Farming History 1920s Farming in the 1920s Machines Fixing Machinery Plowing Planting Fertilizing Picking Corn Picking Corn-kazi Harvesting Wheat Tractors Making Money Air Travel in the 1920s Automobile Travel in Nebraska Milling Wheat into Flour Moving Livestock to Market To Market to Market What is a Cash Crop? Pests Controlling Weeds Killing Bugs One at a Time Water The Start of Groundwater Irrigation Windmills Crops Crops Grown in 1920s Nebraska Livestock Raised in 1920s Nebraska Rotating Crops Selecting the Best Seeds Farm Life Fall Chores and Work School Social and Community Activities Spring Chores and Work School Social and Community Activities Summer Chores and Work Making Food Social and Community Activities Threshing Season Winter Chores and Work School Holidays Social and Community Activities World Events 1930s Farming in the 1930s Machines “Tractored Out” Technological Advances Plowing Planting Picking Corn Harvesting Wheat Tractors Cultivating Farm Life Accidents & Illnesses Bringing Electricity Building the Lines Changing Farm Work Changing Rural Homes Chores Community Churches Crime Dancing Dating Diversity in Religion Family Time Feeding the Family Flour Sack Clothes Foodways Going to School Gypsies Having Fun Impact of the REA Indoor Plumbing Jazz Migration In Migration Out Minorities Movies Prohibition of Alcohol Radio School Days School Programs Surviving the Weather The KKK Who Lived in York Co.? Crops Animal Hybrids Conservation Contour Plowing Crop Rotation Cropping Patterns Culling the Herds Different Breeds, Purposes Fertilizers Henry A. Wallace Henry Beachell Hybrid Crops Livestock Planting & Harvesting Selective Breeding Shelterbelts The Science of Hybrids Pests Backlash - the FDA DDT Early Pesticides Grasshoppers are Coming Herbicides Water AAA Calling Off School CCC Farm Numbers Decline FSA FSA Co-op Farmsteads FSA Photographers Groundwater Irrigation Hitchhiking Irrigation Irrigation Techniques Kingsley Dam New Deal Farm Laws No Water, No Crops Okies Red Dust Riding the Rails Surface Water Irrigation Tall Tales The Dust Bowl World Events 1940s Farming in the 1940s Machines A Jeep is a Jeep, Right? Allis Chalmers Tractors Case Tractors Cultivators Fertilizing Fixing Machinery Ford-Ferguson Tractors Haying Equipment Horses Lose their Jobs Hydraulics IH Farmall Tractors John Deere Tractors Planters Postwar Technology REA in the Field & Barn Self-Propelled Combines Surplus Everywhere Tractor Innovations Vise Grip Crops Antibiotics & Additives Barns – Functions & Forms Breeding & Insemination Changing Crops, Soybeans Fertilizer Explodes Hybrids, Fertilizer & Irrigation Livestock Grows Storing the Bounty Veterinary Medicine Victory Gardens Farm Life Building Bombs & Planes Canteens Greet GIs Changes in Eating Habits Civil Rights for Minorities Conscientious Objectors Drive-Ins Education Enlistments & the Draft Internment in America K-12 & Consolidation Land Grant Universities Local Sports Minorities on Base More Rights for Women Nisei Invade ... Nebraska Normal Life & War Brides Pop Culture at War Postwar Food & Fun Rationing REA Promise Fulfilled Rural Bases Rural Medicine Strains on Rural Housing The Blizzard of ’49 The GI Bill The Home Front TV Turns On War Ends! War Stories Making Money Berlin Airlift Co-ops Expand Economic Boom Exports & Imports Exports & Imports Now Food for Peace Food for War GATT Information Age Begins Labor Shortages POWs Work the Fields Rural Banking The Marshall Plan Transportation UNRRA & Private Relief Pests Aerial Crop Dusting Biological Controls Delta Airlines Herbicides, 2,4-D + Insecticides, DDT + Pesticide Regulations Water Digging