| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.3

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Every Farm a Factory The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture

By Deborah Fitzgerald

(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 242. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)

Today the term "factory farm" conjures up images of huge, confined feeding operations (places in which hundreds of thousands of animals are prepared for market on scientifically formulated diets) and of expansive grain farms that cultivate thousands of acres of corn, wheat, and soybeans, all requiring heavy capital investment in equipment, hybrid seed, and chemicals. These trends have indeed exerted a significant impact on agriculture in Indiana. While Clinton County boasts several large hog-feeding operations and DuBois County turkey growers are among the nation's leading producers of birds for the Thanksgiving table, many Hoosier hog farmers find it increasingly difficult to compete with mega-producers in North Carolina and Missouri, and southern Indiana dairy farmers who once milked one hundred cows have ceased operation in the face of competition from western dairies that milk between 2,500 and 10,000 cows. Meanwhile, many Hoosier corn and soybean farmers use computers, global-positioning systems, and other technological innovations to improve productivity, increase acreage, and reduce environmental degradation.

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