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The 1980s: a turning point for U.S. agricultural exports?
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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.
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U.S. agriculture : another solid year in 1998?
U.S. agriculture had a very good year in 1997, with profits widely shared among the nation's farmers. While few producers could boast of bell-ringer profits, as they did in 1996, nearly all could claim a good year. The year was especially welcome to the nation's cattle producers, who had struggled through an extended period of losses. The cattle industry rebounded much faster and further than anyone expected. While Mother Nature did bring major flooding to the Northern Plains states in late spring, most parts of the nation had good growing conditions in 1997. The result was an abundant ...
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The effect of financial futures bank performance
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The new power of regions : a policy focus for rural America
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Exploring policy options for a new rural America : a conference summary
The United States needs a new rural policy. That was the conclusion of ten policy experts and 250 rural leaders from throughout the nation who met in Kansas City for the Center for the Study of Rural America?s second annual conference on rural policy matters, Exploring Policy Options for a New Rural America. The conference examined a menu of promising policy options and also considered ways to combine these options into a more coherent overall approach to the challenges facing rural communities.> Drabenstott and Sheaff highlight the issues raised at the conference. Participants agreed that ...
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Main streets of tomorrow : growing and financing rural entrepreneurs : a conference summary
Entrepreneurship is the new focal point for rural development. This was the consensus of 200 rural policy officials and experts who gathered in Kansas City on April 28-29 for the fourth annual rural policy conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City?s Center for the Study of Rural America. For much of the past half century, rural development has been driven by twin incentives aimed at business recruitment and retention. This strategy is no longer working so well, however, for one simple reason?globalization. In a global marketplace, lower cost business sites abound, making ...