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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... farm policy should pro- mote profitability . In this connection , those of ... farm policy , as well as previous farm programs , namely , payment limitations ... program , that you maintain the existing structure , the flexibility , AMTA ...
... farm policy should pro- mote profitability . In this connection , those of ... farm policy , as well as previous farm programs , namely , payment limitations ... program , that you maintain the existing structure , the flexibility , AMTA ...
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... farm programs . A farm program should be designed to operate in a supportive fashion while producers seek to balance production with market requirements and bargain collectively for profitable prices . It should not be an income relief ...
... farm programs . A farm program should be designed to operate in a supportive fashion while producers seek to balance production with market requirements and bargain collectively for profitable prices . It should not be an income relief ...
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... farm program crops , delegates to the American Farm Bureau Fed- eration's annual meeting earlier this year adopted a resolution supporting imple- mentation of a countercyclical safety net as a supplement to the Agricultural Mar- ket ...
... farm program crops , delegates to the American Farm Bureau Fed- eration's annual meeting earlier this year adopted a resolution supporting imple- mentation of a countercyclical safety net as a supplement to the Agricultural Mar- ket ...
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... farm programs . A farm program should be designed to operate in a supportive fashion , while pro- ducers seek to balance production with market requirements and bargain collec- tively for profitable prices . An acceptable farm program ...
... farm programs . A farm program should be designed to operate in a supportive fashion , while pro- ducers seek to balance production with market requirements and bargain collec- tively for profitable prices . An acceptable farm program ...
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... Agriculture. the U.S. sugar industry will suffer unless our government takes action to protect its producers . Finally , the Freedom to Farm program removed our government's ability to man- age domestic sugar production and gave growers ...
... Agriculture. the U.S. sugar industry will suffer unless our government takes action to protect its producers . Finally , the Freedom to Farm program removed our government's ability to man- age domestic sugar production and gave growers ...
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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.
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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.