106-2 Hearings: Review Of Federal Farm Policy, Serial No. 106-50, Part 2 (Final), May 1, 2000, Etc2000 |
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... payments . Doubled LDP limitations of payments , and renews Step 2 funding . Secretary Glickman's decision to issue generic certifi- cates also was crucial . Now these have all helped cotton growers survive through a very difficult time ...
... payments . Doubled LDP limitations of payments , and renews Step 2 funding . Secretary Glickman's decision to issue generic certifi- cates also was crucial . Now these have all helped cotton growers survive through a very difficult time ...
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... payment limits bears little or no relationship to the economics of western cotton production . Western cotton is high yielding and , because payments are made on the basis of yield , we hit the limits very quickly . Mr. Chairman , I ...
... payment limits bears little or no relationship to the economics of western cotton production . Western cotton is high yielding and , because payments are made on the basis of yield , we hit the limits very quickly . Mr. Chairman , I ...
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... payment was last year , I would hit the limit , the $ 75,000 , at about half my production , about 750 bales . So half of my production and I'm not considered a big farmer . But I would so half of my production would be not protected by ...
... payment was last year , I would hit the limit , the $ 75,000 , at about half my production , about 750 bales . So half of my production and I'm not considered a big farmer . But I would so half of my production would be not protected by ...
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... payments ; however , when the Govern- ment distributed disaster payments , it did not follow through on that commitment . Relief from estate taxes . Farm Bureau policy on estate taxes is clear , eliminate it . Farm Bureau members ...
... payments ; however , when the Govern- ment distributed disaster payments , it did not follow through on that commitment . Relief from estate taxes . Farm Bureau policy on estate taxes is clear , eliminate it . Farm Bureau members ...
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... payments to farmers . Price projections from the March 22 , 2000 USDA Agricultural Outlook indicate the lowest prices for all major commodities in the past 10 to 20 years . However , this is still not the true picture be- cause the ...
... payments to farmers . Price projections from the March 22 , 2000 USDA Agricultural Outlook indicate the lowest prices for all major commodities in the past 10 to 20 years . However , this is still not the true picture be- cause the ...
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Page 1841 - You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
Page 1420 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 1501 - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
Page 1420 - God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
Page 1251 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I would first like to thank you for...
Page 1841 - Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to share my thoughts with you today on the state of EMS readiness for terrorism response.
Page 1066 - Once again, thank you for the opportunity to address the committee. [The prepared statement of Mr.
Page 1107 - Mr. Chairman and Committee members, thank you for the opportunity to testify before the committee regarding the Captive Exotic Animal Protection Act of 1995, HR 1202.
Page 1421 - STATEMENT OF HON. GREG WALDEN, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF OREGON Mr. WALDEN. Thank you very much, Mr.
Page 1647 - I want to thank the committee for allowing me to express my views on...