The report is submitted with the hope that it will stimulate dis-

cussion by the Joint Council and from this discussion a consensus

within the agriculture science community will emerge, not on the specific

details of a small farm program but on the rationale for, the relative

size and scope of, and the mechanism for developing the details of such

a program.

 Copies of this report are available from; Executive Secretary,

Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences, USDA, Room 351-A,

Administration Bldg., 14th & Independence SW, Washington, D.C. 20250.