This document summarizes what has been learned from more than 60 years of experience dealing with more than 130 agricultural and food policy tools. Contemporary federal policy regarding agriculture has its origin in the late 1920s. Since that time policy has evolved continuously as problems, conditions, goals and/or philosophies toward government involvement in agriculture have changed.
Joe Outlaw, James Richardson, Parr Rosson, Danny Klinefelter, David Anderson, Ron Knutson