Profitable ploughing of the uplands?: The food production campaign in the First World War

Pages & Document Description:
205 - 228; figs; refs
URL/DOI:
http://www.bahs.org.uk/
Author:
Crowe, Hilary
Abstract:
The paper considers the financial effects of the government's direction of agriculture in the pastoral uplands of England during the Great War through a study of the West Ward of Westmorland. The policy enforced a shift to arable cultivation in areas unsuited to it. The paper shows that it was the most marginal farmers at the highest elevations who were least disrupted by wartime direction and who saw the greatest increases in net cash returns.
Dataset:
BIAB
Classifications:
9E, 9G

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