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The Takeover - Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness (Hardcover)
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The Takeover - Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness (Hardcover)
Series: Environmental History and the American South
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Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as
the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from
Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day,
Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of
semivertical integration perfected a number of practices that had
first underpinned the cotton-growing crop-lien system, ultimately
transforming the poultry industry in ways that drove tens of
thousands of farmers off the land and rendered those who remained
dependent on large agribusiness firms. Gisolfi argues that the
inequalities inherent in the structure of modern poultry farming
have led to steep human and environmental costs. Agribusiness
firms-many of them descended from the cotton-era South's furnishing
merchants-brought farmers into a system of feed-conversion
contracts that placed all production decisions in the hands of the
poultry corporations but at least half of the capital risks on the
farmers. Along the way, the federal government aided and
abetted-sometimes unwittingly-the consolidation of power by poultry
firms through direct and indirect subsidies and favorable policies.
Drawing on USDA files, oral history, congressional records, and
poultry publications, Gisolfi puts a local face on one of the
twentieth century's silent agribusiness revolutions.
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