American agriculture has undergone dramatic transformations in the four decades that have passed since the end of World War II. The most obvious is the decline in the number of people living and working on farms. Wisconsin generally reflects many of these national trends. In 1945 the agricultural census reported 177,745 farms in Wisconsin. By 198
American agriculture has undergone dramatic transformations in the four decades that have passed since the end of World War II. This book seeks to uncover not only the underlying social relations of agricultural farming and production but the way m which those social relations influence agrarian politics, ideology, and social change.
