Sandra S. Batie, in Issues in Science and Poor Farming Technology (Fall 19851, 2101 constitution
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The Great Farm Shakeout, as the newspapers call the current agricultural crisis, has awakened America to the financial mismanagement of many of the nation's farms. Yet money troubles are only half the story, contends Batie, an agricultural economist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Batie argues that sloppy, shortsighted farming practices have damaged untold acres and...