Posts Tagged ‘protecting farmland’
Chapter 5 in the book “Protecting Farmlands” – Farming on the Urban Fringe | 1984
Chapter 5. Farming on the Urban Fringe Roger J. Blobaum Efforts to preserve agricultural land on the urban fringe put little emphasis on making farms more profitable. Public programs designed to slow farmland losses focus, for the most part, on tax relief. Although this helps, its primary benefit is a modest reduction in production costs.…
Read MoreA speech presented to the American Political Science Association – THE POLITICS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION | 1976
Roger Blobaum, Agricultural Consultant 1976 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. The Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, September 2-5, 1976 Land exploitation and abuse, ranging from ravaged virgin forests to plowed prairie lands that set the stage for terrible dust storms in the 1930s, were almost a way of life in the United States…
Read MoreA speech titled “Energy Efficient Small Family Farms” | 1970s
Energy Efficient Small Family Farms: MAKING FARMING PROFITABLE ON THE URBAN FRINGE By Roger Blobaum, Roger Blobaum & Associates West Des Moines, Iowa Energy Efficient Small Family Farms—Making Farming Profitable on the Urban Fringe” is an intriguing title for a presentation on farmland preservation. There is little in the literature to suggest there is any…
Read MoreA study report to the Citizens Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality – The Loss Of Agricultural Land | 1974
THE LOSS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND By Roger Blobaum, 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 1974 Article excerpt: “The terms “urban,” “suburban,” and “rural” seemed to denote separate worlds where dependence upon each other was obviously acknowledged but not consciously intertwined.” R. Blobaum
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