num_pages: 304
description: This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class market and state as they have affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy decisions since the New Deal showing how divisions and coalitions within Southern Corn Belt and Wheat Belt agriculture were central to the ebb and flow of price supports and production controls. In addition the book highlights the roles played by the world economy the civil rights movement and existing national policy to provide an invaluable analysis of past and recent trends in supply management policy.
language: English
title: The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy
publisher: Yale University Press