American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost

By M. Friedberger. 2003

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Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits? (2011, background): “century, suggesting that the desire to obtain a comparable nonagricultural income was the main factor driving changes in the average size of operational holdings (Gardner 2002).”
The Realized Yield Effect of Genetically Engineered Crops: U.S. Maize and Soybean (2013, unknown): “The second half of the 20th century has seen extensive growth in use of artificial fertilizer (Gardner, 2002, use rate for both crops for all years.”
A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System (2015, background): “farms, and it has freed labor to flow to non-farm industries in urban areas (Gardner, 2002; Lobao and Meyer, 2001).”