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AmberWaves November 2004 > Indicators > Research Areas
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Markets and Trade
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Following the 2002 Farm Act, peanut production declined in the Southwest and Mid-Atlantic, but climbed in the Southeast...where peanut production had traditionally been a relatively big part of the agricultural economy
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Diet and Health

While fairly steady during the 1970s, U.S. percapita caloric sweetener consumption jumped 25 percent between 1982 and 2002...to the point where per capita daily intake was two and a half times the suggested upper limit for a 2,200-calorie diet
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Resources and Environment

 Rural America

As CRP enrollment expanded, there was a decline in diversion of other cropland from production

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In 2002, income maintenance was less than 10 percent of government transfrs to nonmetro residents

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