Poverty group presses for voice in farm talks at Washington
The National Association for Community Development demands that poor people be represented on panels at the National Agricultural Outlook Conference in Washington. NACD cites sessions on rural poverty and welfare programs and recalls a past sit-in demanding a hearing from Agriculture Secretary Clifton Hardin.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
National Agricultural Outlook
National Association For Community Development
NACD
Gerald Robinson
Robinson
White House
Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Clifford M. Hardin
Hardin
England's Farmers Turn Militant Over Prices and Policy
John Latham, a 31 year old Essex farmer, symbolizes a rising breed of educated farmers angry over comfort with cheap food policy. He warns militants may block roads with tractors unless prices rise, citing 3 to 5 percent returns and inflation. He faults subsidies and yearly taxation, urging longer term tax averaging to cushion good and bad years.
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Takbeley
England
John Latham
Essex Acres
Latham
Harold Wilson
Home
James Callaghan
West Country
Wales
Britain