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In this chapter you will learn:
  • Why agricultural prices and farm income are unstable.
  • Why huge numbers of labor resources have exited U.S. agriculture during the past several decades.
  • The rationale for farm subsidies and the economics and politics of price supports (price floors).
  • Major criticisms of the price-support system in agriculture.
  • The main elements of existing Federal farm policy.







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