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1980s & 1990s Agricultural policy articles -

"Uncle Sam, Super-Sodbuster," Wall Street Journal, September 21, 1984

 

"A USDA Policy for the Birds and Bees," Wall Street Journal, October 4, 1984

"Stop Coddling Farmers," New York Times, January 16, 1985.

"Can Sunkist Wrap Up the Lemon Industry?" Wall Street Journal, January 24, 1985.

"A Subsidy Both Wooly-Headed and Mammoth," Wall Street Journal, April 17, 1985.

"We Shell Out a Peck for This Nutty Program," Wall Street Journal, July 29, 1985.

"The U.S. Simply Needs Fewer Farms," New York Times, October 13, 1985.

"The '85 Farm Bill Will Hurt Exports," New York Times, December 12, 1985.

"The Ag Bill Turns Farmer Against Farmer," Wall Street Journal, March 6, 1986.

"Buying Off the Farmer," New York Times, August 14, 1986.

"USDA's 'Swampbuster' Policy Is All Wet," Wall Street Journal, April 6, 1987.

"Nearly All Aboard the Grainy Train," Wall Street Journal, August 26, 1987.

"Put Agriculture Policy Out to Pasture," Wall Street Journal, February 4, 1988.

"Jubilee Time at Farmers Home Administration," Wall Street Journal, April 26, 1988.

" Two Mercedes for Each Farmer?" New York Times, May 29, 1988.

"Conservation Program's Costly Harvest," Wall Street Journal, May 31, 1988.

"TEA Parity: Export Subsidy at Its Most Absurd," Wall Street Journal, August 12, 1988.

"The Government's Fat Cotton Cushion," Wall Street Journal, December 14, 1988.

"The Sacred Cows That Keep Milk Prices High Up," Wall Street Journal, May 9, 1989.

"Lester, the Sky Hasn't Fallen," Wall Street Journal, June 26, 1989.

"The Great Ice Cream War," Wall Street Journal, September 6, 1989.

"Lock the Barn! The Farm Bill's Coming," Washington Post, January 21, 1990.

"Fascism On the Farm," San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 1990.

"Welfare for Millionaire Farmers," Wall Street Journal, May 22, 1990.

"The U.S. Sugar Program Mugs Grocery Shoppers," Newsday, June 22, 1990.

"Our Disastrously Archaic Farm Policy," New York Times, July 8, 1990

"Farm Subsidies: Milking Us Dry," New York Times, July 20, 1990.

"Apologists for the Farm Lobby," Wall Street Journal, July 24, 1990.

PBS MacNeil-Lehrer Farm Bill Debate Transcript, July 24, 1990.

"How to Think Like a Congressman," Wall Street Journal, August 8, 1990.

"Trade Nuttiness," Wall Street Journal, December 13, 1990.

"Uncle Sam's Peanut Blockade," Washington Times, March 13, 1991.

"Feed the Soviets, Starve the Taxpayer," New York Times, June 15, 1991.


"Bush's Wheat War Leaves Many Casualties," Wall Street Journal, September 8, 1992.

"A New Agricultural Agenda," Wall Street Journal, September 3, 1992.

"Wheat and chaff; Agricultural subsidy programs not cut by President Clinton," New Republic, March 15, 1993.

"Our Wheat War with Canada," Wall Street Journal, October 15, 1993.

"Dole, Gingrich, and the Big Ethanol Boondoggle," Wall Street Journal, November 2, 1995.

"The 1996 Farm Bill Fiasco?" Wall Street Journal, February 6, 1996.

"Farm Loans: Only Bad Risks Need Apply," Wall Street Journal, May 21, 1996
ADD GLICKMAN RESPONSE TO ABOVE

"Farmers Harvest Bumper Crop in Beltway," Wall Street Journal, October 21, 1998.

"Farmers Harvest Bumper Crop in Beltway," Wall Street Journal, October 21, 1998.