Wells Frank Zybach & Pivots From Ditch to Row Gated Pipe Irrigation & Fertilizer John & Gus Thieszen Leveling & Ditching Low Tech to High Tech Mining the Aquifer Missouri River Project Pumps Water Contamination World Events War Stories 50s - 60s Farming in the 50s and 60s Farm Life Duck & Cover Fallout Shelter for Cows Fast Foods Frozen Foods Korean War Life Goes On Living at Ground Zero Movies Music Planting Fields of ICBMs Protests at Home Rural Am. Education Shrinking Farm Numbers Television The Extension Service Transportation Vietnam War Watching an A-Bomb Machines Corn Combines Cotton Harvesting From Barns to Behlen Buildings Harvesting Wheat John Deere Tractors Minimum Tillage Changes Planters & Cultivators Other Tractors in the 1950s and 60s Tractor Pulling J. I. Case Tractors Ford Tractors Massey-Harris Becomes Massey-Ferguson Allis-Chalmers Tractors Tractors Harvest Technology Crops Beef, Feedlots & IBP Borlaug & Beachell Consumer Desires Change Cropping Patterns Diffusion of Information DNA Discovered Fertilizer India & Pakistan Judging Livestock Livestock Patterns Mexico Miracle Rice Oil vs. Ethanol Pork Poultry Sustainable Ag Begins The Green Rev. Legacy The Green Revolution The Golden Age of Pesticides DDT Is Banned and Earth Day Begins Multiple Choices Silent Spring & the Environmental Movement The Environmental Movement Begins The Insect Challenge The Weed Challenge Water Center Pivots Take Over Connections between Surface and Groundwater Exporting Water First Pivots Installed How Pivots Work Making Circles into Squares Nebraska's Unique Natural Resource Districts Other Center Pivot Innovators Robert Daugherty & Valmont State to State Water Agreements The 1950s Worldwide Boom in Irrigation Valmont's Center Pivot Patent Runs Out Water Wars Other Tractors in the 1950s and 60s Making Money Ag Lobbies Washington Agribusiness Farm Families Going to the City Farmers Teach Wall Street Futures Farming for the Government Food for Peace Food Stamps IBP & Boxed Beef Ike's Farm Programs JFK's Farm Programs Johnson's Farm Programs Sales Day Supermarkets Dominate The Kitchen Debate The Rise & Fall of the Omaha Stockyards Truman's Farm Program World Events 1970s - Today Farming in the 70s to Today Farm Life City Problems Come Home Demographic Changes "Average" Farmers Declining Towns Raising Kids Internet Connections Modern Immigration A Nation of Immigrants Language, Ed. & Culture The New Wave The Political Debate Rural Pop Culture Movies Music & Radio TV & Satellites Rural Recruits Machines Climate Change Computers as a Tool Harvest Technology Planter Technology Tillage Technology Tractors AGCO Tractors Claas Tractors CNH, Case New Holland Tractors John Deere Tractors Other Tractor Manufacturers Crops Biofuels/Ethanol Biofuel Obstacles Future Sources of Ethanol Global Production of Ethanol Changes in the Meat Industry Crops & Climate Change Grown Up Fertilizer Industry Sustainable Agriculture Organic Farming The GMO Age Begins "Pharm" Animals & Plants Bt & Roundup Ready Crops Patenting Genes The GMO Backlash The Green Revolution Phase II Crops & Climate Change Pests & Weeds Grown Up Fertilizer Industry GMOs & Pesticides Chemical Companies Buy Seed Companies How Herbicides Work Atrazine The Herbicide 2, 4-D How Insecticides Work Insecticides – DDT's Rise, Fall & Rise Again Organic Agriculture & Pesticides The EPA, the Endangered Species Act & Pesticides Making Money Farm Boom of the 1970s Farm STRIKE Food Price Hikes Farm Bust of the 1980s Afghan Boycott Foreclosures & Bank Failures Government Subsidies An End to Agricultural Subsidies? 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