Missouri farm leaders’ opinions on agricultural issues and the political process
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Agricultural policy must adapt to an existing political and social system. Additionally it must be concerned with the process of evolution ary change. Three mutually dependent groups (farmers, policymakers, and the voting public) need to keep abreast of the agricultural situation. This study reports attitudes of leading Missouri farmers toward agricultural policy issues and examines selected economic and non-economic factors that give form to them. Among selected findings were a majority preference for voluntary farm programs; some unease about the adequacy of farmers' markets; a preference, in farmers' cooperatives, that farmer-members' interests get a degree of priority; and a 70 percent vote that farmers' organizations now serve members' interests acceptably well. But few of the farmers (scarcely more than a tenth) are satisfied with farmers' influence in the political process.
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