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Developing policy for a resource-conserving agriculture: The Food Security Act of 1985 in perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

Harold D. Guither
Harold D. Guither
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Professor of agricultural policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801.
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The Food Security Act of 1985 in odible land. The sodbuster provision will protect reserve acreage from future exploitation. Bid procedures should provide the most cost effective way to move the largest acreage into the reserve. Buying land to place it into the reserve will not be possible if the restrictions in thelaw are properly enforced.

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American Journal of Alternative Agriculture , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Winter 1986 , pp. 39 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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