Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and ChangeThomas R. Ford |
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... policy meant agricultural or farm policy . Farm policy was designed to help farms and farmers , and most rural people lived on farms . The situation is changing . Nonfarm people are becoming more important as the intended beneficiaries of ...
... policy meant agricultural or farm policy . Farm policy was designed to help farms and farmers , and most rural people lived on farms . The situation is changing . Nonfarm people are becoming more important as the intended beneficiaries of ...
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... farm organizations . Although different interests were represented in the ... farm prices in the market . As long as consumers were not ... policy ends , which then increases the difficulty Public Policy and Rural Social Change 203.
... farm organizations . Although different interests were represented in the ... farm prices in the market . As long as consumers were not ... policy ends , which then increases the difficulty Public Policy and Rural Social Change 203.
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... policy compromise . An inevitable part of this new policy environment is the questioning of the rationale for a U.S. Department of Agriculture as constituted in the past . Some feel that the Department has been a spokesman for large farmers ...
... policy compromise . An inevitable part of this new policy environment is the questioning of the rationale for a U.S. Department of Agriculture as constituted in the past . Some feel that the Department has been a spokesman for large farmers ...
Contents
Quality and Conflicts in Land | 19 |
People on the Land | 37 |
The Changing Character of the Nonmetropolitan | 55 |
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