Something To Chew On - Global Food Systems At Kansas State University

The history of agriculture can be viewed from many different perspectives including breeding crops with improved quality and yield characteristics, understanding fertilization requirements, challenges with water and weather patterns, but there are also historic social and political accounts that had profound effect on the landscape of today’s farming communities.  In this podcast,  Dr. Bonnie Lynn-Sherow shares a sobering look at some of the challenging  events uncovered by her research as she dug into changes that occurred in land ownership and farming practices of white settlers, Native Americans and African Americans on the United States great plains.