Article located in ACDC collection of NAAJ/NFEA Newsletter issues., Report of a survey by Farm Futures magazine. Fifty-nine percent of responding farm readers said they feel ethical standards of producers have gotten worse during the past 10 years.
9 pages., Author reports on the benefit-cost ratio (BCR) of agricultural trade promotion, observing an average of $10 return from $1 invested and noting that funds allocated to such promotion have been relatively small. ... "Given the high BCRs to export promotion...as reported by several studies, increased funding to those underfunded programs could produce rather dramatic results..."