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Agriculture Revenue Grows by 9 Percent
Orlando Sentinel—September 14, 2006
… Oranges still managed to retain first place
as the state's single largest crop in dollar value,
at just more than $1 billion, but that was down 11 percent
from 2004, the Economic Research Service reported ...
Home Is Where the Farm Is
USA Today—September 10, 2006
… Such residential farms now account for nearly
half of all farms in the USA, with owners who earn their
income from off-farm work, according to the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Economic Research Service ...
Tilling a Farmland Investment
Wall Street Journal—September 8, 2006
… Allen Baker, an agricultural economist at
the Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service,
warns that even with excitement about ethanol, a fuel
additive made from corn, farmers haven't yet seen 'a lot
of demand show up in their paychecks.' A bushel of corn,
he says, remains at about $2 ...
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