied over the horseshoe in common use."

November 2, 1912 - XIT Ranch sold last head of cattle; at its peak had more than 160,000 head of cattle, employed 150 cowboys, encompassed nearly 3 million acres of the Texas panhandle; 1950 - XIT controlled only 20,000 acres.

April 13, 1916 - Funk Brothers Seed Co., of Bloomington, Illinois sold first U.S. shipment of hybrid seed corn to Samuel Ramsay of Jacobsburg, OH for $15 a bushel.

August 3, 1921 - John Macready did first crop dusting; used airplane to dust a six acre grove in Troy, OH to kill caterpillars.

February 18, 1922 - President Warren Harding signed Capper-Volstead Act into law "to give to the farmer the same right to bargain collectively that is already enjoyed by corporations"; gave farmers right to band together without violating anti-trust laws; called "Magna Carta" of cooperatives in agriculture industry in enabling agricultural producers to collectively process, prepare, handle market their products.

1926 - Henry Agard Wallace (future Secretary of Agriculture under FDR), Jim Wallace (brother), several partners incorporated Hi-Bred Corn Company in Johnstown, IA, with $7,000 in capital; first Company for development, marketing of hybrid seed corn; 1935 - name changed to Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company (to distinguish it from other hybrid corn companies); 1970 - name changed to Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.; 1973 - went public; 1981 - market-share leader in North America corn sales; 1997 - 20% stake acquired by DuPont, formed joint venture called Optimum Quality Grains LLC; 1999 - remaining 80% acquired by DuPont for $7.7 billion.

1930 - Warren H. Monfort established feedlot business with 18 head of cattle in Greeley, CO; 1968 - first 100,000-head feedlot; 1969 - processed 645,214 lambs, 331,381 cattle in single year, sales of $157.6 million; 1971 - second generation took over, sales exceeded $400 million; 1973 - controlled entire meat production and distribution process; May1987 - acquired by ConAgra Food Inc. for $295.6 million.

May 12, 1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed Agricultural Adjustment Act into law - first major price support and acreage reduction program (voluntary agreements with producers); set parity as goal for farm prices; markets regulated through voluntary agreements with producers; processing taxes used to offset cost of program. Program authorized production adjustment programs that were a direct outgrowth of the experience of the Federal Farm Board; authorized use of marketing agreements and licenses, which had been used already by producers to promote orderly marketing of perishable fruits and vegetables; large quantities of surplus food were distributed to needy households and to school lunch programs.

April 7, 1934 - Congress passed the Jones-Connally Farm-Relief Act; effectively placed an expanded roster of farm products under the control of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) created in 1933; AAA was charged with delivering farmers from the woes of the Depression by slashing production and increasing prices; soon able to boost prices and incomes for larger-scale farmers (an extended drought also played a part in hiking crop prices); 1936 - Supreme Court deemed the legislation that had fostered the AAA unconstitutional, forced Congress to draft new plans for rescuing farmers.

October 20, 1970 - American agricultural pioneer Norman Borlaug awarded Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the "green revolution" - increased grain production throughout the Third World by perfecting and introducing new strains of wheat and rice crops. 

February 27, 1985 - Farmers converged in Washington to demand economic relief.

April 22, 1986 - U.S. Department of Agriculture approved the first virus produced with genetic engineering for use in a vaccine to fight a form of swine herpes.

2001 - Francis Childs, third-generation Iowa farmer, exceeded 400 bushels of corn/acre in controlled contest; first farmer ever; 2002 - 442 bushels/acre; most productive corn grower ever.

2007 - Average corn yields per acre rose to 153 bushels (crop size of 13.07 billion billion bushels) from 26.5 bushels per acre in 1932.

June 2008 - High tariffs, export restrictions = barriers to international agricultural trade.

Total World Trade: Since 1980 - trade in services, manufactured goods has tripled; trade in food, adjusting for inflation, has barely increased (convoluted tangle of restrictive rules - tariffs, quotas. subsidies).

2008 - Average Industry Imports of each WTO country:

(Source: World Trade Organization; World bank; Average applied tariff, as of 2006, on the value of products that a country offers to all other members the World Trade Organization on a 'most favored nation' basis; each country may allow lower tariffs as part of bilateral or regional arrangement)

July 2008 - Corn Production (almost 20% allocated to ethanol) (additional sources: Energy Information Administration, New York Times)

(Agway Inc.), John B. Babcock (1999). Farmboy: Hard Work and Good Times on a Farm That Helped Change Northeast Agriculture. (Ithaca, NY: DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, 240 p.). Babcock, H. E. (Howard Edward), 1889-1950; Agway Inc.--History; Agricultural economists--United States--Biography; Agriculture, Cooperative--Northeastern States--History.

(American Energy Farming Systems), Joseph A. Amato; foreword by Paul Gruchow (1993). The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 244 p.). American Energy Farming Systems; Horticultural products industry--United States. 

(Barbed Wire), Henry D. and Frances T. McCallum (1965). The Wire That Fenced the West. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 285 p.). Barbed wire; Wire fencing--History.

(Barbed Wire), Reviel Netz (2004). Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 267 p.). Barbed wire--Political aspects; Wire fencing--History; Wire obstacles--History; Concentration camps--History. 

(Beef), Louis F. Swift and Arthur Van Vlissingen (1927). The Yankee of the Yards; The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift. (New York, NY: A. W. Shaw company, 218 p.). Swift, Gustavus Franklin, 1839-1903; Meat industry and trade--United States.

(Beef), Robert Glass Cleland (1951). The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-1880. (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 365 p. [2nd ed.]). Professor of History (Occidental College). Cattle trade--California, Southern--History--19th century; Ranch life--California, Southern--History--19th century; California, Southern--History. Transition from cattle frontier of Mexican rule and culture to agricultural American community on eve of great industrial and urban expansion; conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and settlements, gradual displacement of frontier violence and instability by more restrained, law-abiding society, impact of Anglo-Saxon customs and institutions upon pastoral life of Spanish-Californians.

