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Date Sept. 26, 1978 Report No. CED-78-178 Title

Changing Character and Structure of American Agriculture: An Overview

DOCU ENT RESOE 07350 -- C2867977] Changing Character and Structure of American Agriculture: An Overview. CED-78-178; -114824. September 26, 1978. 152 pp. Staff study By Henry Eschcege, Director, Community and Economic Development Div. Issue Area: Food: Future Cost and Supply of Resources for Focil Production (1711); Domestic Housing and Community High Development: Economic Development in Rural Are...
Date Sept. 8, 1977 Report No. HRD-77-84 Title

Income Security: Stronger Controls Needed Over the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Association Programs in North Carolina

Date Aug. 23, 1977 Report No. CED-77-121 Title

Management of Agricultural Research: Need and Opportunities for Improvement

JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES far-r l-c.-.llkLC& Management Of Agricultural Research: Need And Opportunities For Improvement Department of Agriculture The extremely complex and highly diversified agricultural research system in the United States has made notable contributions to the Nation’s well-being. However, there is an increasing realization that a...
Date July 5, 1977 Report No. ID-77-6 Title

Agriculture and Food: Restrictions on Using More Fertilizer for Food Crops in Developing Countries

DOCUMENT EESUME 0/2862 - [A19330011 Food Crops in Restrictions on Using More Fertilizer for Jujy 5, 1977. 35 pp. E Developing Countries. ID-77-6; B-159652. 11 appendices (30 pp.) Genpral. Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller Requirements for Issue Area: Facilities and Material Management: Facilities and Equipment, Spare Parts and Supplies (702); Federal Material Management: Buil...
Date May 24, 1977 Report No. CED-77-77 Title

Agriculture and Food: Federal Deficiency Payments Should Not Be Made for Crops Not Grown

REPORT TO THE CONGRESS -,+.I’ ‘7;1+ BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES LM102133 lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll _ Federal Deficiency Payments Should Not Be Made For Crops Not Grown Department of Agriculture The Commodity Credit Corporation is making an estimated $135 million in deficiency payments to rice farmers for the 1976 rice crop. These payments are based on the extent...
Date May 2, 1977 Report No. ID-76-87 Title

Agriculture and Food: Issues Surrounding the Management of Agricultural Exports

DCCUMENT RESUME 01883 A1252234] Issues Surrounding the MNnagement of Agricultural Exports. ID-76-87; B-176943. ay 2, 1977. 2 vols. (v.1, 127 pp.; v.2, 115 Pp.). Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General. Issue Area: Food: Federal Invclvement i U.S. Agricultural Commercial Export Sales (1714). Contact: International Div. Budget Function: Agriculture (350). Organizaticn Concern...
Date April 22, 1977 Report No. CED-77-61 Title

Agriculture and Food: Food and Agriculture Issues for Planning

DOCUMENT RESUME 01884 [A1152135] Food and Agriculture Issues for Planning. CED-77-61. April 22, 1977. 40 pp. + appendices (11 pp.). Staff study by Henry Eschwege, Director, Community and Economic Development Div. Issue Area: Food (1700). Contact: Community and Economic Development Div. Budget Function: Agriculture (350); Income Security: Public Assistance and Other Income Supplements (6C4). Organi...
Date June 14, 1976 Report No. RED-76-101 Title

Agriculture and Food: Opportunities for More Effective Use of Animal Manure

REPORT TO THE CONGRESS BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES Opportunities For More Effective Use Of Animal Manure Environmental Protection Agency Department of Agriculture Energy Research and Development Administration Manure is a valuable economic asset which can be used as fertilizer or from which byproducts can be recovered. The Department of Agriculture should increase its efforts t...
Date May 28, 1976 Report No. ID-76-61 Title

Agriculture and Food: Grain Marketing Systems in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the European Community; Soybean Marketing System in Brazil

Marketing systems and agricultural policies of major grain and soybean producing and exporting countries vary with the political orientation toward the agricultural sector. An assortment of plans are operating in these countries to implement domestic and export marketing systems. This report was made in response to a request by the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, Senate Committee on Fo...
Date May 13, 1976 Report No. ID-76-34 Title

Agriculture and Food: Providing Economic Incentives to Farmers Increases Food Production in Developing Countries

Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllll LM099349 Providing Economic Incentives To Farmers Increases Food Production In Developing Department Agency for of State '. _ 3- International Development tn light cf today’s food crisis, this report discusses why developing nations need a compre henuve strategy which emphasizes economic iilcent+s to farmers as the keystone to improking agricultural growth. It ana...
Date May 4, 1976 Report No. RED-76-91 Title

Alleviating Agricultural Producers' Crop Losses: What Should the Federal Role Be?

REPORT TO THE CONGRESS BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES LM098270 .. llllllllllllllllllllllilllllllilliri .. . Alleviating Agricultural Producers' Crop Losses: What Should The Federal Role Be? Department of Agriculture Two Agriculture programs--an insurance program and a direct-payment program--now offer agriculture producers some protection against loss of income when crops are dama...
Date April 23, 1976 Report No. ID-76-26 Title

Business, Industry, and Consumers: Marketing Order Program--An Assessment of Its Effects on Selected Commodities

BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES’ LM098281 ~~l~llll~l~lllselR~ arketin vsgram -- Departments of Agriculture and State vr ._..- 33- GAO has assessed the costs and effects Federal marketing orders authorized of The orders benefit some producers and handlers by improving farm-level prices and also assist industries to organize, exchange ideas, and evaluate marketing conditions. On th...
Date March 26, 1976 Report No. OSP-76-16 Title

