.S. agriculture's predicament in 1994. The nation's crop producers produced record harvests and livestock producers sent record … amounts of meat to the nation's meat counters. The abundance of food, however, brought the industry back to its traditional …

industry. Consolidation is certainly not new in agriculture---it has been underway for most of the 20th century. What is new is …The year just past was one of turbulent markets and unmet expectations for most of U.S. agriculture. Public and private …, changes in U.S. agriculture. Taken together, these changes amounted to a new wave of consolidation that spread throughout the …

by another year of losses in the livestock industry.> Drabenstott examines the developments in agriculture in 1995 and …U.S. agriculture appears to be passing into a new era marked by both greater risk and potentially greater rewards … opportunities. That switch in policy will occur just as the industry faces the brightest prospects in world commodity markets in …

in the world food market. Selling successfully in world markets is vital to U.S. agriculture because it produces far more … likely to shape the world market and conclude that agricultural policy must be overhauled if U.S. agriculture is to excel in …

.S. agricultural exports also suggested that the market trend for the industry is decidedly up.> For most of U.S. agriculture the year …U.S. agriculture formally entered a new era in April 1996 when a new seven-year farm bill was signed into law … overturning 60 years of commodity programs. The new bill set agriculture on a new course where markets, not government programs …