(Beef), Ramon Adams (1959). The Rampaging Herd; A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 463 p.). Cattle--West (U.S.)--Bibliography; Cattle trade--West (U.S.)--Bibliography; Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Bibliography.

(Beef), Lewis Eldon Atherton (1961). The Cattle Kings. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 308 p.). Cattle trade--West (U.S.); Cattle breeders--West (U.S.)--Biography; Ranch life--West (U.S.); West (U.S.)--Biography.

Richard Perren (1978). The Meat Trade in Britain, 1840-1914. (Boston, MA: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 258 p.). Meat industry and trade--Great Britain--History.

(Beef), Jimmy M. Skaggs (1986). Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607-1983. (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 263 p.). Meat industry and trade--United States--History; Cattle trade--United States--History; Stockyards--United States--History; Packing-houses--United States--History.

(Beef), J'Nell L. Pate (1988). Livestock Legacy: the Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887-1987. (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 332 p.). Tarrant County College. Stockyards--Texas--Fort Worth--History; Cattle trade--Texas--Fort Worth--History.

(Beef), Jeremy Rifkin (1992). Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. (New York, NY: Dutton, 353 p.). Beef cattle; Cattle; Beef industry; Beef; Beef industry -- Environmental aspects; Cattle trade -- West (U.S.) -- History; Beef -- Social aspects; Food habits.

(Beef), Ian MacLachlan (2001). Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain. (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 378 p.). Author provides in-depth and detailed account of the history and development of the production, distribution, processing and marketing of beef in Canada from the beginning to the present period. Cattle trade--Canada; Beef industry--Canada; Bovins--Commerce--Canada; Boeuf (Viande)--Industrie--Canada.

(Beef), Max Foran (2003). Trails & Trials: Markets and Land Use in the Alberta Cattle Industry, 1881-1948. (Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 317 p.). Cattle trade Alberta History; Beef industry Alberta History; Land use, Rural Alberta History.

(Beef), Ken Midkiff (2004). The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 222 p.). Clean Water Campaign Director, Sierra Club. Meat industry and trade--Environmental aspects--United States; Meat industry and trade--Health aspects--United States; Meat industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects--United States; Agricultural industries--United States. 

(Beef), J'Nell L. Pate (2005). America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels. (Fort Worth, TX: TCU Press, 225 p.). Stockyards--United States--History; Livestock--United States--Marketing.

(Beef), Richard Perren (2006). Taste Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 285 p.). Reader in Economic History (University of Aberdeen). Meat industry and trade--History; Meat industry and trade--Government policy. Food distribution in industrializing and post-industrial economies. interactions of producers, sellers consumers of meat across the world.

(J. G. Boswell Company), Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman (2003). The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire. (New York, NY: Public Affairs, 560 p.). Boswell, James Griffin; Boswell family; Pioneers--California--San Joaquin Valley--Biography; Cotton farmers--California--San Joaquin Valley--Biography; Businessmen--California--San Joaquin Valley--Biography; Cotton growing--California--San Joaquin Valley--History--20th century; San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--History--20th century; Agricultural industries--California--San Joaquin Valley--History--20th century; San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--Economic conditions--20th century; San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--Biography. Boswell owned more agricultural acreage, controlled more river water than any other land baron in the West, grew more cotton than anyone on the planet

(Thomas Borthwick and Sons), Godfrey Harrison (1963). Borthwicks; A Century in the Meat Trade, 1863-1963. (London, UK, 212 p.). Borthwick, Thomas, Sir, Bart., 1835-1912; Borthwick (Thomas) & Sons, ltd.

(Thomas Borthwick and Sons), Peter Norman (1998). Meat in the Sandwich: One Family's Involvement in a Major New Zealand Export Industry. (Greytown, NZ: Bowstring Press, 129 p.). Norman, Edward G. (Edward Gilbert), 1886-1963; Norman, Peter, 1924- ; Thomas Borthwick and Sons; Chief executive officers--New Zealand; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--New Zealand--History; Meat industry and trade--New Zealand--History.

(Brandt Consolidated), Kathleen Gilbert (2002). The History of Brandt Consolidated: 1953-2003. (Heritage Publishers: Phoenix, AZ, 64 p.). Brandt Consolidated; Fertilizers; Crop protection. 1953 - Glen Brandt and Evelyn Brandt Thomas established Brandt Fertilizer just west of New Berlin, IL.

(California Associated Raisin Company), Victoria Saker Woeste (1998). The Farmer’s Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 369 p.). California Associated Raisin Company; Agriculture, Cooperative--Law and legislation--United States--History; Raisin industry--Law and legislation--California--History. 

(Calcot Ltd.), Catherine M. Merlo (1995). Legacy of a Shared Vision: The History of Calcot. (Bakersfield, CA: Calcot Limited, 192 p.). Calcot Ltd. --History; Cotton trade --California --History; Cotton trade --Arizona --History. February 1927 - Frank Green organized cotton co-op in Delano, CA; 151 growers met, unanimously approved terms for co-op called San Joaquin Cotton Growers Association; 1953 - name changed to Calcot Ltd.; 1980s - U.S.A.'s largest cotton shipper.

(Canada Packers Ltd.), Canada Packers (1943). The Story of Our Products. (Kingston, ON: Jackson Press, 247 p.). Canada Packers; Meat industry and trade -- Canada.

(Chicopee Manufacturing Company), John Michael Cudd; foreword by Sidney Ratner (1974). The Chicopee Manufacturing Company, 1823-1915. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 325 p.). Chicopee Manufacturing Company; Cotton trade--United States--Case studies.

