Agricultural Policy of the United States: Historic Foundations and 21st Century Issues

This book serves as a foundational reference of U.S. land settlement and early agricultural policy, a comprehensive journey through the evolution of 20^th century agricultural policy, and a detailed guide to the key agricultural policy issues of the early 21^st century. This book integrates the legal, economic and political concepts and ideas that guided U.S. agricultural policy from colonial settlement to the 21^st century, and it applies those concepts to the policy issues agriculture will f...