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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... to reduce the cost of fighting pink bollworm , Arizona's most persistent pest ; and we are on the verge of removing aflatoxin from our cottonseed to increase our seed profits . We have done much of this on our own using 1055.
... to reduce the cost of fighting pink bollworm , Arizona's most persistent pest ; and we are on the verge of removing aflatoxin from our cottonseed to increase our seed profits . We have done much of this on our own using 1055.
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... profit margins . Increasing concentration in retail outlets also tends to increase pres- sures on processors to maintain artificially low wholesale prices exacerbates the problem . Packer concentration is not a new problem in American ...
... profit margins . Increasing concentration in retail outlets also tends to increase pres- sures on processors to maintain artificially low wholesale prices exacerbates the problem . Packer concentration is not a new problem in American ...
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... profit margins than many other agricultural products and an increasing demand in the premium wine category . A study by Information Resources shows wine ranked among the five fastest growing supermarket categories . Every wine producing ...
... profit margins than many other agricultural products and an increasing demand in the premium wine category . A study by Information Resources shows wine ranked among the five fastest growing supermarket categories . Every wine producing ...
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... profit farmer owned marketing cooperative . It markets almonds for its members . The almonds are grown exclusively in California and are the largest tree crop in the state . Almonds are the number one food export from California and ...
... profit farmer owned marketing cooperative . It markets almonds for its members . The almonds are grown exclusively in California and are the largest tree crop in the state . Almonds are the number one food export from California and ...
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... profit . We must approach biotechnology with caution . Research should first prove the results will be nutritious food that is biologically mature . We need more focus on soil fertility , worked out with physics , chemistry and biology ...
... profit . We must approach biotechnology with caution . Research should first prove the results will be nutritious food that is biologically mature . We need more focus on soil fertility , worked out with physics , chemistry and biology ...
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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 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.