(J. L. Coker), James A. Rogers with Larry E. Nelson (1994). Mr. D.R.: A Biography of David R. Coker. (Hartsville, SC: Coker College Press, 361 p.). Coker, David Robert, 1870-1938; Businesspeople--South Carolina--Biography; Agriculture--South Carolina--History--20th century; South Carolina--Biography. 

(Cotton), David L. Cohn (1956). The Life and Times of King Cotton. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 286 p.). Cotton growing--United States; Cotton manufacture--United States; Cotton trade--United States.

(Cotton), Melvin Thomas Copeland (1966). The Cotton Manufacturing Industry of the United States. (New York, NY: A. M. Kelley, 415 p. [orig. pub. 1912]). Cotton manufacture--United States; Cotton trade--United States.

(Cotton), Compiled and ed. Stuart W. Bruchey (1967). Cotton and the Growth of the American Economy, 1790-1860; Sources and Readings. (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 276 p.). Cotton trade--United States; United States--Economic conditions.

(Cotton), Holland Thompson (1971). From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill; A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina. (Freeport, Y: Books for Libraries, 284 p. [Reprint of 1906 ed.]). Cotton trade--North Carolina; Cotton growing--North Carolina.

(Cotton), Susan Lee (1977). The Westward Movement of the Cotton Economy, 1840-1860: Perceived Interests and Economic Realities. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 269 p.). Cotton trade--United States--History; Slavery--Economic aspects--United States; Southern States--Economic conditions; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

(Cotton), Gavin Wright (1978). The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. (New York, NY: Norton, 205 p.). Cotton trade--Southern States--History; Southern States--Economic conditions.

(Cotton), Anthony Burton (1984). The Rise & Fall of King Cotton. (London, UK: A. Deutsch: BBC, 240 p.). Cotton textile industry--Great Britain--History; Cotton trade--India--History; Cotton textile industry--United States--History; Cotton trade--United States--History; Textile workers--Great Britain--History; Textile workers--United States--History; Slavery--United States.

(Cotton), John Hebron Moore (1988). The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770-1860. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 323 p.). Cotton trade--Mississippi--History; Plantation life--Mississippi--History; Slavery--Mississippi--History; Mississippi--Economic conditions.

(Cotton), Jack Lichtenstein (1990). Field to Fabric: The Story of American Cotton Growers. (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 331 p.). American Cotton Growers (Firm)--History; Cotton trade--United States--History.

(Cotton), Harold D. Woodman (2000). King Cotton & His Retainers; Financing & Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925. (Washington, DC: Beard Books, 386 p. [orig. pub. 1968]). Cotton trade--Southern States--History; Cotton trade--United States--History.

(Cotton), Martha L. Keber (2002). Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton: Christophe Poulain DuBignon of Jekyll Island. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 312  p.). DuBignon, Christophe Poulain, 1739-1825; Plantation owners--Georgia--Jekyll Island--Biography; Merchants--Georgia--Jekyll Island--Biography; Merchants--France--Biography; Nobility--France--Biography; Seafaring life--History--18th century; Commerce--History--18th century; Jekyll Island (Ga.)--Social life and customs--18th century; Jekyll Island (Ga.)--Social conditions--18th century; Jekyll Island (Ga.)--Biography.

(Dairy), Sonia Jones (1987). It All Began with Daisy. (New York, NY: Dutton, 237 p.). Jones, Sonia; Peninsula Farm (N.S.); Dairying--Nova Scotia--Lunenburg.

(Dairy), Walter E. Campbell (1996). Across Fortune's Tracks: A Biography of William Rand Kenan, Jr. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 417 p.). Kenan, William Rand, 1872-1965; Businessmen -- United States -- Biography; Dairy farmers -- United States -- Biography; Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.

(Daniel Mills & Sons Limited), Marian Robertson (1995). Rising Generations: Daniel Mills & Sons Limited, 1845-1995. (Cape Town, SA: D.M.S., 224 p.). Daniel Mills & Sons Limited--History; Yeast industry--South Africa--History.

(Darigold Inc.), Archie Satterfield (1993). The Darigold Story: The History of a Dairy Cooperative in the Pacific Northwest. (Seattle, WA: Darigold, 177 p.). Darigold, Inc.--History; Dairying, Cooperative--Northwest, Pacific--History; Dairy products industry--Northwest, Pacific--History.

(Driscoll Strawberry Associates), Manabi Hirasaki with Naomi Hirahara (2003). A Taste for Strawberries: The Independent Journey of Nisei Farmer Manabi Hirasaki. (Los Angeles, CA: Japanese American National Museum, 217 p.). Hirasaki, Manabi, 1923- ; Japanese-American farmers--California--Gilroy--Biography; Strawberries--California--Gilroy; Strawberry industry--California--Gilroy. World's largest commercial strawberry distributor. First non-European American board member of world's largest commercial strawberry distributor.

(Farmland Industries), Gilbert C. Fite (1978). Beyond the Fence Rows: A History of Farmland Industries, Inc., 1929-1978. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 404 p.). Farmland Industries.

(Fisheries), Gordon B. Dodds (1963). The Salmon King of Oregon; R.D. Hume and The Pacific Fisheries. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 257 p.). Hume, Robert Deniston, 1845-1908; Salmon fisheries--Oregon.

(Fisheries), Harold A. Innis (1978). The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy. (Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 522 p. [rev. ed.]). Cod fisheries--History; Cod fisheries--Economic aspects--History; Fish trade--History; International economic relations.

(Fisheries), James M. Acheson (1988). The Lobster Gangs of Maine. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 181 p.). Lobster fishers--Maine; Lobster fisheries--Maine.

(Francklyn Land & Cattle Company), Lester, F. Sheffy (1963). The Francklyn Land & Cattle Company: A Panhandle Enterprise, 1882-1957. (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 402 p.). Francklyn Land & Cattle Company; White Deer Corporation; Cattle trade -- Texas; Land settlement -- Texas.

