Books Reviewed: Management Accounting for the Sugar Cane Industry by A. E. Fok Kam; Farm and Ranch Financial Records by J. D. Libbin and L. B. Catlett; Japanese Agriculture under Siege by Yujiro Hayami; Soviet Agriculture by Zhores A. Medvedev, and W. W. Norton

Since many countries already pursue a range of environmental objectives for agriculture, in particular the supply of positive externalities or public goods (e.g., wildlife habitat, water supply management, provision of landscape amenities) as well as the reduction of negative externalities, such...

New initiatives are needed in order to move the GATT negotiations forward. A Production Entitlements Guarantees (PEG) program would limit the quantity of production of individual farmers eligible to receive support payments. The payments would be tied to production. But the quantity of...

Acreage functions for wheat, incorporating variables that reflect the value of voluntary acreage diversion programs to producers, are estimated fro 1962-76. The elasticities of response to such programs are generally low in comparison to those for market price, indicating that the reduction of...