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Bryan L. Jones The Farming Game (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Farming Game
- Publication Name
- The Farming Game
- Title
- The Farming Game
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 080327582X
- EAN
- 9780803275829
- ISBN
- 9780803275829
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Social Science
- Topic
- General, Agriculture / General
- Release Date
- 01/03/1995
- Release Year
- 1995
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 246 Pages
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In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging sketches of real farmers, Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels the pull of the land. He accepts the emotional appeal of "going back to the land" and then takes the unconventional stand that, above all, farming can be a good way to make money. Against the grain of public policy that, he maintains, encourages big agriculture, Jones works out how a shrewd, stubborn small farmer can still make a go of it. His keen-eyed sketches of farmers at work show the variety of ways a farmer may succeed or fail. Even his own neighborhood, dominated by thousands of acres of corn and high technology, is peopled with "scalper" who makes a living in the cattle business with little more stake than a gooseneck trailer, a telephone, and his native wits; the sheep man who secretly grows rich while looking poor and raising an animal that other farmer disdain; the experimenter who never turns a nickel himself, but whose successful innovations are readily adopted by his neighbors; the hog raiser who makes a large family pay. The heart of the book is the primer for novices--and for city folk who dream of farming. Jones emphasizes the practicalities of farm finance and recommends sidelines for the beginner--welding, giving guitar lessons, keeping the books for a local elevator--as an alternative to starving. He urges newcomers to start small and to be sure that farming is something they really want to do. To interested bystanders, The Farming Game offers one farmer's audacious, stimulating, and entertaining view of American agriculture today.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
080327582x
ISBN-13
9780803275829
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038662091
Product Key Features
Book Title
Farming Game
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Agriculture / General
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Number of Pages
246 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
S441.J68 1995
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"A former high school teacher turned Nebraska farmer himself, Jones has drawn on his . . . experience to write a lively, practical guide to success or, more often, failure in small farming. What distinguishes The Farming Game from a mere how-to book is the author's sharp eye for the absurd detail in his portraits of people and his descriptions of the lending policies of banks, the government price controls and the production methods of agribusiness that make it difficult for the independent farmer to compete."- New York Times Book Review. , "Bryan Jones is that rare thing, a real farmer who also writes. The Farming Game is the one book I've seen . . . that I would give to someone who was thinking of moving to the country and actually supporting himself or herself off the land. . . . Anyone who picks it up [won't be able to] stop laughing. First at the dozen portraits of different types of farmers. . . .Then at various barbed asides in the three long essays on how farmers can and do make money. . . . Jones has a wicked wit. [And his] book is remarkably educative. Mixed with the humor is a mass of information and analysis. . . . The reality of farming is here as other people very seldom see it."-Noel Perrin, Smithsonian .
Copyright Date
1982
Lccn
94-044844
Dewey Decimal
338.1/0978
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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