Farm Business Management Data and Practices in the North James Area

The farmer today is in an unfavorable position economically. The costs of farming have increased steadily over the past several years, while farm product prices have declined. According to statistics published by the Federal Crop and Livestock Reporting Service, South Dakota farmers in 1956 paid 115 percent of 1947-49 prices for goods and services received, while receiving approximately 75 percent of 1947-49 prices for farm products. Because of this “cost-price squeeze,” the farm operator must continually adjust his management practices to changing conditions if he is to maintain or increase his income and level of living. This requires a careful and thorough analysis of each year’s operations, in order to locate the areas of low efficiency and make changes which will increase returns. In attempting to locate areas of inefficiency, it is advantageous to a farmer if he can compare his farm operations with those of other farms of a similar type. The farmer also needs information concerning the costs and returns which might be expected on enterprises other than those on his own farm. This information can be used for setting up alternative budgets for his farm. It is the purpose of this study to obtain data on organization, costs, and returns for farms in the North James Area of eastern South Dakota, to be used by farm operators in this area for purposes of comparison and information. The data can also be used by those contemplating farming in the area, as a guide to the costs and returns which might be expected

We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: Human Rights and Us/U.S.

Since 2002, SSF, internationally, has been at the forefront of an epistemological revolution within sociology. Specifically, SSF-US has had the difficult task of bringing the United States into a critical dialogue with other voices and perspectives – voices which are much more deeply rooted in human rights than most United Statesian sociologists. In this article, I outline eight ways to underscore the Hopi saying that, we are the ones we\u27ve been waiting for : 1) remapping our cognitions away from individualism and capitalism; 2) socializing for humanity, not citizenry; 3) recognizing our common needs and common vulnerabilities; 4) creating new identities and respect for new identities rooted in variation; 5) creating human rights spaces, places, and cities; 6) utilizing locally the new UN mechanisms for human rights tracking; 7) revising the U.S. constitution, and 8) creating a new science of liberation – a sociology without borders

Farm Business Management Data and Practices in South Dakota: 1956 Annual Report

This project, Farm Business Management Data and Practices , was set up to begin in 1955, with farmers and ranchers in the seven types-of-farming areas in South Dakota keeping records on receipts, expenses, inventories, and other items and having their books analyzed by the Agricultural Experiment Station Economics Department at the end of the year. Only a few participated the first year, but in 1956 a total of 57 cooperators turned in record books for analysis. The purpose of this project if to obtain data on costs, returns, and organization on farms and ranches of various types in the different types-of-farming areas of the state, for use by the Experiment Station, the Extension Service, and the College croper, in farm planning, budgeting, and teaching. At the same time, it provides information to the cooperators as to the efficiency of their operations and how they cooperate with the other participants. The analysis of a farm or ranch business helps to locate weak spots and opportunities for improving efficiency and income. The data from the records and analysis can also be used by other farmers and ranchers for purposes of comparison with their own. Unlike many farm record routes, this project involves no fees to be paid by the cooperator. All costs of record books, visits, and analysis are borne by the Station. Cooperators are visited two or three times a year by the project leader or his representative. Records kept include farm inventories, cash receipts and expenses, feed consumed by the various classes of livestock, family living secured from the farm, livestock births, deaths, and transfers, and crops produced. This project represents the first attempt to obtain farm record information from all of the areas of the state. From 19h3 to 1952, projects were carried on in the North Central and Southeastern areas, but no work vas done in the rest of the state. Feed records were also included for the first time, in an attempt to obtain information as to returns from and profitability of the different livestock enterprises

