US agriculture has become increasingly specialized over the last century with attendant
benefits to food production and affordability. At the same time, specialized agricultural …

Deforestation associated with agricultural expansion, particularly that of extensive cattle
ranching, remains a pressing challenge for sustainable development and climate mitigation …

Since the industrialization of swine production in the late 1900s, swine farms in the United
States, as well as in Europe, have largely become consolidated. Pig farms became larger in …

While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of
industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some …

The industrialization of agriculture not only alters the ways in which agricultural production
occurs, but it also impacts the decisions farmers make in important ways. First, constraints …

This paper takes a multiple theoretical perspective, utilising concepts from the knowledge
exchange and the rural, social networks literatures to explore artisan food enterprise …

The discrepancy between livestock breeding and crop planting in integrated crop-livestock
system (ICLSs) usually cause nutrients surpluses to the arable land. Evaluation of regional …

The untold story of how meat made America: a tale of the self-made magnates, pragmatic
farmers, and impassioned activists who shaped us into the greatest eaters and providers of …

Fugitive dust emissions from cattle feedlots and open lot dairies are substantial. In order to
determine the contribution of intensive cattle operations on ambient PM levels, more …

In this study, we examine the subjective decision-making experiences of cattle ranchers in
the western United States. Using a constructivist grounded-theory framework, we analyse …