title: Agronomy for the steppe: the Development of Dry Farming in the Russian Empire
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metadata.value: Moon, David
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T09:59:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T09:59:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Moon D. Agronomy for the steppe: the Development of Dry Farming in the Russian Empire. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 2, pp. 378–397.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.204
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10283
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The aim of this article is to analyze on the basis of archival and printed sources from both
  Russia and the United States the development of dry farming’ techniques for cultivating grain crops in regions, such as the steppes and the American Great Plains with semi-arid climates,
  where the average, annual precipitation was around or under 400 mm, which was lower than
  in other agricultural regions in both countries, and also unreliable, varying sharply from year
  to year. Both regions also experienced periodic droughts. The article focuses on the steppe
  region in the southern part of the Russian Empire (today’s southern Ukraine and the south of
  the Russian Federation) to the west of the Ural River and Ural mountains, covering the period
  from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Cultivating the soil and keeping
  fallow fields clear of vegetation (chernyi par) in order to conserve scarce moisture are the
  main farming techniques examined in the article. It also compares the techniques devised in
  the steppe regions in the early and mid-nineteenth century with those used later on the Great
  Plains of the United States, where they were promoted as ‘dry farming’. The article recognizes
  that farmers in both the Russian Empire and the United States may have devised similar
  techniques independently as they faced similar challenges, in particular, scarce supplies of
  moisture, but suggests that the American methods may have had their origins in the experience
  of farmers on the steppe. In this regard, it is important to note that among the pioneers
  of such techniques on the steppe were Mennonite farmers who emigrated from the steppes to
  the United States in the 1870s bringing along their methods.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: agriculture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dry farming
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: steppe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: agronomy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: south
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: chernozem
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: grain
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Agronomy for the steppe: the Development of Dry Farming in the Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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