Excerpt from Agricultural Outlook Forum Proceedings: Presented by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, February 22 and 23, 1995, Arlington, Virginia The Forum was the seventy-first outlook meeting sponsored by usda. While maintaining the traditional focus on the near-term outlook for agriculture and farm commodities, the Forum inaugurated several important changes. A new emphasis was placed on the long-term horizon for the farm sector, which is well reflected in the speeches in this volume. To encourage substantive discussion of agriculture's future, usda provided Forum participants with a report entitled Long-term Agricultural Baseline Projections, 1995 Staff Report waqb-95-1. A copy of the report is included as an attachment to these proceedings. The Forum was designed to encourage a lively discussion about the future, which is evident from the diversity of speakers and the opinions expressed. Speakers at the plenary sessions on the opening afternoon addressed future farm policy directions. Participants at a series of forum sessions on the second day of the meeting discussed the major economic and sectoral issues for the future. Audio tapes of all sessions, and video tapes of the plenary sessions provide a complete record of both presentations and questions and answers. Readers interested in obtaining tapes are referred to the order form at the back of this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.