Contents: 1. Target Prices, Loan Rates, and Deficiency Payments --- 2. How Acreage Bases and Program Yields are Figured --- 3. How Acreage Reduction Programs Work --- 4. How the Farmer-Owned Grain Reserve Operates --- 5. Farm Program Spending 1970-89 --- 6. Limits on Farm Payments --- 7. How Competitive Are U.S. Farmers? --- 8. How Exports Affect Farm Income --- 9. Export Enhancement Program --- 10. International Food Aid and Development --- 11. How Milk Prices Are Supported --- 12. The U.S. Sugar Program --- 13. Disaster Programs in the Eighties --- 14. How Federal Crop Insurance Operates --- 15. What’s in the Conservation Reserve? --- 16. What is Sustainable Agriculture? --- 17. What USDA is Doing About Food Safety --- 18. Making Farmers Home Administration Loans.