A hard look at the problems of agriculture in a growing industrial economy by the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. His book is a clear and authoritative call for a “new look” at farm policy, written for both the city and farm reader.Originally...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture -- 2 By the Numbers: Economics and Management in Agriculture -- 3 Agricultural Engineers and Industrialization -- 4 Farms as Factories: The Emergence of Large-Scale Farming -- 5 The Campbell...