Structural change in US agriculture

Policy Reform and Adjustment in the Agricultural Sectors of Developed Countries

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 23-41

  MacDonald, James M ^a   Hoppe, Robert ^a   Banker, David ^a  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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