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This chapter reviews the industrialization and restructuring of an increasingly integrated agro-food system in North America (i.e., the USA and Canada). Three premises support this review: (1) that the North American agro-food system has been dominated by the Fordist industrial model from early in its European development, and that its evolution can be best understood based on the persistence of that model; (2) that the dominant operational model, underlying greater contemporary corporate integration of the various sectors of the agro-food system, and its continental configuration, has a strongly (neo-)Fordist (rather than a post-Fordist) orientation; and (3) that the underlying frames of reference, namely, government policies and public and private research agendas, for both the farm sector and throughout agribusiness in North America, have always been, and remain strongly productivist.

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