Great Plains: from green to gold

Duration: 0:22:00

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1965

Creator: Centron Corporation: Publisher | CRM/McGraw-Hill Films: Publisher

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes the development of the great plains area from covered wagons to modern, multicombine harveting. Pictures an early home of the region and shows how the people lived. Shows a modern farm of more than 1,000 acres on which wheat is grown. Shows modern farm machinery in use and explains somethings of the economics of modern farming., Explains the man-land relationships on the Great Plains and considers the economic significance of those relationships. Pictures wheat farms and cattle and sheep ranches and the people who work on them. Discusses modern farming techniques.

Complete Record: , Dramatizes the development of the great plains area from covered wagons to modern, multicombine harveting. Pictures an early home of the region and shows how the people lived. Shows a modern farm of more than 1,000 acres on which wheat is grown. Shows modern farm machinery in use and explains somethings of the economics of modern farming., Explains the man-land relationships on the Great Plains and considers the economic significance of those relationships. Pictures wheat farms and cattle and sheep ranches and the people who work on them. Discusses modern farming techniques.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.