U.S. farm commodity support programs encompass nearly three quarters of a century and three quarters of a trillion taxpayer dollars. One dividend from that effort is to learn lessons. Farm commodity programs have steadfastly maintained a primary objective of supporting the incomes of a...

RECENT events in Central and Eastern Europe are part of a continuing, world-wide political and economic realignment that is important to U.S. food and agricultural industries. The realignment has greater long-run significance for U.S. agriculture than either the new farm bill or the GATT...