US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
Peoples & Things
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The Impact of the Farm Bill on the Food System
Around 1973 the farm bill that's reissued every few years under Earl Butts, who is the head of the USDA at the time. He really does not like new deal policies that had been in place since the 1930s to control their worry about overproduction earlier. And so rather than having these price controls to help farmers, his thought is let's lift all the controls and if we have extra will export it abroad,.
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