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Cattle beet capital : making industrial agriculture in Northern Colorado / Michael Weeks.

"Cattle Beet Capital explores the economic, cultural, and environmental processes and contingencies that shaped the evolution of industrial agriculture in northern Colorado"--

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Weeks, Michael (Historian) (Author)
Other title:	Making industrial agriculture in Northern Colorado.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Cattle > Feeding and feeds > Colorado. Cattle trade > Colorado. Beef industry > Colorado. Cattle trade. Cattle > Feeding and feeds. Beef industry. Colorado.

Table of Contents:

1.
Cultivating a Regional Agroecology
2.
Capitalism and Sustainable Farming
3.
Beet Biology and the Nature of Labor
4.
Piedmont Sugar and the State of Science
5.
The Economics of Mechanization and Watershed Engineering
6.
Building the Petrochemical Paradigm
7.
Manufacturing Beef.