(Garvey Inc.), Olive White Garvey, with Virgil Quinlisk (1970). The Obstacle Race; The Story of Ray Hugh Garvey. (San Antonio, TX: Naylor Co., 233 p.). Garvey, Ray Hugh, 1893-1959.

(Garvey Inc.), Craig Miner (1992). Garvey, Inc.: Expectations to Equity, 1959-1973. (Wichita, KS: M. Page, 160 p.). Garvey, Ray Hugh; Garvey, Inc.; Capitalists and financiers--Kansas--Biography; Grain trade--Kansas--History.

(Antony Gibbs & Sons), W.M. Mathew (1981). The House of Gibbs and the Peruvian Guano Monopoly. (London, UK: Royal Historical Society, 281 p.). Antony Gibbs & Sons -- History -- 19th century; Guano industry -- Peru -- History -- 19th century; Guano industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Classic study of an export economy.

(Gold Kist), Harold H. Martin (1982). A Good Man--A Great Dream: D.W. Brooks of Gold Kist. (Atlanta, GA: Gold Kist Inc., 196 p.). Brooks, David William, 1901- ; Gold Kist Inc.--History; Cotton trade--United States--History; Businesspeople--United States--Biography.

(Gold Kist), David W. Brooks (1993). D.W. Brooks, Gold Kist, and Seven U.S. Presidents: An Autobiography. (Atlanta, GA: D.W. Brooks Family, 252 p.). Brooks, David William, 1901- ; Gold Kist Inc.--History; Businesspeople--United States--Biography; Agricultural industries--United States--History--20th century.

(Grove Farm Company), Bob Krauss (1966). Grove Farm Plantation; The Biography of a Hawaiian Sugar Plantation. (Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 400 p.). Wilcox, George Norton; Grove Farm Company; Hawaii -- History.

(R. & W. Hellaby Ltd.), Dick Scott (1973). Stock in Trade: Hellaby's First Hundred Years, 1873-1973. (Auckland, NZ: Southern Cross Books, 176 p.). Hellaby (R. & W.) Ltd.; Meat industry and trade--New Zealand--History.

(W. D. Hoard and Sons Co.), Loren H. Osman (1985). W.D. Hoard: A Man for His Time. (Fort Atkinson, WI: W.D. Hoard, 451 p.). Hoard, William Dempster, 1836-1918.; Dairy farmers--Wisconsin--Biography; Dairying--Wisconsin--History; Governors--Wisconsin--Biography. 

(International Basic Economy Corporation), Kenneth D. Durr (2006). A Company with a Mission: Rodman Rockefeller and the International Basic Economy Corporation, 1947-1985. (Rockville, MD: Montrose Press, 337 p.). Director of the History Division (History Associates Incorporated). Rockefeller, Rodman, 1932-2000 (CEO - from 1972 to 1980); International Basic Economy Corporation--History; Social responsibility of business--United States--History. Founded 1947 on premise a private American business corporation that focused on developing "basic economies" of developing countries could turn a profit, encourage others (foreigners, nationals) to establish competitive businesses.

(Kayman Sankar and Company Limited), David Chanderbali (1995). Kayman Sankar: The Ultimate Rice Magnate. (Georgetown, Guyana: K. Sankar and Co., 205 p.). Sankar, Kayman, 1926- ; Kayman Sankar and Company Limited--History; Rice trade--Guyana; Rice farmers--Guyana--Biography; Businesspeople--Guyana--Biography.

(King Ranch), John Cypher (1995). Bob Kleberg and the King Ranch: A Worldwide Sea of Grass. (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 239 p.). Kleberg, Robert Justus, 1896-1974; King Ranch (Tex.)--History; King Ranch, Inc.--History; Ranchers--Texas--Biography.

(King Ranch), Mona D. Sizer (1999). The King Ranch Story: Truth and Myth: A History of the Oldest and Greatest Ranch in Texas. (Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press, 234 p.). King Ranch (Tex.)--History; King Ranch (Tex.)--Biography.

(King Ranch), Don Graham (2003). Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire. (New York, NY: Wiley, 289 p.). Ranch life--Texas; King Ranch (Tex.)--History; King Ranch (Tex.)--Biography.

(Matador Land and Cattle Company), William Martin Pearce (1964). The Matador Land and Cattle Company. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 244 p.). Cattle trade -- West (U.S.); Matador Land and Cattle Company, ltd.

(Thomas McDonogh & Sons), Peadar O'Dowd (2002). In from the West: The McDonogh Dynasty. (Galway, IR: Thomas McDonogh & Sons, 156 p.). Thomas McDonogh & Sons--History; Business enterprises--Ireland--Galway--History; Businessmen--Ireland--Galway--Biography; Galway (Ireland)--Commerce--History.

(Miller & Lux), M. Catherine Miller (1993). Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 255 p.). Miller & Lux; Water rights --California --History; California --History --1850-1950. Legal biography; 1870s -1930s - Miller & Lux looked to law to mediate its place amid change (corporate counsel, new concept for late-19th-century America, creative development and use of new legal doctrines); relationship between law, economic change, distribution of wealth and power; law in environment undergoing rapid development.

(Miller & Lux), David Igler (2001). Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 267 p.). Historian (University of Utah). Miller & Lux--History; Cattle trade--West (U.S.)--History; Animal industry--West (U.S.)--History; Packing-houses--West (U.S.)--History; Land use--West (U.S.)--History; Water rights--West (U.S.)--History; Big business--West (U.S.)--History; Industrialization--West (U.S.)--History.

(Miller & Lux), Edited by Charles Sawyer. (2003). One Man Show: Henry Miller in the San Joaquin. (Los Banos, CA: Ralph Milliken Museum Society: Loose Change Publications, 328 p.). Miller, Henry, 1827-1916; Miller & Lux--History; Pioneers--California--San Joaquin Valley--Biography; Ranchers--California--San Joaquin Valley--Biography; Businessmen--California--San Joaquin Valley--Biography; Cattle trade--California--San Joaquin Valley--History; Water rights--California--San Joaquin Valley--History; San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--History; San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--History--Sources; San Joaquin Valley (Calif.)--Biography.

