File concerning the policy process in American agriculture, notes intended for book on US agricultural policy by Michael Tracy, includes extracts, analyses, commentaries and reviews from various publications and from agricultural economic sysmposiums, includes:Material on farm problems - acreage controls, rural poverty, supplies, prices in particular controls and the multiple pricing of American wheat, incomes, measures towards agriculture such as the Agricultural Act 1948 (Brannan Plan), policies and ideas Democratic V's Republican administrations, farm pressure groups Farm Bureau, Farmer's Union, commodity groups, the rural vote, extent of rural representation in Congress, recent agricultural legislation, House and Senate Agricultural Committees and their objectives, public attitudes to agriculture, economic structure and policy for agriculture under economic development. File also includes a paper by Michael Tracy outlining US agricultural policy (1961) dealing with domestic policy and international implications
Internal OECD documents, entitled, "Current Problems of Agricultural Policy, 1961" and "Note on US Agricultural Policy", 1962

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