> "Agricultural Industrialization in the American Countryside"
> A New Report from the Wallace Institute
>
>
> The spread of large confined-animal facilities is dividing many rural
> communities. These industrial farms share the countryside with an
> increasingly diverse set of neighbors--including other farmers, nonfarm
> residents and businesses, and recreationists--those diverse interests have
> spawned conflict. Accounts from Oklahoma, North Carolina, Iowa, and other
> states tell how divisive issues, such as managing air and water pollution,
> have pitted farmer against farmer, rural neighbor against farmer, rural
> townspeople against immigrant farm laborers, environmental advocates
> against agri-business, and local versus state governments.
>
> With such contentious problems confounding the search for constructive
> solutions, the Wallace Institute commissioned Professor Emery Castle of
> Oregon State University to analyze the problems and suggest a constructive
> approach for reducing conflict. Professor Castle's new report, Agricultural
> Industrialization in the American Countryside, offers an approach that all
> rural communities can use to assess and shape the process of agricultural
> industrialization for the greatest benefit to their communities. Those
> participants often are urged by special interests to take an extreme
> position--either to accept industrial agriculture without modification for
> fear of losing economic benefits, or to ban all forms of industrial
> farming. Professor Castle rejects both of these alternatives as unwise or
> unrealistic.
>
> Instead, he urges communities to adopt a "monitor, manage, and modify
> where necessary" approach to ensure that new agricultural enterprises
> support the full complement of rural community objectives. He explains the
> concept of "rural capital stock," comprised of manmade, natural, human, and
> social capital elements, for use in measuring and evaluating the effects of
> industrialized farms. If rural communities conserve their total rural
> capital, they have the best chance to achieve economic, environmental, and
> social vibrancy well into the future.
>
> Copies of the Wallace Institute's new report are available for $10.00
> each, or may be viewed or printed from the Institute's Web site
> (http://www.hawiaa.org) after November 6, 1998.
>
> Henry A Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture
> 9200 Edmonston Rd Ste 117
> Greenbelt MD 20770-1551
>
> Phone: 301-441-8777
> Fax: 301-220-0164
> Web site: www.hawiaa.org
>
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