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...from their land in growing numbers at a time when much of the rest of the U.S. is enjoying prosperity. Some 20,000 farms have been auctioned off since 1981, and the toll is rising. "There will be a bloodbath of farm foreclosures this year," says Washington Economist John Schnittker, a former Under Secretary of Agriculture...
...controversial proposals have already ignited a fierce debate. Says Schnittker: "The Administration has laudable objectives in facing up to where we have to go, but it is incredibly naive to believe that you could jump there in a year or two." Such major groups as the National Farmers Union and the National Farmers Organization are already calling for more, rather than less, federal...
...after year for continuing conservation practices that they were originally encouraged to start as a demonstration for their neighbors. Some REAP drainage projects destroyed wetlands needed by wildlife and subsidized the growing of potatoes in Idaho to the detriment of potato farmers in Maine. Former Agriculture Under Secretary John Schnittker voices the most telling criticism of the program: "REAP subsidizes farmers to do what they would do anyway. Most conservation practices are themselves profitable...
...John A. Schnittker, 40, the Agriculture Department's director of agricultural economics, will take Murphy's old job as Under Secretary. A Kansas farm boy, Schnittker got a Ph.D. in agricultural economics at Iowa State University, taught at Kansas State University, shuttled back and forth between teaching and Government service until 1961, when he joined the department full time. He is, says Freeman, "a firm, strong, tough-minded leader who is respected throughout this department...
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