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Ebbs and Flows, Water and Agriculture
The 2025 meeting of the Agricultural History Society will convene in St. Paul, Minnesota. As we gather on the banks of the Mississippi River, in the state aptly nicknamed the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, we invite scholars to engage with the twin themes of water and agriculture.
From its origins thousands of years ago, to its present and future in the context of the climate crisis, agriculture is interlocked with water. Evolutions and revolutions of farming across time and space have paralleled evolutions and revolutions in how human societies have understood and used water in its many forms. Water is a necessary, but also highly contested, element of production. Its relationship with agriculture is profoundly political.
Agricultural historians have long strived to capture the historical complexity of this relationship, and agricultural history serves as an ideal terrain for encounters among a broad range of historiographical approaches and diverse perspectives: from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences; and from within and beyond academia. We envisage this conference as an opportunity to sustain and expand this cross-disciplinary conversation on the water-agriculture nexus.