Grain Reserves: A Potential U.S. Food Policy Tool

REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES LMO99406 lllllllillllllllillllllllilll~lll~ Grain Reserves: A Potential U.S. Food Policy Tool GAO, in considering grain reserves as part of U.S. food policy, concludes that: --We cannot be certain that adverse weather -shocks, similar to those in 1972 and 1974, will not occur in the future. Such shocks would tax existing food supplies and the ...
Date Jan. 28, 1976 Report No. 089365 Title

Agriculture and Food: Survey of Federal Food Inspection Activities in Michigan

RESOURCZES DEVSLOPMENY AND ECONOMIC Dl’flSLON -’ I The Honorable F. J. Elulhern, D.V.M. Administ.rator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Department of Agriculture Dear Dr. Eulhern: y / -The General Accounting Office hasp completed a survey of Federal ’ - ,. -. food inspection act!.:5tles Tr, !fi~h;igan. @IX sr;rvey prliAlaLLly T 1 L,,Ecentrated on the inspections performed by the D...
Date Sept. 12, 1975 Report No. RED-76-24 Title

Agriculture and Food: Matters Relating to the Emergency Loan Program Administered by the Department of Agriculture's Farmers Home Administration

P-114873 RELEASED 12 I!#5 [? 4’ The Honorable 3ill Alexander House of Representatives Dear Mr. Alexander: in accordance with your March 26, 1975, request and subsequent discussions with your office, we reviewed several matters relating to the emergency loan program administered by the Department of Agriculture’s Farmers Home Adninistration. The program is authorized by suDtitle C of the Consol...
Date June 20, 1975 Report No. RED-75-375 Title

Natural Resources: Action Needed To Discourage Removal of Trees That Shelter Cropland in the Great Plains

REPORT TO THE ~OlVGRER3 llllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllll LM097000 Action Needed To Discourage Removal Of Trees That Shelter Cropland In ..t ne Great miins Department of Agricutture RED-75-375 B-114833 ,, ! I- To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives This is a report 011 the removal of field windbreaks in the Great Plains, the potential problems if removals...
Date April 11, 1975 Report No. ID-75-40 Title

Agricultural Attache Role Overseas: What He Does and How He Can Be More Effective for the United States

* . . LM097061 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Department of Agricu Iture COMiTROUR GENERAL WAst+IHGToN. OF DC. THE roy¶ U-Zi-:C0 SFPTS!3 B-133160 * ;I To the President of the Speaker of the House of This Department Ser*ate and the Representatives attaches, representatives. the is ocr report on agricultural of Xqriculture’s overseas We made our review pursuant to the Budget and Acc...
Date July 30, 1974 Report No. RED-75-252 Title

Agriculture and Food: Information Concerning Reports of a Possible Wheat Shortage

Department of Agricufture L . RELEASED / In aLcord3ncf with ycur I+=-ch 8, 1974, request and subsequent agrec:!ents blith your office we hdvc reviewed certain Cocmdity Credit Co!*pol'ation (CCC) gra5n sales--sales of ccrn stored in CCC *':s'Q bins in Iowa and Nebraska and b:heat stored in coirnercial warchouses-made during the ?5-nmth period ended April 1974. We also conlparcd rccent.CCC grain sal...
Date May 3, 1974 Report No. B-146770 Title

Financial Management: Interim Report on the Commodity Exchange Authority and on Commodity Futures Trading

B-146770 Department of Agriculture t2soMPTsif3JJ%? Gl%JERAt WASHINGTON. 6F D.C. THE UNITER 20548 STATES B-146 770 @ To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives This is our interim report on the Commodity Exchange Authority, Department of Agriculture, and on commodity futures trading. We made our review pursuant to the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (31 U. S. C. ...
Date July 13, 1972 Report No. B-163484 Title

Government Operations: Examination Into the Fee Assessment Policies and Practices of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture

RESOWRCES APID ECONOMIC DEVELOPWDENT DIVlSlOM B-163484 Dear Mr. Secretary: We have examined into the fee assessment policies and practices of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation / Service (ASCS) 9 Department of Agriculture, concerning its r& processing of price-support loans and storageY!alcility and Y-?% equipment loans authorized under programs of the Commodity Credit Corporation. We...
Date Oct. 1, 1971 Report No. B-173324 Title

Agriculture and Food: Improvements Needed in Leasing Federal Lands for Agricultural Purposes

‘.. ,( ..‘,, ‘t-J ,_ ,: . ,. ‘.. ., . . . . ‘- 1 d ~llllll~llllllilllllllllllllllllllllllll LM095510 B-173324 Corps of Engineers Department (Civil Functions) of the Army COMPTROLLER GENERAL WASHINGTON. OF THE UNITED STATES D.C. 2G548 B- 173324 c To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives This is our report on the improvements needed Federal lands for a...
Date May 18, 1971 Report No. 092969 Title

Agriculture and Food: Activities of the Plant Protection Division of the Agricultural Research Service

CIVIL UlVlSiON MAY ! 8 1979 lllllllllllllllllllllllllllmllllllllll LM092969 Dear Dr. Irving: We have recently completed our review of selected activities of the Plant Protection Division (PPD) of the Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agriculture. Our review--made pursuant to the Budget and Act Accounting Act, 1921 (31 U.S.C. 531, and the Accounting and Auditing of 1950 (31 U.S.C. 67)--w...
Date Jan. 23, 1970 Report No. B-114873 Title

Financial Management: Assessment of Fees for Processing Loan Application Would Help Recover Program Costs of the Farmers Home Administration

COMPTROLLER GENERAL WASHINGTON. OF D.C. THE UNITED 20548 STATE5 B-114873 To the Speaker President of the of the Senate and the House of Representatives In this report we point out that the assessment of fees for processing loan applications by the Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture, would help recover Our review was made pursuant to the Budprogram costs. get and Accounting Act...