Wheeler McMillen (1893–1992) was an American farmer and journalist who chronicled the profound changes in 20th-century American agriculture. He was the editor-in-chief of Farm Journal (1939–55,) America’s most prominent periodical dedicated to agriculture, and an author and lecturer on social and economic problems of agriculture in the United States.
Born on a 125-acre family farm near Ada, Ohio, McMillen attended Northern Ohio University, which later conferred an honorary doctorate. After graduation, he worked for newspapers in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. In 1922, he moved to New York City to be an editor on Farm and Fireside until 1939. As editor editor-in-chief of the Farm Journal, McMillen pioneered the industrial uses for crops and previously wasted byproducts.
McMillen’s 15 books included Too Many Farmers (1929) and Feeding Multitudes: A History of What Made America Rich (1981.)
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All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself.
—Wheeler McMillen
Topics: Business
All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.
—Wheeler McMillen
Topics: Progress
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