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Migration and Adaptation: Developing New Farming Strategies on the American Grasslands, 1875-1925

In: Migrants in Agricultural Development

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  • D. Aidan Mcquillan

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During the final quarter of the nineteenth century the outlines of one of the great grain producing regions of the world gradually crystallised. As the agricultural frontier pushed westwards across the American grasslands in the 1860s and 1870s, farmers from the humid Mississippi lowlands and immigrants from overseas flooded into Kansas and Nebraska, laying the foundations for what would become the winter wheat belt of the ‘North American Breadbasket’. Wheat and corn had vied with one another as the most lucrative cash crop while the frontier moved across the broad Mississippi lowlands in the centre of the continent.1 But as the frontier moved from the humid lowlands to the sub-humid plains, wheat began to win out over corn as environmental factors imposed constraints on farm production. The plains represented a new environmental zone in which a new approach to farming was required.

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  • D. Aidan Mcquillan, 1991. "Migration and Adaptation: Developing New Farming Strategies on the American Grasslands, 1875-1925," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: J. A. Mollett (ed.), Migrants in Agricultural Development, chapter 8, pages 111-131, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11830-4_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11830-4_8
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