Effect of U.S. Farm Policy on Rural America

Mindy F. Petrulis

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1985, vol. 01, issue 3

Abstract: Most analyses of farm policy focus on totals: total cost to the Treasury, total number of farmers affected, total volume of farm production, total number of farm jobs. This article adds another dimension to the debate, often missing from such analyses: it identifies 702 counties heavily dependent on income from farming and likely to be hardest hit by policy changes. Even within that group of counties, those with the higher concentrations of farm-related employment are more affected than others by policy changes.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310294

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