Download e-book for kindle: Wisconsin Agriculture: A History by Jerry Apps

"I'm embarrassed to assert i presumed I knew something great approximately Wisconsin agriculture or its historical past earlier than I learn this ebook. 'Wisconsin Agriculture' can be required studying in background periods from highschool to the collegiate point. It makes me grateful that Jerry Apps has one of these experience of dedication to Wisconsin's agricultural heritage--and to getting the tale right." --Pam Jahnke, Farm Director, Wisconsin Farm record Radio

Wisconsin has been a farming kingdom from its very beginnings. And notwithstanding it truly is lengthy been often called "the Dairy State," it produces even more than cows, milk, and cheese. in reality, Wisconsin is likely one of the so much assorted agricultural states within the nation.

The tale of farming in Wisconsin is wealthy and various in addition, and the threads of that tale are similar and intertwined. during this long-awaited quantity, celebrated rural historian Jerry Apps examines every little thing from the elemental affects of panorama and climate to complicated concerns of ethnic and pioneer cost styles, altering know-how, agricultural study and schooling, and executive laws and regulations. besides anticipated issues, akin to the cranberry and artisan cheesemaking, "Wisconsin Agriculture" delves into pork livestock and dairy goats, fur farming and yuletide timber, maple syrup and honey, and different distinctiveness plants, together with ginseng, hemp, cherries, sugar beets, mint, sphagnum moss, flax, and hops. Apps additionally explores new and rediscovered farming endeavors, from aquaculture to city farming to beekeeping, and discusses contemporary political advancements, corresponding to the 2014 Farm invoice and its ramifications. And he appears to be like to the way forward for farming, considering questions of moral growing to be practices, meals safeguard, sustainability, and the aptitude results of weather change.

Featuring first-person money owed from the cost period to this day, in addition to greater than 2 hundred attractive pictures, "Wisconsin Agriculture" breathes lifestyles into the evidence and figures of one hundred fifty years of farming historical past and offers compelling insights into the state's agricultural prior, current, and future.