The Farm Policy Game: Play by Play

by Lauren Soth

FROM Lauren Soth, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and distinguished agricultural economist, is an influential writer on agriculture and food issues. The Farm Policy Game, Play by Play, is a collection of his most significant newspaper columns and speeches over the past fifteen years. Soth's columns have run the gamut of both agricultural and public policy issues, both foreign and domestic. He writes in a time of new technology, new crops, new ideas, and new problems. All the pieces included in this collection have current significance, illustrating the striking similarity of agricultural issues over this fifteen-year span. Topics of the columns written in the mid-1970's were still being debated in the 1988 political campaigns. . . . The Farm Policy Game will appeal to the broad general audience concerned with these issues, as well as to professionals in agricultural economics, rural sociology, and agricultural history. These writings are pertinent and interesting for all readers of today's news.

277 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1989