IPolicy

 The issues identified for additional work in the above categories

suggest a need to address a wide variety of public policy issues as well.

Public policies may have different effects on the economic circumstances

of farms of different sizes. Two broad policy research areas identified

are: (1) analysis of the effects of public policy (tax, price, income,

etc.) and other forces on the number and economic situations of small

farms and other farms; and (2) analysis of the effects of alternative

size structures and size-structure policies an economic and social goals

of society. Specific policy research issues include the following:

 (a) Are policies (agricultural and nonagricultural) biased in

 favor of farms of particular sizes and types?

 (b) How well do current Federal and State agricultural, income

 assistance, and other programs meet the needs of small-scale

 farmers and their families?

 (c) hat are the differential effects an farms of varying sizes

 fostered by uniform incremental changes in product prices,

 incomes, and volume of production?

 (d) What would be the effects of alternative policies preferential

 to farms of varying size, such as: (1) graduated levels of

 premiums inversely related to farm size; (2) income supplement

 payments to farms below a specified size income; (3) more

 government assumption of risk through interest supplements

 graduated to farm size: (4) elimination of set-aside require-

 ments associated with any crop production control program for