Economics of American AgricultureThe production of farm products; Marketing farm products; Toward an understanding of farm prices; Farmers in the national and world economies; Human; material and financial resources of agriculture; Price-income policy problems. |
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Contents
The Farm Marketing SystemWhat Is | 93 |
The Changing Structure of Farm Markets | 115 |
Marketing Services and Costs | 130 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Economics of American Agriculture |
| Authors | Walter William Wilcox, Willard Wesley Cochrane, Robert W. Herdt |
| Edition | 3, illustrated |
| Publisher | Prentice-Hall, 1974 |
| ISBN | 0132296667, 9780132296663 |
| Length | 504 pages |
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