The book "The American Farming: The 21st Century" culminates Dr. Chernyakov's multi-year research of the American farming as an extraordinary phenomena and one of the most important components of the U.S. agribusiness sector. The book does not only present a detailed technical and economic review of American farming operations as a whole, but also provides a farm/enterprise-level assessment of individual agricultural companies that have insured the country's food security as well as leadership in world agricultural trade.

The book is composed of two parts. The first part is devoted to informal assessments of U.S. larger farms by their geographic location, major business activities, status, et cetera. The said companies were surveyed and described by the author during his travel to eighteen states of the United States in the year 2000.

The second part provides an up-to-date economic analysis of the American farming, including its problems and the ways of overcoming them. Special analysis is given to intensification fac-tors with respect to both crop production and the livestock industry. The author also explores in detail the economic mechanisms that are used for implementing various U.S. programs, and particularly the peculiar features of the new U.S. agricultural policy.

The book is intended for a wide range of agricultural specialists and researchers, as well as federal- and local-level administrators, and certainly will be interesting to all readers who are engaged in or related to the many subjects covered by the book.

Foreword

Part I. The Modern U.S. Farm: Essays and Reflections

• Introduction
• Pennsylvania.
  • Mason Dixon Farm, Inc., a large dairy operation
• Virginia
  • Oakdale Farm, a broiler production farm
• North Carolina
  • Thomas Farms, a hog operation
• Illinois
  • Cole Farm, Inc., a grain farm
• Colorado
  • Red Mountain Ranch (a cattle ranch).
  • A large feedlot of Conágra Beef Company
  • An Aristocrat Angus ranch
• Nebraska
  • Double K Farms, Inc. (a grain operation)
  • Spohn Farms Inc. (a grain farm)
  • Hastings Pork (a hog farm)
  Iowa
  • Tom Dorr, a businessman, a farmer, and a politician
  • The West Central Farmers' Cooperative
• North Dakota
  • Hoverson Farms (the largest potato producing farm)
  • Miron Farm, Inc. (a sugar beet farm)
• Wisconsin
  • Emerald Dairy, LLC (a large dairy operation)
  • Larson Acres (a milk farm)
  • Spring Grove Dairy (a dairy operation)
• Indiana
  • White Oak Farms (a mixed farm)
• Ohio
  • Buckeye Egg Farm L.P. (an egg farm)

Part II. The American Farming: A Retrospective Analysis and the Modern Situa-tion. Major Trends and Outlooks

• Introduction
• The Modern State of Agricultural Production
• Foreign Trade in Agricultural Products
• Agricultural Productivity Growth: the Major Stages
• The Main Agricultural Intensification Factors
  • Optimizing location
  • Comprehensive mechanization, the electric utilities development, and energy consumption
  • Fertilizer and agricultural chemicals
  • Irrigation and land improvement
  • Soil conservation technologies
  • Research and extension services
• Land Resources and Land Use
• Farming in the Second Half of the 20th Century
  • Specialization and concentration of farms
  • The contribution of large farms to the country's total agricultural production and sales
  • A modern classification of farms
  • Farm production and government regulation: the role of agricultural laws
• The 1998—2001 Agricultural Crisis and the U.S. Agricultural Policy

Epilog.

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