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... motivate the forum's return to a venerable concept in agricultural history and social science: the “iron triangle,” which refers to a mutually supporting arrangement of legislators, bureaucrats, and special interests. This essay introduces and synthesizes contributors’ efforts to interrogate and apply...

...Adam Sheingate Abstract The “iron triangle” concept originated in a set of debates about power and influence in the US political system. Applied to agriculture, the iron triangle described a set of political relationships in which farmers and their representatives enjoyed a privileged position...

...Anne Effland Abstract This essay suggests the “iron triangle” concept may have possibilities as a foundation for reorienting the farm bill. The essay incorporates the broader concept of “power clusters” to more accurately reflect the shaping of farm policy and to better illustrate the premise...

...Sarah T. Phillips Abstract While the “iron triangle” remains a useful metaphor for describing tight and inertial links among policymakers, invested beneficiaries, and administrative officials, the label historically applies only to the classic period of modern US agricultural policy, between...

...Bobby Smith, II Abstract As the nation prepares to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Food Stamp Act of 1964 on August 31, 2024, this essay reframes the “iron triangle” of agricultural policy that generated the Food Stamp Program, known today as the USDA's Supplemental...

... environmental stressors to get worse, indicating that conservation is ancillary to productivist goals. This is also apparent from the repeated funding of production-enhancing practices under the guise of conservation. In parallel terms, environmental concerns were and remain peripheral to the “iron triangle...

...Bill Winders Abstract As part of the “iron triangle,” producer and corporate interests have a significant influence on agricultural policy, but this influence is complicated by changing and competing interests, particularly around corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat. From the 1930s to the 1970s...

.... The classic iron triangle usually started with local groups and ended with congressional pressures on govern? ment agencies. In this case, the classic iron triangle, in effect, was reversed. First, the Corps of Engineers located the site. The proposal was invigorated as Senator Kerr emerged as the dominant...

... with a focus on the production, trafficking, and consumption of opiates. His extensive fieldwork includes stints in the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent. With his background in geography, he uses an interdisciplinary lens to address this multi-faceted issue. As such, the book will be useful to a variety...

...; An Act Appropriating the Receipts From the Sale and Disposal of Public Lands in Certain States and Territories to the Construction of Irrigation Works for the Reclamation of Arid Lands , 57th Cong., 1 st sess. (June 17, 1902 ): 32 Stat. 388; Daniel McCool , Command of the Waters: Iron...

... web site www.usbr.gov , accessed 21 July 2002 3 Daniel McCool , Command of the Waters: Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian Water (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987 ) Donald J. Pisani , "Irrigation, Water Rights, and the Betrayal of Indian...

... mind of E. D. Smith noted the economic potential of peaches and plums that his mother had discovered during his early life.5 Ironically, Smith, who would become one of Canada's most famous farmers, began his schooling with hopes of becoming a civil engineer. He proved an excellent student, achieving...

... that would characterize much of the Green Revolution, Griffing ironically helped make this system possible. He trained a generation of scientists in parts of China and Brazil, and forged connections between these scientists and institutions in the United States. Many of Griffing's students in China went...