Author: Reed Lund FrischknechtPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural administration
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Farm Price and Income Support Programs, 1933-1950
Author: Reed Lund FrischknechtPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural administration
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
History of Agricultural Price-Support and Adjustment Programs, 1933-84 - Background For 1985 Farm Legislation
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research ServicePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Fault Lines of Farm Policy
Author: Jonathan CoppessPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496212525
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
At the intersection of the growing national conversation about our food system and the long-running debate about our government's role in society is the complex farm bill. American farm policy, built on a political coalition of related interests with competing and conflicting demands, has proven incredibly resilient despite development and growth. In The Fault Lines of Farm Policy Jonathan Coppess analyzes the legislative and political history of the farm bill, including the evolution of congressional politics for farm policy. Disputes among the South, the Great Plains, and the Midwest form the primordial fault line that has defined the debate throughout farm policy's history. Because these regions formed the original farm coalition and have played the predominant roles throughout, this study concentrates on the three major commodities produced in these regions: cotton, wheat, and corn. Coppess examines policy development by the political and congressional interests representing these commodities, including basic drivers such as coalition building, external and internal pressures on the coalition and its fault lines, and the impact of commodity prices. This exploration of the political fault lines provides perspectives for future policy discussions and more effective policy outcomes.
Balancing the farm o
Author: History of Agricultural Price-support and Adjustment Programs, 1933-84
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural price supports
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Price-support Program
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and ForestryPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
A Revolution Down on the Farm
Author: Paul K. ConkinPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081313868X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century. Fifty years ago, the planet could not have sustained a population of 6.5 billion; now, commercial and industrial agriculture ensure that millions will not die from starvation. Farmers are able to feed an exponentially growing planet because the greatest industrial revolution in history has occurred in agriculture since 1929, with U.S. farmers leading the way. Productivity on American farms has increased tenfold, even as most small farmers and tenants have been forced to find other work. Today, only 300,000 farms produce approximately ninety percent of the total output, and overproduction, largely subsidized by government programs and policies, has become the hallmark of modern agriculture. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 charts the profound changes in farming that have occurred during author Paul K. Conkin's lifetime. His personal experiences growing up on a small Tennessee farm complement compelling statistical data as he explores America's vast agricultural transformation and considers its social, political, and economic consequences. He examines the history of American agriculture, showing how New Deal innovations evolved into convoluted commodity programs following World War II. Conkin assesses the skills, new technologies, and government policies that helped transform farming in America and suggests how new legislation might affect farming in decades to come. Although the increased production and mechanization of farming has been an economic success story for Americans, the costs are becoming increasingly apparent. Small farmers are put out of business when they cannot compete with giant, non-diversified corporate farms. Caged chickens and hogs in factory-like facilities or confined dairy cattle require massive amounts of chemicals and hormones ultimately ingested by consumers. Fertilizers, new organic chemicals, manure disposal, and genetically modified seeds have introduced environmental problems that are still being discovered. A Revolution Down on the Farm concludes with an evaluation of farming in the twenty-first century and a distinctive meditation on alternatives to our present large scale, mechanized, subsidized, and fossil fuel and chemically dependent system.
The Processing Tax
Author: United States. Agricultural Adjustment AdministrationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Rice Economy of Asia
Author: Randolph BarkerPublisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 0915707152
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the role of rice in the food and agricultural sectors of Asian nations.
Price-support Program: June 1, 3, 7, 9, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30, and July 1, 1955
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and ForestryPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural price supports
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description