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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... effects on our rural communities and our families and friends every day . My goal here today is to hear directly from farmers and their business partners on how to assure that we produce the safest and most nutritious food supply and ...
... effects on our rural communities and our families and friends every day . My goal here today is to hear directly from farmers and their business partners on how to assure that we produce the safest and most nutritious food supply and ...
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... effect on the economy of agriculturals . Mr. OSE . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . The CHAIRMAN . Mr. Thompson . Mr. THOMPSON of California . Thank you , Mr. Chairman , I just have one point I'd like to make and get some reaction from the ...
... effect on the economy of agriculturals . Mr. OSE . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . The CHAIRMAN . Mr. Thompson . Mr. THOMPSON of California . Thank you , Mr. Chairman , I just have one point I'd like to make and get some reaction from the ...
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... effect of , " It's too bad we don't have wine here , " people say , " Well , just buy a bottle of wine from somewhere else . " But the fact of the matter is that we have a $ 33 billion industry in California ; it has become critical ...
... effect of , " It's too bad we don't have wine here , " people say , " Well , just buy a bottle of wine from somewhere else . " But the fact of the matter is that we have a $ 33 billion industry in California ; it has become critical ...
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... effect in some form or another . In the past , it has amounted to about $ 20 per ton making it impossible for western U.S. hay pro- ducers to compete . Therefore , I respectfully request our Govern- ment to look into this situation ...
... effect in some form or another . In the past , it has amounted to about $ 20 per ton making it impossible for western U.S. hay pro- ducers to compete . Therefore , I respectfully request our Govern- ment to look into this situation ...
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... effect both for the environment and for taking some mar- ginal acreage out of production , thus potentially tightening up sup- ply and demand . Mr. Chairman , to sum up , our recommendations are to support the current legislation until ...
... effect both for the environment and for taking some mar- ginal acreage out of production , thus potentially tightening up sup- ply and demand . Mr. Chairman , to sum up , our recommendations are to support the current legislation until ...
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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.