usda m united states department of agriculture rural business cooperative service rbs research report 153 response elevators to changes in government policies abstract larry stearns agricultural economics north dakota state university david w cobia quintin n burdick center for cooperatives marc warman the reduction storage payments had a great effect on ele vator structure and operations during late 1980s early 1990s other programs such as payment kind pik grain sales commodity credit corporation ccc catalog auction conservation reserve pprogram crp also affected terms excess capac ity factors 1988 1992 managers 71 7 were surveyed about their this discusses program between struc ture keywords farmer marketing policy june 1997 executivesummary highlights country saw