Reborn: A Note From the Editors

In the Fall of 2009 Brill, confronted with budget challenges, chose to terminate its publication of Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences. There were two ways to respond to this change: shop the journal to other publishers or look into a closer relationship with Sociologists Without Borders/ Sociólogos Sin Fronteras (SSF). The answer was clear almost immediately—we should look for a way for SSF to publish Societies Without Borders. This would free us from the tides of capitalism and allow SSF to push the boundaries of what it means to publish in academic journals. The first step for the new iteration of Societies Without Borders was the naming of a new editorial staff. Three co-editors, David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, and Mark Frezzo guide the new journal with extensive assistance from our Editorial Collective. Members of the editorial collective offer leadership and guidance, in addition to offering thoughtful reviews of submitted articles. As both readers and authors they constructively contribute to, critique, and shape the new Societies Without Borders. It is with this first issue of Volume V that we are beginning to establish new norms of what it means to publish and read academic journal articles. Societies Without Borders is now open source—the content is freely available to all readers. The journal is solely published at www.societieswithoutborders.org, with subscription services and updates offered via email. Signing up for an email subscription allows readers to be notified when new content is available. Many double-blind, peer reviewed journals, like Societies Without Borders, have moved to the web to save production and printing costs. There are other advantages to the use of the web for publication. With assistance from Google translate, Societies Without Borders is now available in forty-nine languages. Using a blog format for the journal also allows for continuous dialogue about articles. Under each article, readers may click the “Leave a Comment” button to offer feedback to the author or ask a question of the community of readers. For authors this is an opportunity to learn how readers receive their work and for readers it is an opportunity to engage ideas in a more dynamic fashion. The use of comments will also create space for community to develop. In this way the journal is not only talking about human rights and social sciences, it is also a way of doing human rights as social scientists. In addition to changing the way we read and analyze content, Societies Without Borders is changing how we produce academic content. As well as the traditional article and book review formats employed by academic journals, the journal now offers three other ways to publish. In “Expressions of Human Rights” authors are invited to analyze, present, articulate, and express human rights in human societies in poetic or artistic works. Authors of “Living Human Rights” share a view of the ways that people around the world are demanding respect for their human rights. Research notes, commentaries, and shorter analyses and arguments are presented in “Notes from the Field.” To maintain academic integrity, articles are double blind peer-reviewed, the editors review “Notes from the Field,” and jury of artists evaluates submissions for “Expressions of Human Rights.” For Societies Without Borders to achieve its goal of being a journal of Human Rights and the Social Sciences, we rely upon you—the reader and author—to participate in myriad ways to make this a vibrant space. Our human rights city is unbound, but it can only thrive with active civic engagement. Join us

Reborn: A Note From the Editors

In the Fall of 2009 Brill, confronted with budget challenges, chose to terminate its publication of Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences. There were two ways to respond to this change: shop the journal to other publishers or look into a closer relationship with Sociologists Without Borders/ Sociólogos Sin Fronteras (SSF). The answer was clear almost immediately—we should look for a way for SSF to publish Societies Without Borders. This would free us from the tides of capitalism and allow SSF to push the boundaries of what it means to publish in academic journals. The first step for the new iteration of Societies Without Borders was the naming of a new editorial staff. Three co-editors, David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, and Mark Frezzo guide the new journal with extensive assistance from our Editorial Collective. Members of the editorial collective offer leadership and guidance, in addition to offering thoughtful reviews of submitted articles. As both readers and authors they constructively contribute to, critique, and shape the new Societies Without Borders. It is with this first issue of Volume V that we are beginning to establish new norms of what it means to publish and read academic journal articles. Societies Without Borders is now open source—the content is freely available to all readers. The journal is solely published at www.societieswithoutborders.org, with subscription services and updates offered via email. Signing up for an email subscription allows readers to be notified when new content is available. Many double-blind, peer reviewed journals, like Societies Without Borders, have moved to the web to save production and printing costs. There are other advantages to the use of the web for publication. With assistance from Google translate, Societies Without Borders is now available in forty-nine languages. Using a blog format for the journal also allows for continuous dialogue about articles. Under each article, readers may click the “Leave a Comment” button to offer feedback to the author or ask a question of the community of readers. For authors this is an opportunity to learn how readers receive their work and for readers it is an opportunity to engage ideas in a more dynamic fashion. The use of comments will also create space for community to develop. In this way the journal is not only talking about human rights and social sciences, it is also a way of doing human rights as social scientists. In addition to changing the way we read and analyze content, Societies Without Borders is changing how we produce academic content. As well as the traditional article and book review formats employed by academic journals, the journal now offers three other ways to publish. In “Expressions of Human Rights” authors are invited to analyze, present, articulate, and express human rights in human societies in poetic or artistic works. Authors of “Living Human Rights” share a view of the ways that people around the world are demanding respect for their human rights. Research notes, commentaries, and shorter analyses and arguments are presented in “Notes from the Field.” To maintain academic integrity, articles are double blind peer-reviewed, the editors review “Notes from the Field,” and jury of artists evaluates submissions for “Expressions of Human Rights.” For Societies Without Borders to achieve its goal of being a journal of Human Rights and the Social Sciences, we rely upon you—the reader and author—to participate in myriad ways to make this a vibrant space. Our human rights city is unbound, but it can only thrive with active civic engagement. Join us