The Takeover: Chicken Farming And The Roots Of American Agribusiness (Environmental History And The American South Ser.),Used

The Takeover: Chicken Farming And The Roots Of American Agribusiness (Environmental History And The American South Ser.),Used

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Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number of practices that had first underpinned the cottongrowing croplien system, ultimately transforming the poultry industry in ways that drove tens of thousands of farmers off the land and rendered those who remained dependent on large agribusiness firms.Gisolfi argues that the inequalities inherent in the structure of modern poultry farming have led to steep human and environmental costs. Agribusiness firmsmany of them descended from the cottonera Souths furnishing merchantsbrought farmers into a system of feedconversion contracts that placed all production decisions in the hands of the poultry corporations but at least half of the capital risks on the farmers. Along the way, the federal government aided and abettedsometimes unwittinglythe consolidation of power by poultry firms through direct and indirect subsidies and favorable policies. Drawing on USDA files, oral history, congressional records, and poultry publications, Gisolfi puts a local face on one of the twentieth centurys silent agribusiness revolutions.

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