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than die total assets of the American steal industry. Agriculture’s equipment evaluation totals five times that of the auto indusry and this does not include land and livestock.
We could go on with similar concrete examples of the importance of agriculture to our Nation’s economy. To begin with, although farmers make up only twelve per cent of our population, an additional twenty-four percent of our population is directly employed in the transportation, processing or other wise handling of farm commodities. This means that nation wide more rhar one-third of our population is directly dependent upon
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