rigorous test for technical sufficiency. However, such
conclusions seem to suggest a state of existing
provincialism within the profession which has, in my
opinion, seriously limited development of an
important evolutionary process in American
agriculture. Therefore, the present status and realized
gains from producer bargaining must be viewed in the
context of our own lack of faith which may well have
been the most serious obstacle which the bargaining
movement in agriculture has encountered, and may
continue as its greatest challenge.
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