PLOWSHARES TO PRINTOUTS:FARM MANAGEMENT Format: Hardcover

This book offers lively review of one of the most overlooked and yet critical factors in farm management. Farming, probably more than any other industry, has chronically suffered from poor or indifferent management. This is an account of how business-like, management-oriented farmers have succeeded through the erratic economic cycles and may provide insight into the future of American agriculture.

Hiram M. Drache grew up in a small farming village and spent much of his early life working at every task in the era of horsepower farming. After experiencing combat as a B-17 lead navigator in WW-II, he received his B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College, his M.A. from the University of Minnesota, and Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota. He has worked in various businesses and purchased his first farm in 1950. From 1952 to 1991 he was a professor of history at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. He is currently historian-in-residence at Concordia where he writes full time.