(Newhall Land & Farming), Ruth Waldo Newhall (1958). The Newhall Ranch; The Story of the Newhall Land & Farming Company. (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 120 p.). Newell family; Newhall Land and Farming Company.

(Newhall Land & Farming), Andrew Rolle (1991). Henry Mayo Newhall and His Times: A California Legacy. (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 168 p.). Newhall, Henry Mayo, 1825-1882; Pioneers--California--Biography; Businesspeople--California--Biography; Ranchers--California--Biography; California--Biography.

(Pacific Meat Company), Gareth Sirotnik (1988). Running Tough: The Story of Vancouver's Jack Diamond. (Vancouver, BC: Diamond Family, 245 p.). Diamond, Jack, 1909- ; Jews--British Columbia--Vancouver--Biography; Businesspeople--British Columbia--Vancouver--Biography; Vancouver (B.C.)--Biography.

(Penobscot Poultry), Cedric N. Chatterley and Alicia J. Rouverol with Stephen A. Cole and a foreword by Michael Frisch (2000). "I Was Content and Not Content": The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry. (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 134 p.). Lord, Linda, 1948-; Penobscot Poultry--History; Poultry industry--Belfast--Maine; Belfast (Me.)--Economic conditions.

(Peterson Industries), Huey Crisp (1989). Lloyd Peterson and Peterson Industries: An American Story. (Little Rock, AR: August House, 179 p.). Peterson, Lloyd; Peterson Industries--History; Poultry industry--United States--History; Industrialists--United States--Biography.

(Poultry), Oscar A. Hanke et al (1974). American Poultry History, 1823-1973: An Anthology Overview of 150 Years: People-Places-Progress. (Lafayette, IN: American Poultry Historical Society, 775 p.). Poultry--United States--History; Poultry industry--United States--History; Poultry--Canada--History; Poultry industry--Canada--History.

(Simplot), Robert G. Waite; in collaboration with Thomas Hale and Paul Zelus (1995). I Just Went to Work: Jack Simplot and His Business Career. (Boise, ID: March Hare Press, 118 p.). Simplot, Jack; Potato industry--Idaho--History; Businesspeople--Idaho--Biography.

(Simplot), Louie Attebery (2000). J.R. Simplot: A Billion the Hard Way. (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press, 251 p.). Simplot, J. R. (John Richard), 1909- ; J.R. Simplot Company--History; Businessmen--United States--Biography; Food industry and trade--United States--History.

(Swan Land and Cattle Company), Harmon Ross Mothershead (1971). The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 203 p.). Swan Land and Cattle Company.

(Swan Land and Cattle Company), Lawrence M. Woods (2006). Alex Swan and the Swan Companies. (Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Co., 293 p.). Swan, Alexander Hamilton, 1831-1905; Swan Land and Cattle Company--History; Cattle trade--Wyoming--History--19th century; Ranchers--Wyoming--Biography; Businessmen--West (U.S.)--Biography.

(Tattersalls - founded 1766 by Richard Tattersall), Peter Willett (1987). The Story of Tattersalls. (London, UK: S. Paul, 213 p.). Tattersalls (Firm)--History; Horse trading--Great Britain--History; Horse breeders--Great Britain--History. World's first bloodstock auction house.

(Thatcher Brothers), Paul E. Patterson, Joy Poole (2000). Great Plains Cattle Empire: Thatcher Brothers and Associates (1875-1945). (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 211 p.). Cattle trade--Great Plains--History; Great Plains--History.

(Tiger Oats Limited), Rudy Frankel, assisted by Marian Robertson (1988). Tiger Tapestry. (Cape Town, SA: C. Struik Publishers, 432 p.). Tiger Oats Limited--History; Produce trade--South Africa--History; Food industry and trade--South Africa--History.

(Tillamook County Creamery Association), Archie Satterfield (2000). The Tillamook Way: A History of the Tillamook County Creamery Association, a Farmer-Owned Cooperative. (Tillamook, OR: Tillamook County Creamery Association, 151 p.). Tillamook County Creamery Association--History; Dairy farming--Oregon--Tillamook County--History; Frontier and pioneer life--Oregon--Tillamook County; Cheese industry--Oregon--Tillamook County--History; Tillamook County (Or.)--History.

(United Plantations Berhad), Susan M. Martin (2003). The UP Saga. (Copenhagen, Denmark: NIAS Press, 356 p.). United Plantations (Firm)--History; Plantations--Malaysia--History; Palm oil industry--Malaysia--History. rovides a glowing example of a partnership between Europeans and Asians which has benefited both sides.

(Weil Brothers Cotton), George S. Bush (1982). An American Harvest: The Story of Weil Brothers Cotton. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 495 p.). Weil Brothers Cotton--History; Cotton trade--United States--History.

(Wheat), H. Craig Miner (1998). Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920-1950. (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 225 p.). Kriss, John, 1905-1996; Wheat--Kansas--History--20th century; Agriculture--Kansas--History--20th century; Agriculture--Colorado--History--20th century; Farmers--Kansas--Biography.

(Williams and Kettle Ltd. - established 1880), Leonard Ernest Anderson (1974). Throughout the East Coast, The Story of Williams and Kettle Ltd. (Hastings, NZ: Pictorial Publications, 176 p.). Williams and Kettle Ltd.--History. Prominent stock and station company operating at the forefront of New Zealand’s rural servicing industry.

(Wright, Stephenson & Co.), J. C. Irving (1961). A Century's Challenge: Wright, Stephenson & Co., Limited, 1861-1961. (Wellington, NZ: Wright, Stephenson & Co., 293 p.). Wright, Stephenson & Co.; Commission merchants--New Zealand. 

