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Culture shapes farm consolidation in Illinois communities
Sociologist Sonya Salamon, in Prairie Patrimony, analyzes seven Illinois farming areas with Yankee and German heritages from 1890 to today. She finds inheritance beliefs, succession support, and land meanings shape farm size, ownership, and transfers with Yankees viewing land as a commodity and Germans prioritizing keeping farms in the family.
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University of Illinois
Sonya Salamon
Illinois
Rman
Val Farmer
Rapid City
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