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The Latin American debt problem and U.S. agriculture
U.S. agriculture and Latin American countries share some important common ground -a steady stream of agricultural trade between the United States and Latin America. As U.S. agriculture emerges from its debt problem of the 1980s and the problem lingers on in Latin America, both economies stand to benefit from macroeconomic and trade policies that encourage global economic growth.
Conference Paper
Rural America at a crossroad : general discussion
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The farm slump continues
The century's final year was one of frustration for U.S. agriculture - certainly not the way the industry had hoped to close the millennium. Farmers took pride> in their productivity, turning out the fourth bin-busting crop in a row and more red meat and poultry than ever before. But the big production collided with a still sluggish world market, holding down farm commodity prices. Still, farm income held up well above the average for the past decade, due to another big financial assistance package from Washington.> The farm slump will likely continue in the year ahead, although prospects for ...
Journal Article
U.S. agriculture charts a new course for the 1990s
Journal Article
Agriculture in the former Soviet Union: the long road ahead
Journal Article
The drought of 1988
Journal Article
The farm economy turns down