It deals specifically with the impact of the so-called freedom to farm bill.
Freedom to Fail: How US Farming Policies Have Helped Agribusiness & Pushed Family Famrers Toward Extinction
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2000/00july-aug/lilliston.html
joe
lbo-talk-digest wrote------------------------------
>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:28:05 -0600
>From: Thomas Frank <wedelbe at gsbalum.uchicago.edu>
>Subject: freedom to farm
>
>Hey LBO-ers:
>
>Anyone got a good critique of what's been happening to farmers
>(specifically, midwestern, great plains farmers) over the last twenty
>years or so?
>
>Specifically, anyone have any thoughts on the "Freedom to Farm Act"?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom Frank
>
>