Farm to Taber
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Why Doesn't The US Make Farmers Like We Used To?
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February 8, 2026
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14:14Now PlayingI promised a video on "How farming became conservative" to Patreon followers months ago, so here it is! And it's already becoming a miniseries. There's a LOT to unpack in the history of US agriculture. Consider this video Episode 1.
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Sources:
The Farm Bloc. Wesley McCune, 1943. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.
Henry A. Wallace's Turn Toward the New Deal, 19211924. Richard S. Kirkendall. The Annals of Iowa, 49(3)221239.
Possession and PowerThe Legal Culture of Tenancy in the United States, 18001920. Adam Wolkoff, 2015.
The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America. 2016. Gabriel Rosenberg. University of Pennsylvania Pres.
The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas. 2018. James D. Ross. The University of Tennessee Press.
Developing Dependence, Encountering Resistance: The Historical Ethnoecology of Farming in the Missouri Ozarks. Brian Campbell, 1998. (This article has a real BS-sounding title, but it has a GREAT deep dive on how the Farm Bureau was set up to benefit the wealthiest farmers.)
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