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Looking Forward: Research Issues Facing Agriculture and Rural America

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  • Forward Look Committee, Economic Research Service
  • Editor: Mighell, Ronald L.

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Papers included: Anticipating the Future (Leroy Quance and Gary C. Taylor) --- Domestic Food and Fiber Needs and Demands (Alden C. Manchester and Charles R. Handy) --- Food Prices, Consumer Beliefs and Values (Robert V. Enochian) --- Production Potentials in U. S. Agriculture (Melvin D. Skold and J. B. Penn) --- A Research Program to Answer Energy Questions in Agriculture (John W. Green) --- Emerging Issues in Agricultural Trade and Development (Charles E. Hanrahan and Richard M. Kennedy) --- Selling to Centrally Planned Countries – Research on Emerging Policy Issues (David M. Schoonover) --- Grain Reserves –Implications for Research and Forecasting in ERS (W. Scott Steele) --- The Role of ERS in Foreign Trade and Development (Joseph W. Willett) --- Structure, Control, and Use of Agricultural Resources (Robert F. Boxley) --- Structure, Control, and Use of Agricultural Resources (Donn A. Reimund and J. Rod Martin) --- New Directions for Quality of Life Research (Richard G. Stuby) --- Quality of Life Research in Nonmetropolitan America: A Crystal Ball View (Gerald A. Doeksen, Ronald Bird and Bernal L. Green) --- Passenger Transportation in Nonmetropolitan America (David L. Brown) --- The Rural Health Shortage Area Problem: A Research Plan for a Major Issue (Jeannette Fitzwilliams) --- Economic Opportunity in Rural America (Thomas F. Stinson and Neil R. Cook) --- Rural Development–A Zero-Sum Game? (Alan R. Bird) --- Research Needs for Nonpoint Pollution (Clayton W. Ogg) --- ERS in Search for Its Clientele (James R. Sayre and John G. Stovall) --- Should We Stand Out or Blend In? (Ben Blankenship) --- ERS Roles, Functions, and Services (William M. Crosswhite) --- ERS Roles, Functions, and Services (Charles V. Moore) --- Alternative Futures for Consumer Sovereignty: Implications for ERS and USDA (W. B. Back) --- ERS Accountability in the Face of Emerging Food Resource Issues (Paul Fuglestad) --- The Mix of Research and Alternative Activities in ERS and the Universities: Implications for the Future (Joseph M. Roop).

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  • Forward Look Committee, Economic Research Service & Editor: Mighell, Ronald L., 1977. "Looking Forward: Research Issues Facing Agriculture and Rural America," Miscellaneous Publications 349188, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersmp:349188
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.349188
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