Vol. 16 No. 1 - Spring 1988

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Unsettling Images: The Future of American Agriculture

• Plow Up A Storm: The UFO Story

  Farmers in the Southeast are organizing to save their land, change federal and state policy, and build alliances across race and region. By Eric Bates.

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• Unsettling America's Family Farmer

  Farmers who sharecrop for High Finance cannot in good conscience promise their children a future in agriculture. By Cary Fowler.

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• Policy Statements on Agriculture: Family Farms, Farm Labor, and Biotechnology

  What Congress and other lawmakers should do for the future of agriculture. By the Rural Advancement Fund staff.

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• "Manifest Destiny": The Exhibition

  Documentary photographers brought us the faces of the Great Depression; a new generation has recorded the complexity of today's Farm Crisis. By Ken Bloom.

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• Unsettling Images: A Portrait of Rural America

  by the contributing photographers to "Manifest Destiny".

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• The Citizen's Forum on Agricultural Issues

  Excerpts from a hearing held in commemoration of the Rural Advancement Fund's 50th anniversary

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