{"id":403,"date":"2009-03-25T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=403"},"modified":"2009-03-25T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:59:56","slug":"i-do-love-a-good-graph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/i-do-love-a-good-graph\/","title":{"rendered":"I do love a good graph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-406\" title=\"sc02d4e8ef\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sc02d4e8ef-400x279.jpg\" alt=\"sc02d4e8ef\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sc02d4e8ef-400x279.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sc02d4e8ef-1024x715.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This one, courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leopold.iastate.edu\/\">Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture<\/a> at Iowa State, shows the number of crops and livestock produced for sale on one percent of Iowa farms between the years 1920 (far left column) and 2002 (far right).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humansandnature.org\/about_us\/staff\/curt_meine.php\">Kurt Meine<\/a> passed it around the other night as part of his apple talk.\u00a0For a full-size view &#8212; in which you can actually read the words &#8212; go\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leopold.iastate.edu\/pubs\/staff\/files\/farm_enterprises_1204.pdf\">here<\/a>. But, even at this illegible perspective, the drastic decline in diversity comes through loud and clear.<\/p>\n<p>In 1920 84% of Iowa farms (as we&#8217;re supposed to extrapolate from the one- percent sample) produced apples; in 1935, 56%; in 1945, 41%. Nine years later, in 1954, it&#8217;s down to 5%. By 1964 apples are grown by just 2% of Iowa farms, and by 1978 they&#8217;ve fallen off the chart all together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What remains? No big surprise there: Corn. Soy. Hay. Cattle.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean? Still working on that part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This one, courtesy of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State, shows the number of crops and livestock produced for sale on one percent of Iowa farms between the years 1920 (far left column) and 2002 (far right).\u00a0 Kurt Meine passed it around the other night as part of his apple talk.\u00a0For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/i-do-love-a-good-graph\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[113,112],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apples","tag-apple-diversity","tag-kurt-meine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}