Excerpt from Consumer and Agricultural Protection Act of 1978: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session, S. 2626; May 22, 23, and 24, 1978 As a personal statement: I am a landowner; amounts of land, much of which I began to buy in 1967 and 1968. Land owners are not adversely affected b these current conditions because our costs have not increased. It is t people that farm that are bear ing the brunt of what is happening in American agriculture. Land Owners will survive, the processors will survive, the shippers will sur vive, the exporters will survive, but many, man farmers - those that earn their li from producing crops, or catt e, or meat of various kinds - are in di culty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.