(XIT ranch), Lewis Nordyke (1949). Cattle Empire: The Fabulous Story of the 3,000,000 Acre XIT. (New York, NY: Morrow, 273 p.). Ranch life; XIT Ranch (Tex.).

(XIT Ranch), J. Evetts Haley (1967). The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 258 p. (orig. pub. 1953)). Frontier and pioneer life--Texas; Ranch life--Texas; XIT Ranch, Tex.; Texas--History.

Edmund Abaka (2005). ’Kola Is God’s Gift’: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives & the Kola Industry in Asante & the Gold Coast c. 1820-1950. (Oxford, UK: James Currey, 173 p.). Kola nut industry--Ghana--History. Legal and popular stimulant among West African Muslims.

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman (1987). To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 322 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--19th century; United States--Rural conditions.

Ed. Julie A. Avery (2000). Agricultural Fairs in America: Tradition, Education, Celebration. (Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 240 p.). Assistant Curator of History; Coordinator of Information & Museum Services Division; and Coordinator of Rural Arts & Culture Program at the Michigan State University Museum. Agribusiness; agricultural exhibitions; agricultural fairs. 1810 - Berkshire Agricultural Society (Massachusetts) sponsored exhibition considered first of new fairs in America; competitive displays, informal learning opportunities, demonstrations, lectures, parades, celebrations; 13 historical, contemporary articles.

Harold Barger and Hans H. Landsberg (1942). American Agriculture, 1899-1939; A Study of Output, Employment and Productivity. (New York, NY: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 440 p.). Agriculture -- United States; Agriculture -- Economic aspects.

Graeme Barker (2006). The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 550 p.). Disney Professor of Archaeology, and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge). Agriculture, Prehistoric; Agriculture--Origin; Plants, Cultivated--Origin; Plant remains (Archaeology). Development of agricultural systems as transformations in social norms and ideologies as in ways of obtaining food.

Richard Benson (2005). The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside. (London, UK: Hamish Hamilton, 240 p.). Editor (The Face magazine). Farms; Farming business; agribusiness. 

Ernest Ludlow Bogart (1923). Economic History of American Agriculture. (New York, NY: Longmans, Green and Co., 173 p.). Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Agriculture -- United States. Chapters from the author's Economic history of the United States.

Solon J. Buck (1963). The Granger Movement; A Study of Agricultural Organization and Its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 384 p. [orig. pub. 1913]). National Grange; Agriculture--United States; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States; Railroads and state--United States; Cooperation--United States.

Jacques Cauvin; translated by Trevor Watkins (2000). The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 259 p.). Neolithic period--Middle East; Religion, Prehistoric--Middle East; Agriculture--Origin; Middle East--Antiquities. Cultural, social, economic changes which transformed mobile hunter-gatherers into first village societies, farmers in world.

Marquis W. Childs; Introd. by George G. Aiken (1974). The Farmer Takes a Hand; The Electric Power Revolution in Rural America. (New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 256 p. [orig. pub. 1952]). Rural electrification--United States; Electricity in agriculture; New Deal, 1933-1939. 

ed. E. J. T. Collins (2001). The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume VII, 1850-1914. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2236 p.). Completes the eight-volume Agrarian History of England and Wales - useful reference for the whole history of English agriculture from the Neolithic period to 1939. See Finberg below.

David B. Danbom (1979). The Resisted Revolution: Urban America and the Industrialization of Agriculture, 1900-1930. (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 195 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History; Rural development--United States--History; United States--Rural conditions.

Clarence H. Danhof (1969). Change in Agriculture; The Northern United States, 1820-1870. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 322 p.). Agricultural innovations--United States--History; Agriculture--United States--History.

Leroy Judson Daniels, as told to Helen S. Herrick (1987). Tales of an Old Horsetrader: The First Hundred Years. (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 235 p.). Daniels, Leroy Judson, 1882- ; Businessmen -- United States -- Biography; Horse industry -- United States -- History.

Margaret Derry (2006). Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920. (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 302 p.). Adjunct Professor in the Department of History (University of Guelph). Horse breeders----History; Horses -- market; Animal industry----History. Horse production in U. S., Britain, Canada at height of the species’ usefulness, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century.

Edward Jerome Dies (1976). Titans of the Soil: Great Builders of Agriculture. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 213 p. [orig. pub. 1949]). Agriculturists--United States--Biography. 

Hiram M. Drache (1996). History of U.S. Agriculture and Its Relevance to Today. (Danville, IL: Interstate Publishers, 494 p.). Agriculture--United States--History.

--- (2001). Creating Abundance: Visionary Entrepreneurs of Agriculture. (Danville, IL: Interstate Publishers, 388 p.). Agricultural industries--United States--Biography; Food industry and trade--United States--Biography; Agriculturists--United States--Biography; Businesspeople--United States--Biography.

Kathryn Marie Dudley (2000). Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 195 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--Middle West; Family farms--Middle West; =Rural families--Middle West; Farmers--Middle West; Middle West--Rural conditions.

Giovanni Federico (2005). Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 388 p.). Professor of Economic History at the European University Institute. Agriculture--Economic aspects--History--19th century; Agriculture--Economic aspects--History--20th century. Economic history, sociology, and even political science - comprehensive history of world agriculture. 

General ed. H. P. R. Finberg (1967). The Agrarian History of England and Wales. (London, UK: Cambridge University Press, 8 vols.). Land use--England--History; Land use--Wales--History; Agriculture--England--History; Agriculture--Wales--History. See Thirsk below.

Deborah Fitzgerald (1990). The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890-1940. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 247 p.). Associate Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (MIT). Hybrid corn--Illinois--History; Corn--Illinois--Breeding--History.

