Gracy Olmstead, Farming, Localism, and Rootedness
Conservative Conversations with ISI
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The Evolution of Agriculture
In the 1900s, early 1900s, farmers responded to a world where one by growing a glut of grain that had some ecological damage. But when that resulted in a massive downturn and in the environmental damage of the dust bowl, we didn't necessarily pull back or start growing less. And indeed into World War II, the language in the USDA surrounding agriculture was that farmers were no longer local producers working for their own communities,. but rather cogs in this giant economic machine.
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