Family Farming: A New Economic Vision

By Marty Strange

Book Overview

Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial farming takes over.Family Farmingexposes the bias in American farm policies that irrationally encourages expansion--a bias evident in federal commodity programs, income-tax provisions, and subsidized credit services. Marty Strange challenges the assumption that bigger is better, critiques the technological base of modern agriculture, and calls for farming practices that are ethical, economical, and ecologically sound. The alternative policies discussed in this book could yet save the family farm. And the ways and means of saving it are argued here with special urgency.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803291949
• ISBN13: 9780803291942
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.5"