a) According to U.S. Farm Policy: The First 200 Years, what were the four distinct periods for agriculture policy?

Price support, income support, trade adjustment expansion, free market economy

Land distribution, education and research, information and marketing assistance and farm income support

Land distribution, education and research, information and marketing assistance, conservation support

Homestead Act, education and research, Dust Bowl and Great Depression

b) From the 1900s through the 1920s U.S. Agriculture policy focused primarily on which of the following?

Helping those from manufacturing jobs transition to agriculture

Increasing price support levels to levels commensurate with those in the late 1800s.

Educating farmers, supporting research and occasionally regulating agribusinesses such as grain elevators

All are correct

c) At the beginning of the 20^th Century Agriculture in the U.S. was guided primarily by the market economy?

True

False

d) When did the U.S. begin supply management?

1930s

1920s

1940s

e) According to U.S. Farm Policy: The First 200 Years what was the first distinct period in farm policy?

Research and Development

Acreage Allotments

Land Distribution

Marketing Regulations

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