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Farming History

Farming in the 1920s

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?

Controlling Weeds
Killing Bugs One at a Time

The Start of Groundwater Irrigation
Windmills

Crops Grown in 1920s Nebraska
Livestock Raised in 1920s Nebraska
Rotating Crops
Selecting the Best Seeds

Chores and Work
School
Social and Community Activities

Chores and Work
School
Social and Community Activities

Chores and Work
Making Food
Social and Community Activities
Threshing Season

Chores and Work
School
Holidays
Social and Community Activities

World Events

Farming in the 1930s

“Tractored Out”
Technological Advances
Plowing
Planting
Picking Corn
Harvesting Wheat
Tractors
Cultivating

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

Backlash - the FDA
DDT
Early Pesticides
Grasshoppers are Coming
Herbicides

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

Farming in the 1940s

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

Antibiotics & Additives
Barns – Functions & Forms
Breeding & Insemination
Changing Crops, Soybeans
Fertilizer Explodes
Hybrids, Fertilizer & Irrigation
Livestock Grows
Storing the Bounty
Veterinary Medicine
Victory Gardens

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

Information Age Begins

Labor Shortages

POWs Work the Fields

Rural Banking

The Marshall Plan

Transportation

UNRRA & Private Relief

Aerial Crop Dusting
Biological Controls
Delta Airlines
Herbicides, 2,4-D +
Insecticides, DDT +
Pesticide Regulations

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

Farming in the 50s and 60s

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

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

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

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

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

Climate Change

Computers as a Tool

Harvest Technology

Planter Technology

Tillage Technology

AGCO Tractors
Claas Tractors
CNH, Case New Holland Tractors
John Deere Tractors
Other Tractor Manufacturers

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?

New Agricultural Markets

Women on the Farm

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