THE FUTURE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN GRANARY: POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS IN NORTH AMERICAN AGRICULTURE

The proceedings of a conference jointly sponsored by the University of Minnesota Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics and the Hubert H, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. The focus was the "grain sector of North America, stretching geographically from the Ohio Valley to the wheat-growing region of the West, north to the Great Plains of Canada and east across the Prairie Provinces to the upper Great Lakes region." The principal topics were: The Politics and Economics of North American Grain Production; Climate Change and Great Plains Agriculture; Resource Constraints to Grain Production; and The Future: Technical and Institutional Innovation in North American Agriculture. Cleveland, Freeman, Goldberg, Schuh and Schwinden were among the participants. 16 chapters, 238 pages, with tables, figures, charts, maps, a half-tone, and Index; plus Contents, Introduction and Overview, Acknowledgements, and Contributors; References at the end of each paper. Covers are sound; text is clean and strong.…