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March 01, 2010

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Markets and Trade

Certifiction and compliance cited as most difficult aspects of organic dairy production
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Diet and Health

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program accounted for 68 percent of USDA's food and nutrition assistance in fiscal 2009
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Farms, Firms, and Households

Medium-sized farms rent or lease more land than the largest or smallest farms, 2008
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Total returns to U.S. farm business assets were forecastto decline in 2009
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Unemployment highest among the least educated, fourth quarter 2009
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