Review of Federal Farm Policy: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 |
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... cost , below - average- yield pear crop in 20 years , all of which , together , caused our worst financial year ever ... cost of agri- culture land in most of the United States . In other words , it costs us a lot more to roll the dice ...
... cost , below - average- yield pear crop in 20 years , all of which , together , caused our worst financial year ever ... cost of agri- culture land in most of the United States . In other words , it costs us a lot more to roll the dice ...
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... cost you to put in many of your specialty crops , what would be a dollar per hundred cost that you and your banker would agree would be a fair cost of providing that kind of insurance on a per - hundred basis , as we deal with home ...
... cost you to put in many of your specialty crops , what would be a dollar per hundred cost that you and your banker would agree would be a fair cost of providing that kind of insurance on a per - hundred basis , as we deal with home ...
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... cost of produc- tion and how that's driving our ability to compete in that world market . Mr. Colombini , do you have any comment on that in terms of the regulatory cost , the political cost , of producing in California right now ? Mr ...
... cost of produc- tion and how that's driving our ability to compete in that world market . Mr. Colombini , do you have any comment on that in terms of the regulatory cost , the political cost , of producing in California right now ? Mr ...
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... costs nearly 70 cents a pound to produce it . Arizona has the highest cost of production per acre in the cotton belt . Irrigation and pest control have always placed Arizona grow- ers at the margin of profitability . Mr. Chairman ...
... costs nearly 70 cents a pound to produce it . Arizona has the highest cost of production per acre in the cotton belt . Irrigation and pest control have always placed Arizona grow- ers at the margin of profitability . Mr. Chairman ...
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... cost of borrowed input , cost of production , something that deals with the high cost areas , but you would collect only 90 percent of what you spend . And this recognizes one of the problems with the cur- rent insurance system is that ...
... cost of borrowed input , cost of production , something that deals with the high cost areas , but you would collect only 90 percent of what you spend . And this recognizes one of the problems with the cur- rent insurance system is that ...
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Page 1822 - 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 1443 - 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 1509 - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
Page 1738 - Drabenstott, director of the Center for the Study of Rural America at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City.
Page 1426 - 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 1259 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I would first like to thank you for...
Page 1822 - Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to share my thoughts with you today on the state of EMS readiness for terrorism response.
Page 1068 - Once again, thank you for the opportunity to address the committee. [The prepared statement of Mr.
Page 1111 - 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 1427 - STATEMENT OF HON. GREG WALDEN, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF OREGON Mr. WALDEN. Thank you very much, Mr.