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pendable food and fiber supplier. There is no reason why we cannot maintain our role as the world’s number one agricultural supplier.”
‘‘The efficiency and productivity of the American farmer has also allowed us to maintain our domestic and world humanitarian role,” Frick added.
Frick noted that federal costs have been greatly reduced as a result of market-oriented farm programs. ‘‘Because of reduced payments for programs and for storage of government-owned stocks, the farm program share of the USDA budget has been reduced from about 40 percent to an estimated five percent. for the current budget.”
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