Adam Romero receives Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project

Fumigants for stored grains, 1955.

Adam Romero received a Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food. The book examines the relationship between the massive growth of industrial farm chemicals after 1945 and the chronic problem of vast agricultural surpluses. It begins with a simple question: why did American farmers use so many industrial chemicals in the post-WWII period? Stay tuned. Find out.