--- (2003). Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 242 p.). Associate Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (MIT). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century; Family farms--United States--History--20th century; Agricultural credit--United States--History--20th century; Farms, Size of--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century; Farm mechanization--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century; Agriculture--Capital investments--United States--History--20th century; Farm mortgages--United States--History--20th century; Business cycles--United States--History--20th century; Farm foreclosures--United States--History--20th century.   

Bruce L. Gardner (2002). American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 388 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--Statistics; Agriculture--United States--Costs--Statistics; Family farms--United States--Statistics; Farm income--United States--Statistics; Agricultural credit; Agricultural productivity; Agricultural subsidies--United States; Agriculture and state--United States; Agricultural laws and legislation--United States.

David Goodman and Michael Redclift (1982). From Peasant to Proletarian: Capitalist Development and Agrarian Transitions. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 244 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects; Capital; Economic development; Marxian economics; Peasantry; Proletariat.

Norman S.B. Gras (1940). A History of Agriculture in Europe and America. (New York, NY: F.S. Crofts & Co., 496 p. [2nd ed.]). Professor of Business History (Harvard Business School). Agriculture--Europe--History; Agriculture--United States--History.

Lewis Cecil Gray, assisted by Esther Katherine Thompson, with an introductory note by Henry Charles Taylor (1933). History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. (Washington, DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2 Vols.). Agriculture--Southern States; Agriculture--Southern States--Bibliography.

Victor Davis Hanson (1996). Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea. (New York, NY: Free Press, 289 p.). Professor of Greek (Call State), 5th Generation (Thompson seedless) Grape Farmer. Family farms--United States; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States. 

Margaret Swett Henson and Deolece Parmelee (1993). The Cartwrights of San Augustine: Three Generations of Agrarian Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Texas. (Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, 337 p.). Cartwright family; Businessmen--Texas--San Augustine--Biography; San Augustine (Tex.)--Economic conditions; San Augustine (Tex.)--History--19th century.

Robert West Howard (1945). Two Billion Acre Farm, An Informal History of American Agriculture. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 209 p.). Agriculture--United States--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States.

R. Douglas Hurt (2002). Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century. (Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 192 p.). Agriculture--United States--History--20th century; Agriculture and state--United States--History--20th century; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History--20th century. 

Lawrence J. Jelinek (1979). Harvest Empire: A History of California Agriculture. (San Francisco, CA: Boyd & Fraser, 113 p.). Agriculture --California --History.

E. L. Jones (1974). Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution. (New York, NY: Wiley, 233 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History; Industrial revolution--Great Britain; Great Britain--Economic conditions.

Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt (1995). Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 300 p.). Economics--Religious aspects--Amish--History of doctrines--20th century; Amish--Pennsylvania--Lancaster Co.--History--20th century; Lancaster County (Pa.)--Church history--20th century; Lancaster County (Pa.)--Economic conditions.

Allan Kulikoff (1992). The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 341 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History; Capitalism--United States--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865; United States--Rural conditions.

--- (2000). From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 484 p.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Europe--History; Farm tenancy--United States--History; Farm tenancy--Great Britain--History; Farm tenancy--Europe--History; United States--Economic conditions--To 1865; Great Britain--Economic conditions--18th century; Great Britain--Economic conditions--17th century; Europe--Economic conditions--18th century; Europe--Economic conditions--17th century; United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

Angela Lakwete (2003). Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 248 p.). Cotton gins and ginning--United States--History--19th century; Inventions--United States--History--19th century.

Eds. Thomas A. Lyson, G.W. Stevenson, and Rick Welsh (2008). Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 304 p.). Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Development Sociology (Cornell University); Senior Scientist with the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (University of Wisconsin– Madison); Associate Professor of Sociology (Clarkson University). Family farms --United States; Farm produce --United States --Marketing. Midsize U. S. family-operated farms - too big to use direct marketing techniques of small farms, too small to take advantage of corporate marketing, distribution systems = rural America with weakened municipal tax bases, job loss, population flight; strategies to revive "agriculture of the middle", food system for midsize farms, ranches.

Russell R. Menard (2006). Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 181 p.). Professor of History (University of Minnesota).  Agriculture--Economic aspects--Barbados--History--17th century; Sugar trade--Barbados--History--17th century; Slavery--Barbados--History--17th century; Plantations--Barbados--History--17th century. Barbados was well on its way to becoming a plantation colony and slave society before sugar emerged as the dominant crop.

Ian Mulgrew (2005). Bud Inc.: Inside Canada’s Marijuana Industry. (Toronto, ON: Random House Canada, 287 p.). Legal Affairs Columnist (Vancouver Sun). Marijuana;  Marijuana industry -- Canada; Forbes magazine (November 2003) - marijuana is "Canada’s most valuable agricultural product — bigger than wheat, cattle or timber".

Mary Neth (1995). Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 347 p.). Middle West -- Rural conditions; Rural families -- Middle West; Farmers' spouses -- Middle West; Agriculture and state -- Middle West.

Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott (2005). From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. (Bloomington: IN: Indiana University Press, 356 p.). Author; Emeritus Professor of History (Mississippi State University). Agriculture--Middle West--History; Farm life--Middle West--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Middle West--History. Great transformation in American life.

David Ormrod (1985). English Grain Exports and the Structure of Agrarian Capitalism, 1700-1760. (Hull, UK: Hull University Press, 145 p.). Lecturer in Economic and Social History (University of Kent at Canterbury). Grain trade--England--History--18th century; Grain trade--Wales--History--18th century; Agriculture--Economic aspects--England--History--18th century; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Wales--History--18th century; Capitalism--England--History--18th century; Capitalism--Wales--History--18th century.

Donald H. Pflueger (1976). Charles C. Chapman: The Career of a Creative Californian, 1853-1944. (Los Angeles, CA: Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 241 p.). Chapman, Charles C.; orange growing; orange industry. Pioneered the growing and selling of Valencia oranges to the U.S. grocery trade.

