Agricultural-Food Policy Review: Perspectives for the 1980s
By John E. Lee
Agriculture Information Bulletin No. (AFPR4) 153 pp,
April 1981
This collection of articles provides background for discussions on legislation to replace the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. The new legislation will be influenced by the much altered nature of U.S. farming. Almost all easily available cropland, including that once idled by farm programs, is now back in production. Millions of acres of potential cropland remain, but are not as productive or need to be improved (cleared, drained, irrigated, for example). The long period of overproduction, burdensome surpluses, and depressed farm prices now seems to be behind us, although there may still be occasional years of excess production. International food needs now heavily influence the well-being of U.S. agriculture in any given year. The character of U.S. farming has changed as fewer but larger farms now produce most of our total agricultural production
Keywords: 1977 Farm Act, 1981 Farm Act, commodity programs, farm policy, trade policy
In this report ... Chapters are
in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
- Frontmatter (Preface, Contents, and Foreword), 349 kb
- Global Prospects for Agriculture, 2,,207 kb
- The Changing Farm Sector and Future Public Policy: An Economic Perspective, 2,395 kb
- Inflation and Agriculture, 570 kb
- Agriculture's Production Potential, 893 kb
- Transporting Food and Agricultural Products, 987 kb
- International Trade Policy Issues, 988 kb
- Commodity Programs and Policies, 934 kb
- The Setting for New Food and Agricultural Legislation, 1,565 kb
- Food and Agricultural Policy: A Suggested Approach, 1,192 kb
Updated date: April 1, 1981
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