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- Milwaukee’s growing population created an increasing demand for meat—particularly among the city’s Northern Europeans. New rail connections between the city and growing hinterland farms provided a steady stock of live cattle and hogs, later augmented by the shipment of livestock from farms and ranches in western states and territories.
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Moreover, Growing Power pushed agriculture in innovative directions within Milwaukee. The farm emerged as a pioneer in aquaponics, a way to combine the growth of produce and fish without using soil. At Growing Power, state-of-the-art aquaponics systems delivered wastewater from the fish tanks to the plant beds above, which took up the nutrients ...
- Michael Carriere
Milwaukee has long dominated the meat packing industry in Wisconsin. The city was producing over three-quarters of the state's processed meat products by 1860 and became nationally known as a center for pork processing.
Milwaukee rose to early prominence as a trader of grain, and the city was the largest shipper of wheat on the planet in the early 1860s. Shipping was joined by processing industries—flour-milling, meat-packing, leather-tanning, and brewing—that turned Wisconsin’s agricultural bounty into useful products.
Jan 26, 2010 · Milwaukee was generally the fourth- or fifth-largest meatpacking industry in the country during the 1870s and ’80s. According to figures from the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, in 1879 meat was, by value of product, the city’s most important industry.
- Sarah Biondich
Meat-packing, tanning, brewing and flour milling were all very viable industries in Milwaukee during the last part of the 19th century. Workers versus Owners Milwaukee’s rapid industrialization following the Civil War had positive as well as negative consequences for the city.
Jan 1, 2010 · By giving students a closer look at how business owners and workers together turned living animals into packages of meat, strips of leather, and bottles of glue, the lesson prompts students to evaluate and refect on the positive and negative consequences of the productivity and effciency so valued by Progressive Era managers and capitalists.
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