…better-quality butter and building stronger marketing efforts to help distinguish its products in the marketplace. A Butter Naming Contest Creates Land O’Lakes The cooperative’s efforts to improve butter quality proved…
American Agriculture Expands Dramatically Between 1860 and 1910
…1860 and 1910, the United States experienced one of the most dramatic periods of agricultural expansion in its history. In this edition of the American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold…
Westward Expansion Opens New Opportunities for American Agriculture
…this period, agriculture remained the foundation of the U.S. economy, with farming practices and access to new markets helping shape the country’s economic development. In this edition of the American…
Women Played a Vital Role in American Agriculture During the Civil War
…military, women took on expanded responsibilities to keep farms operating and help sustain the nation’s food supply. An installment of Mark Oppold’s American Agriculture History Minute, sponsored by AgriLiquid, examines…
Supply and Demand Shaped Early American Agriculture
…modern agriculture, where growers continue to monitor production levels, market opportunities and changing demand to make important business decisions. In this American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold highlights how the…
Southern Agriculture: Cotton, Plantations and Soil Fertility
…ownership, crop production and the growing demand for agricultural exports in Europe. In this installment of the American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold examines how southern farmers produced food and…
How Railroads Helped Expand American Agriculture in the 1800s
…Connecting Farmland With Growing Markets Railroads helped change how American agriculture operated by connecting farms to markets over greater distances. As agricultural communities expanded, rail transportation made it increasingly practical…
Early American Pioneers and the Loss of Soil Fertility
…preserving its long-term productivity. In this edition of American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold examines how pioneers moving westward from the 1770s through the 1830s frequently relied on the natural…
Iowa’s Great Prairie Presented Early Settlers With New Farming Challenges
…In this edition of the American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold explores how the Great Prairie shaped the challenges of early settlement and the development of agriculture across Iowa and…
Homestead Act of 1862: How America Opened the West
…the American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold looks back at the early western frontier, the importance of St. Louis, and the debate over how the federal government should make western…
From Plymouth to Plantations: Early American Crops
…of the growing colonies. In this installment of the American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold explores the crops that helped shape early American agriculture, including barley, peas, Indian corn, tobacco,…
Plantation Agriculture Shaped Early American Farming
…the American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold examines the beginnings of plantation agriculture in colonial America, its geographic expansion, and the role different crops played in the early agricultural economy….
How European Immigrants Shaped Early American Agriculture
…History Minute This installment of American Agriculture History Minute features Mark Oppold exploring how European ethnic traditions influenced early American farming practices. How European Immigrants Shaped Early American Agriculture Sponsored…
How Radio Helped Transform American Agriculture
…illustrated an important early connection between agricultural markets, government information and emerging communications technology. USDA Market Broadcasts Expand Across the Country Agricultural radio broadcasting grew rapidly during its early years….