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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... percent of the fruits and vegetables that are consumed in this country . Now , if you have a pest like that , it's ... percent of this pest . The other 15 percent , it's expected , would wipe out in its entirety the California grape ...
... percent of the fruits and vegetables that are consumed in this country . Now , if you have a pest like that , it's ... percent of this pest . The other 15 percent , it's expected , would wipe out in its entirety the California grape ...
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... percent is also exported primarily to the Asian mar- kets ; Taiwan is the predominant purchaser of our apples . A certain variety that we grow , the Fuji apple , they actually purchase over 65 percent of that crop . They also purchase ...
... percent is also exported primarily to the Asian mar- kets ; Taiwan is the predominant purchaser of our apples . A certain variety that we grow , the Fuji apple , they actually purchase over 65 percent of that crop . They also purchase ...
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... percent of the crop is exported , with Valencias over 50 percent and I'm not sure with lemons . It's significant because , with retail consolidation and some of the things that are going on domestically , it's getting more and more ...
... percent of the crop is exported , with Valencias over 50 percent and I'm not sure with lemons . It's significant because , with retail consolidation and some of the things that are going on domestically , it's getting more and more ...
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... percentage re- ductions as we've done in the past and say , " We're going to have a 10 percent reduction in export subsidies " between the Europeans and us because , when they go from 50 to 45 and we go from 10 to nine , we're still ...
... percentage re- ductions as we've done in the past and say , " We're going to have a 10 percent reduction in export subsidies " between the Europeans and us because , when they go from 50 to 45 and we go from 10 to nine , we're still ...
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... percent of the cost . If we are to survive , however , Federal farm policy should pro- mote profitability . In this connection , those of us in the West are very dependent on sound trade policies , since nearly 90 percent of Arizona's ...
... percent of the cost . If we are to survive , however , Federal farm policy should pro- mote profitability . In this connection , those of us in the West are very dependent on sound trade policies , since nearly 90 percent of Arizona's ...
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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.