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

Author

Ann Foley Scheuring

Author Affiliations

Ann Foley Scheuring is a Research Associate in the Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences, U.C., Davis.

Publication Information

Hilgardia 34(1):4-7. DOI:10.3733/ca.v034n01p4. January 1980.

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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.