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Tables of Contents for The Development of Modern Agriculture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables
vii
List of Figures
ix
Foreword
xi
Tom Blundell
Acknowledgements
xv
List of Abbreviations
xvi
Introduction
1
7
British Agriculture in the 1930s
8
28
Agricultural depression
8
2
Arable farming
10
2
Livestock production
12
3
Demise of the horse economy
15
2
Stratification of landed society
17
5
Agricultural research and education
22
1
Government intervention
23
5
Preparations for war
28
8
The Second Food-Production Campaign
36
31
State intervention
36
7
War Agricultural Executive Committees
43
4
Wartime achievements
47
11
The state and the farmer: financial incentives
58
2
Enforcement of policy
60
3
Opposition to state directives
63
4
The Role of the State
67
27
The postwar Labour government
67
2
Postwar legislation and the 1947 Agriculture Act
69
3
The postwar food-production campaign
72
5
Marketing boards
77
2
The deficiency payment system and annual price reviews
79
4
The 1957 Agriculture Act and the small farmer
83
3
Rationalization of agricultural support and import controls
86
2
Agricultural expansion in the 1960s
88
3
Agricultural education and the advisory services
91
3
The Scientific and Technological Revolution
94
39
Land utilization and arable output
94
4
Plant breeding
98
3
Weed and pest control
101
1
Soil fertility and artificial fertilizers
102
3
Mechanization
105
2
The intensification of livestock farming
107
4
Dairy and beef production
111
7
Sheep production
118
2
Pig production
120
5
Egg and poultry production
125
4
Innovation and the effect on farm size
129
4
The Common Agricultural Policy
133
34
The Treaty of Rome
134
2
The development of the common agricultural policy
136
3
Britain's entry into the EC and the cost of the CAP
139
5
The emergence of food surpluses: causal factors
144
3
Farm incomes
147
3
Agricultural price support: the capitalization of land values
150
5
EC policies for rural areas
155
2
Rationalization of the price support mechanism
157
4
The McSharry reforms of the CAP
161
6
Agricultural Development and Britain's Natural Heritage
167
29
The rural landscape: preservation and access
167
3
Farming and biodiversity
170
5
Environmental protection: the Wildlife and Countryside Act
175
3
Agricultural policies for Environmentally Sensitive Areas
178
3
The conservation of British livestock
181
2
Sustainable agriculture: organic farming
183
4
Agricultural change and rural life
187
3
The changing role of British farmers
190
6
Epilogue: Modern Agriculture
196
7
Notes
203
28
Index
231