Will it require government assistance in the form of price supports and loan guarantees?
We cushioned the impact of the transformation with, for instance, price supports that smoothed out the price decline and avoided wholesale bankruptcies.
Although it has put forward ideas for replacing price supports with direct subsidies, its plan would not much change farmers' behaviour.
The House bill would make huge rollbacks in entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare and farm price supports plus scores of other government programs.
Vulnerable farmers could be protected by direct income support, as they are in America and Europe, rather than with price supports that punish consumers.
That act ended price supports for common crops such as corn and wheat, encouraging farmers to switch instead to more unusual plantings in response to market demand.
In the rare event a borrower went under, his land collateral was as good as gold anyway since legions of land-use restrictions acted as virtual government price supports.
Hugo Cabieses, an adviser to farmers in Peru's coca areas, argues that alternative development can work only if it is linked to government price supports and subsidised credit.
The European Union also uses price supports and export subsidies.
It starts with price supports what the WTO calls domestic support.
The Democrat opposes raising farm income through government price supports, which can establish minimum market prices that end up making it harder to sell U.S. food in world markets.
North Dakota's commissioner of agriculture, Roger Johnson, wants the United States to return to the robust system of price supports it abandoned with the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act.
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But the last round of trade talks, the Uruguay Round, ended in bitterness after the United States tried to force through the abolition of agricultural price supports against the fierce opposition of the European Union.
Recent price action supports that notion.
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On the contrary, it seems to be producing the kind of growth that more than supports its price-earnings multiple of 10.3 times expected 2010 EPS. Sales were up 32% in the quarter ended October 2, 2010 compared to the same three-month period in 2009.
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The Obama administration and the US foreign policy establishment that supports it must pay a price for seeking to undermine the elected government of the US's most important strategic ally in the region.
Who supports the people who pay the price of those extravagant public-union benefits?
Research has shown that 80% of consumers are likely to switch brands that are similar in price and quality when one of those brands supports a cause.
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One differentiator for Flite is that its technology supports both web and mobile ads, Price says.
David Cameron supports minimum alcohol pricing and the government has been consulting on a price of 45p per unit.
Failures re-price their assets (human and physical) and try other experiments but the whole process supports tens of millions of workers who gain experience and incomes.
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