AGRICULTURAL POLICY AT THE CROSSROADS—AGAIN

Harold O. Carter

Contemporary Economic Policy, 1986, vol. 4, issue 1, 48-48

Abstract: American agriculture is suffering from severe structural adjustments and from its worst financial depression since landmark price and income policies were legislated more than half a century ago. As much as one‐third of the $220 billion in agricultural debt is now delinquent, nonaccrual, or subject to renegotiation. Land values have fallen precipitously in the past few years. Farm foreclosures are near 1930 Depression levels. The congressional debate over programs that could determine the course of U.S. agriculture for the remainder of the century began in the summer of 1985.

Date: 1986
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