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Of men and machines: Technological change and people in agriculture Part 1: Changes in farm enterprises and farm families

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Ann Foley Scheuring, Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences, U.C., Davis

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California Agriculture 34(1):4-7.

Published January 01, 1980

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Culled from 600 pages of oral history are some recollections of northern California farm families about how technology has changed farming-and its landscape. Farming was hard work in the old days, but it had its rewards. Farming is still hard work today, but there are fewer hands needed to do it.

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Orville E. Thompson is a Professor in the Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences, U.C., Davis.

—Photos courtesy of F. Hal Higgins Library of Agricultural Technology, University of California Library, Davis

Of men and machines: Technological change and people in agriculture Part 1: Changes in farm enterprises and farm families

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Of men and machines: Technological change and people in agriculture Part 1: Changes in farm enterprises and farm families

California Agriculture > Volume 34 > Number 1  > research article 

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Authors

Ann Foley Scheuring, Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences, U.C., Davis

Publication Information

California Agriculture 34(1):4-7.

Published January 01, 1980

PDF  |  Citation  |  Permissions

Author Affiliations show

Abstract

Culled from 600 pages of oral history are some recollections of northern California farm families about how technology has changed farming-and its landscape. Farming was hard work in the old days, but it had its rewards. Farming is still hard work today, but there are fewer hands needed to do it.

Full text

Full text is available in PDF.

Author notes

Orville E. Thompson is a Professor in the Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences, U.C., Davis.

—Photos courtesy of F. Hal Higgins Library of Agricultural Technology, University of California Library, Davis

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