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ERS Study on
Corporate Farming
Secretary of Agriculture OrVille L. Freeman today expressed “deep concern” over Increased movement by large, diversified non-farm corpora tlon Into agriculture and ordered USDA to step up its economic studies of the subject. “Earlier USDA special studies of vertical integration in he broiler industry have shown some of the extent of movement by non-farm interests intoagriculture. Continuing studies by the Economic Research Service of the dynamics of farm size show the dimensions of this problem,” the Secretary said. "We also know that off-farm corporations have been acquiring large tracts of cropland in the Midwest and else**" 1
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