Only a few million Americans make their livings as farmers now compared with a peak U . S . farm population of 33 million in 1916, he noted.
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Congress amended the act in 1955 to add a formula that uses rural and farm population factors to allocate the annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations among the states.
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While celebrating two decades of largely successful reforms, China is struggling with widespread unemployment due to layoffs by defunct state-run factories and lagging incomes for the vast farm population.
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RED tide, which has killed two-thirds of the marine fish farm population at an estimated loss of $ 120 million, has forced the closure of popular Repulse Bay beach.
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Unresolved land reform issues, a lack of economic incentives to raise surplus crops, and low profit ratios combined to drive increasingly large segments of the farm population into urban areas.
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Duncan also oversaw efforts to adopt new forms of technological delivery, including the purchase of a 1, 000-watt radio station to broadcast educational information to the state s farm population.
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Despite these hardships, the farm population of Missouri increased during the early years of the Depression, and unemployed urban workers sought subsistence farms throughout the state and particularly in the Ozarks.
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The upland farm population peaked around the year 1800, when more productive farmland opened up beyond the Appalachian Mountains in Western New York and the Northwest Territory today's Great Lakes states.
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Shattered by the oil and gas industry bust of the 1980s, it was surviving largely on federal crop support payments to its dwindling farm population, said Jack W . Ivester, the town's mayor.
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Rosset's prescription would require an economic and social re-engineering that would reverse a decades-long decline in the farm population, as technology has increasingly replaced labor _ keeping a lid on food prices in the process.
