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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... Income Plan , was an idea that we came up with last year in the belief that we ought to have the pay- ments ought to be associated with production , not with historical what you were doing prior to the current farm bill , which was de ...
... Income Plan , was an idea that we came up with last year in the belief that we ought to have the pay- ments ought to be associated with production , not with historical what you were doing prior to the current farm bill , which was de ...
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... income in 2000 is forecast by USDA to be 20 percent below 1999 and the lowest since 1986. USDA's most recent 10 - year baseline farm income projection for 2000 and beyond indicates that farm income will continue to decline sharply into ...
... income in 2000 is forecast by USDA to be 20 percent below 1999 and the lowest since 1986. USDA's most recent 10 - year baseline farm income projection for 2000 and beyond indicates that farm income will continue to decline sharply into ...
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... income crops , many and espe- cially the larger farmers for the most part , are located in areas with soil types not conducive to production of permanent crops like trees and vines or the high income crops like vegetables . Consequently ...
... income crops , many and espe- cially the larger farmers for the most part , are located in areas with soil types not conducive to production of permanent crops like trees and vines or the high income crops like vegetables . Consequently ...
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... income in 2000 is forecast by USDA to be 20 percent below 1999 and the lowest since 1986 . USDA's most recent 10 - year baseline farm income projection for 2000 and beyond indicates that farm income will continue to decline sharply into ...
... income in 2000 is forecast by USDA to be 20 percent below 1999 and the lowest since 1986 . USDA's most recent 10 - year baseline farm income projection for 2000 and beyond indicates that farm income will continue to decline sharply into ...
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... income during the final three crop years covered by the legislation . In the last 2 years , Congress pro- vided much appreciated supplemental income assistance to help farmers through a period of low prices and declining income . Rather ...
... income during the final three crop years covered by the legislation . In the last 2 years , Congress pro- vided much appreciated supplemental income assistance to help farmers through a period of low prices and declining income . Rather ...
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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 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.