Toward a Pro-Middle Farm Policy: What Will It Take to Ensure a Promising Future for Family Farming?
Toward a Pro-Middle Farm Policy: What Will It Take to Ensure a Promising Future for Family Farming?
This chapter, which focuses on the importance of introducing public and private policies in encouraging family farming of small-to-midsize farms in the United States, presents the importance of maintaining a balance between agricultural production and a demand for producers through supply management and storage programs. The identification of a product that is different from those developed by large operators is one of the main tasks for small-size farmers. The chapter discusses the importance of guarding against overproduction of the differentiated products by small-to-midsize farmers, resulting in a decrease in price. It also discusses the importance of developing public policies that would help producers to coordinate the different processes of production and the marketing of the product.
Keywords: public policies, private policies, family farming, supply management, storage programs, differentiated products
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