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Article: Showdown at the U.S. Agriculture Department.(Originated from KRT FORUM)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- May 12, 1997
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By Kendell W. Keith
Bridge News
WASHINGTON _ The future competitiveness of U.S. agriculture may well be decided in days or weeks.
At stake is the 10-year fate of more than 25 million acres of U.S. farmland, about 9 percent of our total cultivated acreage for field crops like wheat, corn and soybeans.
By the end of May, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman is to render his decision concerning the number of acres to be idled in the Conservation Reserve Program. The outcome will largely determine whether U.S. agriculture will be positioned to capture the burgeoning growth in world markets.
Last year, the Department ...