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8. C. W. McMillan, “Meat Export Federation to Be Newest Cooperator,” Foreign Agriculture 13 (May 26, 1975), p. 14.
9. Ibid.
10. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Handbook of Agricultural Charts 1980, pp. 63, 69.
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1. General Accounting Office, Report by the Comptroller General of the United States, An Assessment of Parity as A Tool for Formulating and Evaluating Agricultural Policy, CED 81–11, October 10, 1980, p. 18.
2. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Status of the Family Farm, Second Annual Report to Congress, 1979, p. 3.
3. Marvin Duncan, “Farm Real Estate: Who Buys and How,” Monthly Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (June 1977), p. 5.
4. William Lin, George Coffman, and J. B. Penn, U.S. Farm Numbers, Size and Related Structural Dimensions: Projections to the Year 2000, Technical Bulletin No. 1625, Economics and Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1980, p. iii.
5. Lyle Schertz and others, Another Revolution in U.S. Farming?, Agricultural Economic Report No. 441, Economics and Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1979, pp. 300 ff.
6. Diocesan Coalition to Preserve Family Farms, Fourteen-County Land Ownership Study 1980, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, 1980.
7. U.S. Department of Agriculture, A Time to Choose: Summary Report on the Structure of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., January 1981. Table 24, p. 58, indicates that 100 percent of the economies of scale are, on average, reached when sales average $133,000. From Table 5, p. 43, one can calculate that roughly 50 percent of sales are from farms above this size.
8. Leo V. Mayer, Farm Income and Farm Structure in the United States, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Report No. 79–188 S, September 1979, Table 11, p. 31. The lowest per unit costs of production—expenses per dollar of gross farm income—are found on farms with gross sales between $20,000 and $99,999 a year; the highest on farms with sales over $200,000.
9. A Time to Choose, op. cit., p. 56.
10. Another Revolution in U.S. Farming?, op. cit., p. 31.
11. A Time to Choose, op. cit., pp. 46–47, 144–45.
12. Ibid.
13. E. Phillip LeVeen, “Towards a New Food Policy: A Dissenting Perspective,” Public Interest Economics-West, April 1981, Berkeley, California, Table 1.
14. Alfred J. Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman, “Cross-National Studies of Social Service Systems and Family Policy,” Columbia University, School of Social Work, 622 W. 113th St., New York, N.Y. 10025.
15. Warren Weaver, “House Unit Finds Aged Getting Poorer,” New York Times, May 2, 1981.
16. National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity, Critical Choices for the 1980s, 12th Report, August 1980, p. 15.
17. Ibid. pp. 16–17.
18. Census Bureau figures, as quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle of August 21, 1981.
19. Mike Feinsilber, Philadelphia Enquirer, December 24, 1980, quoted by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, Starving in the Shadow of Plenty (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981).
20. Tom Joe, Cheryl Rogers, and Rick Weissbourd, The Poor: Profiles of Families in Poverty, Center for the Study of Welfare Policy, The University of Chicago, Washington office, March 20, 1981, p. iii.
21. Ibid.
22. Robert Greenstein, Director on Food Assistance and Poverty (former administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture), statement before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, April 2, 1981.
23. Interview with Robert Greenstein, May 30, 1981.
24. Nick Kotz, Hunger in America: The Federal Response, The Field Foundation, 100 East 85th Street, New York, N.Y. 10028, p. 13.
25. Interview with Dr. Livingston by research assistant Sandy Fritz, May 1981.
26. President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, Government and the Advancement of Social Justice, Health, Welfare, Education and