Did You Know There Was A Model T of Tractors?

I didn’t.  And now I do. Don’t you just love it when some chance event opens a whole new perspective on some bit of history? That happened to me this…

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Farming, Risk, and the Long Run of History

Farming, Risk, and the Long Run of History

One of the little games I play with myself is seeing if I can tie different parts of my life together in ways that are illuminating, to me at any…

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Puzzles about the family farm

On his blog Applied Mythology, Steve Savage has a nice post on farmers in the US and Canada, with graphs showing how their numbers have dwindled and how efficient they…

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