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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... agricultural sector . So the question we want to answer is , how do we best accomplish that goal ? We want to find out what real producers think is work- ing , and we want to find out what is not working with current Fed- eral farm ...
... agricultural sector . So the question we want to answer is , how do we best accomplish that goal ? We want to find out what real producers think is work- ing , and we want to find out what is not working with current Fed- eral farm ...
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... farms to continue , not only to compete , but to survive . The current farm bill was structured with good intentions , but it did not and could not predict the unusual set of circumstances in this country as well as in the world that ...
... farms to continue , not only to compete , but to survive . The current farm bill was structured with good intentions , but it did not and could not predict the unusual set of circumstances in this country as well as in the world that ...
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... current safety net levels and the current price predictions not favorable at this time , the Government assistance outside the current farm bill will once again be needed to survive in the cotton business . Certainly , the 1999 ...
... current safety net levels and the current price predictions not favorable at this time , the Government assistance outside the current farm bill will once again be needed to survive in the cotton business . Certainly , the 1999 ...
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... current farm bill . Both of these items not only helped cotton growers directly , but they are important in determining the level of the futures market and the basis for cot- ton . Prices for agriculture commodities in general , and ...
... current farm bill . Both of these items not only helped cotton growers directly , but they are important in determining the level of the futures market and the basis for cot- ton . Prices for agriculture commodities in general , and ...
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... current legislation until its expiration in 2002 , maintain the current mechanism for delivering agricultural assistance to produc- ers , oppose targeting agriculture assistance to producers in farm programs because it is ...
... current legislation until its expiration in 2002 , maintain the current mechanism for delivering agricultural assistance to produc- ers , oppose targeting agriculture assistance to producers in farm programs because it is ...
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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...
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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.