Posts Tagged ‘farm economy’
Statement to the Hearing of the Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power Committee on Energy and Commerce | 1983
Excerpt: “Energy is an essential input for agriculture, which uses more petroleum than any other single industry. It accounts for about three percent of annual energy consumption nationally, equivalent to about 353 million barrels of oil a year. The energy input into agricultural production has increased fivefold since 1940. Most of this increase is due…
Read MoreBook Chapter in “Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy” – Toward Energy Self-Sufficiency: The Small Farm Energy Project Experience | 1982
Excerpt from: Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy, Copyright • 1982 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science 3. Toward Energy Self-Sufficiency: The Small Farm Energy Project Experience Roger Blobaum The concept of energy self-sufficiency for American agriculture is receiving increasing attention. Steadily rising farm fuel and electricity costs, which totaled…
Read MorePresention At The Caribbean Renewable Energy Symposium, Kingston, Jamaica – Solar Applications in U.S. Agriculture | 1981
Presented by Roger Blobaum, At Caribbean Renewable Energy Symposium, Kingston, Jamaica, July 28-30, 1981 Although the agricultural production system consumes only about 3 percent of the energy used in the United States, the concept of energy self-sufficiency for agriculture has received a good deal of attention. Steadily rising energy prices and the possibility of supply…
Read MoreStatement for Joint Hearing to the House and Senate on Energy Conservation & Supply | 1979
Statement Prepared By Roger Blobaum, Principal Investor of the Small Farm Energy Project For Joint Hearing of the House Energy Development & Application Subcommittee and Senate Subcommittee on Energy Conservation & Supply Washington, D.C. April 30, 1979 Mr. Chairman, I am appearing today as the principal investigator of the Small Farm Energy Project, a national…
Read MoreStatement to House Agriculture Committee On Energy Saving Innovations Of Small Farmers | 1977
Statement of Roger Blobaum, Roger Blobaum & Associates to the Subcommittee on Family Farms, Rural Development, and Special Studies, House Agriculture Committee, Washington, DC May 24, 1977 Mr. Chairman, I am appearing today as principal investigator of the Small Farm Energy Project, a national research and demonstration project sponsored by the Center for Rural Affairs…
Read MoreResearch Article in “The American Journal of Agricultural Economics” – Economic Performance and Energy Intensiveness on Organic and Conventional Farms | 1977
Economic Performance and Energy Intensiveness on Organic and Conventional Farms in the Corn Belt: A Preliminary Comparison Printed in American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 59, No 1, February 1977 Robert Klepper, William Lockeretz, Barry Commoner, Michael Gertler, Sarah Fast, Daniel O’Leary, and Roger Blobaum Recent energy and environmental problems in U.S. agriculture have stimulated…
Read MoreArticle Published in “The Network Quarterly” – Farmers, Consumers, and Agribusiness | 1976
Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 1976, by Roger Blobaum Probably no other nation had a stronger commitment to a system of family-operated farms and ranches than the United States prior to World War II. The Homestead Act was only one of many laws enacted to carry out the agrarian policies of Jefferson and others who…
Read MoreBook Chapter in “Food For People, Not For Profit” – Wresting Agriculture from Corporate Farmers | 1975
Publisher: Ballantine Books; March 12, 1975 Wresting Agriculture from Corporate Farmers by Roger Blobaum The issue of corporate involvement in agriculture and concentration of land ownership is the farm policy issue of the 1970’s . . . A recent Minneapolis Tribune poll showed 76 percent of the people saying they consider the family farm an efficient…
Read MoreStatement by Roger Blobaum Before Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy Of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Land Ownership And Control | 1974
January 29, 1974 Mr. Chairman, I appreciated very much your invitation to participate in this series of hearings on foreign investments in land, grain terminals, packing plants, and other facilities in this country. Although my work as a consultant involves several policy areas, I have concentrated on the issue of land ownership and control, particularly…
Read MoreSpecial Report published in “The Link Newsletter” – The Family Farm Versus Agribusiness: Will the Corporations Take Over Food Production? | 1973
Connects Ideas and Services for People in Pastoral and Community Ministry SPECIAL REPORT, by Roger Blobaum AUGUST 20, 1973 The Family Farm Vs. Agribusiness: Will Corporations Take Over Food Production? The family farm, an institution that has made American agriculture the most productive in the world and kept the land in the hands of…
Read MoreRemarks at the Land Reform Conference San Francisco | 1973
Roger Blobaum April 26, 1973 I have been asked to report on the impact of corporate involvement in agriculture in the Midwest. The assignment is rather broad because the Midwest is difficult to define, even for us who live there.
Read MoreStatement to the Subcommittee on Monopoly, Senate Small Business Committee | 1971
By Roger Blobaum, 301 West Seneca Street, Creston, Iowa November 23, 1971 I appreciate this opportunity to appear at these hearings, to discuss the movement of conglomerates, integrators and other corporations into agriculture, and to suggest ways to document this corporate activity and bring it to the attention of those who should do something about…
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