Formulation of the 1990 Farm Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 |
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1985 Food Security 1990 farm bill acreage base Alan Bergman ASCS barley budget bushels canola certificates Chairman chemicals committee commodity programs compliance Congress Congressman continue corn cost of production crop insurance Crop Insurance Program crop rotations Dan Glickman deficiency payments disaster domestic drought economic eligible encourage environmental ethanol family farm farm commodities farm income farm operators farm policy farm program Federal Crop Insurance feed grains Food Security Act GATT GLICKMAN going Growers hearing important incentives income protection increase industry issues JOHNSON Kansas land legislation levels livestock loan rates million National Normal Crop North Dakota oilseed opportunity options participation percent prepared statement president price support problems producers program benefits program crops proposals reduced rural America Secretary set-aside Shockman soil South soybeans subcommittee sunflower supply sustainable agriculture swampbuster target prices testimony Thank tion trade USDA wetlands wheat WIFE yields
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Pagina 304 - ... .As farm size and absentee ownership increase, social conditions in the local community deteriorate. We 'have found depressed median family incomes, high levels of poverty, low education levels, social and economic inequality between ethnic groups, etc. associated with land and capital concentration in agriculture Communities that are surrounded by farms that are larger than can be operated by a family unit have a bi-modal income distribution with a few wealthy elites, a majority of poor laborers,...
Pagina 19 - Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, first of all, I would like to thank...
Pagina 68 - ... payment procedures and opposes any action that would further target program benefits. We believe the payment limitations under the commodity loan, acreage reduction and disaster programs should be eliminated. However, we recognize the political difficulties in eliminating payment limits. Therefore, if a limitation must apply to cash deficiency payments. we favor no limit lower than the present $50,000 limitation. Farm Bureau opposes efforts to further target program payments based upon an arbitrary...
Pagina 304 - As farm size and absentee ownership increase, social conditions in the local community deteriorate. We have found depressed median family incomes, high levels of poverty, low education levels, social and economic inequality between ethnic groups, etc.... associated with land and capital concentration in agriculture.... Communities that are surrounded by farms that are larger than can be operated by a family unit have a bi-modal income distribution, with a few wealthy elites, a majority of poor laborers,...
Pagina 58 - ... farm law in modern agricultural history. The original goal of national farm policy was to provide family farmers a parity of income with families in the other sectors of our national economy. That goal has been almost forgotten in the maze of current national farm policies, with the result that family farmers have become residual, rather than primary beneficiaries of federal farm policies.
Pagina 24 - I would be happy to answer any questions of the subcommittee. [The prepared statement of Mr. Mas Canosa follows:] JORGE HAS CANOSA Chatrauut, the Cuban Aaterku Natioul Fonndatlo. Tha: being said, where do we go from ben? The Cuban American National Foundation rfo« support a chajigc in US policy toward Cuba: increasing both the political •ad economic isolation of the Castro regime.
Pagina 40 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the legislature to provide for the conservation of the soil and soil resources of this State, and for the control and prevention of soil erosion...
Pagina 5 - ... refugees while the Department of Labor is collaborating in working out problems of employment for the refugees. Plans for the extension of the whole program beyond July 1 are still under consideration.
Pagina 161 - His equipment costs have increased 75 percent. The solution lies not so much in severe restrictions upon our talent to produce as upon proper channeling of our abundance into more effective and expanded uses. American agricultural abundance can be forged into both a significant instrument of foreign policy and a weapon against domestic hardship and hunger. It is no less our purpose to insure that the farm family that produced this wealth will have a parity in income and equality in opportunity with...
Pagina 320 - Mr. Chairman, we look forward to working with you and members of the committee on this important issue.