Donald J. Pisani (1984). From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-1931. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 521 p.). Irrigation--Economic aspects--California--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--California--History.

Louis W. Potts & Ann M. Sligar (2004). Watkins Mill: The Factory on the Farm. (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 216 p.). Watkins, Waltus L., 1806-1884; Watkins family; Businessmen--Missouri--Lawson--Biography; Farmers--Missouri--Lawson--Biography; Wool industry--Missouri--Lawson--History--19th century; Woolen and worsted manufacture--Missouri--Lawson--History--19th century; Agriculture--Missouri--Lawson--History--19th century; Watkins Woolen Mill State Historic Site (Lawson, Mo.); Lawson (Mo.)--Biography; Lawson (Mo.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Paul Raeburn, with a new preface by the author (1996). The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture. (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 269 p.). Senior Writer for Business Week magazine. Plant breeding--United States; Crops--United States--Germplasm resources; Agricultural innovations--United States; Agriculture--United States.

Richard Rhodes (1998). Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer. (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 336 p.). Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author. Farm life--Missouri; Family farms--Missouri; Agriculture--Missouri.

Anna Rochester (1975). Why Farmers Are Poor. (New York, NY: Arno Press, 317 p. [orig. pub. 1940]). Agriculture--United States; Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States.

Mary B. Rose (2000). Firms, Networks, and Business Values: The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 352 p.). Cotton trade--Great Britain--History; Cotton trade--United States--History. Series: Cambridge studies in modern economic history.

Thomas C. Smith (1959). The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 250 p.). Land tenure--Japan; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Japan; Japan--Rural conditions.

Steven Stoll (1998). The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 273 p.). Assistant Professor of History (Yale University). Fruit trade -- California; Fruit -- California -- Marketing; Horticulture -- California; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- California. How a class of capitalist farmers made California nation's leading producer of fruit, created first industrial countryside in America; California from 1880 to 1930 - origins, evolution, implications of fruit industry; window through which to view entire history of California.

Charles G. Teague (1944). Fifty Years a Rancher: The Recollections of Half a Century Devoted to the Citrus and Walnut Industries of California. (Los Angeles, CA: The Ward Ritchie Press, 199 p.). Citrus fruits; Walnut; Agriculture, Cooperative--California.

Ed. Joan Thirsk (1990). Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1500-1750: Volume 1 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 5 vols.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--England--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Wales--History; England--Rural conditions; Wales--Rural conditions. 

Ed. Joan Thirsk (1990). Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1500-1750: Volume 2 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 5 vols.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--England--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Wales--History; England--Rural conditions; Wales--Rural conditions. 

Ed. Joan Thirsk (1990). Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1500-1750: Volume 3 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 5 vols.). Agriculture--Economic aspects--England--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--Wales--History; England--Rural conditions; Wales--Rural conditions. 

David Vaught (2007). After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 328 p.). Associate Professor of History (Texas A & M University). Agriculture--Economic aspects--California--Sacramento Valley--History; Sacramento Valley (Calif.)--History. Hard-luck miners-turned-farmers in Putah Creek (became Davis, CA); endured disputes, confusion over land policy, struggled with vagaries of local, national, world markets.

Simon P. Ville (2000). The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agent Industry in Australia and New Zealand. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. School of Economics and Information Systems (University of Wollongong, Australia), President of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand. Animal industry--Australia--History; Animal industry--New Zealand--History; Wool industry--Australia--History; Wool industry--New Zealand--History; Stockyards--Economic aspects--Australia--History; Stockyards--Economic aspects--New Zealand--History.

Keith J. Volanto (2005). Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal. (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 194 p.). Professor of History (Collin County Community College). United States. Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933; Cotton growing--Government policy--Texas--History; Cotton trade--Government policy--Texas--History; New Deal, 1933-1939--Texas. New Deal cotton policy among Texas cotton farmers during Great Depression; effects of the agricultural policies on landlords, tenants, sharecroppers, ginners, shippers. 

Richard A. Walker (2004). The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California. (New York, NY: New Press, 382 p.). Professor and Past Chair of Geography (University of California, Berkeley). Agricultural industries--California--History; Agriculture--Economic aspects--California; Agricultural industries--Environmental aspects--California; Agricultural industries--Social aspects--California; Agricultural laborers--California--History.

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History of the King Ranch                                   http://www.king-ranch.com/main_history.htm

International Association of Agricultural Museums http://icom.museum/affiliates/aima.html                                   AIMA promotes scientific research and stimulates collaboration among museum professionals and agricultural museums. Every three years, AIMA organises an international congress during which specific themes are presented and discussed. In the future, AIMA will focus its attention on developing countries. Agricultural museums must encourage development while at the same time remain critical of the deviations of intensive agriculture which destroy the environment and, above all, harm poorer populations.

National Agricultural Library                        http://www.nal.usda.gov/                                                               There are regular online agricultural libraries, and then there is the National Agricultural Library (NAL), with more working papers, fact sheets, and farm updates than ears of corn in a corncrib. This digital library, produced by the United States Department of Agriculture will be quite a boon to agriculture scholars, extension agents, and farmers alike. Designed to assist those who are unable to make a personal visit, the Library's website allows users to browse documents by subject (such as marketing and trade or livestock) and also ask actual librarians questions, via the site. Visitors will definitely want to look at the NAL Special Collections area, which features a number of rare agricultural books and guides, and the very nice pomological watercolor collection, which features images of apples, grapes, and pears.

Silos and Smokestacks http://www.silosandsmokestacks.org/                                      Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area is one of 37 federally designated heritage areas in the nation and is an Affiliated Area of the National Park Service. Through the development of a network of sites, programs and events, SSNHA's mission is to interpret farm life, agribusiness and rural communities-past and present; preserves and tells the story of American agriculture and its global significance through partnerships and activities that celebrate the land, people, and communities of the area.