The Farm Bloc: under pressure of surpluses, bumper crops, informal coalition struggles with shaping of vital policies

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    1953-05-15
    Published:
    USA: Congressional Quarterly News Features, Washington, D.C.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 64 Document Number: D10738
    Journal Title:
    Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report
    Journal Title Details:
    11(20) : 619-627
    Subject Term:
    agricultural policy, change, government, government policies, government programs, interest groups, organizations, politics, lobbying, Grange, farm policies, Farm Bureau, policy making, USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), policy makers, Farmers Union, agricultural organizations, and political change
    Notes:
    Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Claude W. Gifford Collection., "Its three major elements still hold the farmer's fate through their guidance of Congress; but faces, ideas change, solidarity is gone."

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