A Strategy for Returning Agriculture and Rural America to Long-Term Full Employment Using Biomass Refineries

Production agriculture in Rural America has two major problems. The first is that it has long-term excess productive capacity at acceptable prices. The second, accentuated by the recent change in Federal farm program policy, is widely fluctuating prices with their resulting “boom and bust” cycles. These severely damage the economies of communities in which production agriculture provides the majority of the economic stimulus. These two problems are closely linked and the foci of this conceptual analysis.