Abstract

NDERLYING the recent impetus provided by the federal government to agricultural marketing research appears to be the implicit assumption that alterations in the marketing structure-the methods or procedures by which the products of the farm are made available to consumers-can improve farm income. Title II, the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, of Public Law 733 (79th Congress-chapter 966-2d Session), states in Sec. 202: The Congress hereby declares that a sound, efficient and privately operated system for distributing and marketing agricultural products is essential to a prosperous agriculture and is indispensable to the maintenance of full employment and to the welfare, prosperity and health of the nation ... it is the intent of Congress to provide for (1) continuous research to improve the marketing, handling, storage, processing, transportation and distribution of agricultural products. An estimate of what Congress expects from this law may be obtained from an examination of Sec. 203. The Secretary of Agriculture is directed and authorized:

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