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Acknowledgments
I am indebted to countless people for their help with this project. First are the many interview participants, informants, collaborators, cheerleaders, advisers, and colleagues who gave of their time, energy, and encouragement and without whom my understanding of farm policy would have remained two-dimensional.
Second, I would like to thank Rachel Schurman, Dennis Becker, Paul Porter, Kristen Nelson, and the late G. Edward Schuh, who sustained, always, a willingness to question and probe; Vickie Bierman, Brooke Haworth, Meagan Keefe, Lisa Kissing, and Kaitlin Steiger-Meister, who spent hours transcribing interviews; and Gretchen Boger, Kate Clancy, Mike Cochran, Edith Lehrer, Amy Damon, Meagan Keefe, Zhao Ma, and Anthony Snider for their comments on previous drafts.
Enormous thanks go, of course, to my family and friends—too many to name individually but each appreciated for his or her support and patience. And finally, grateful acknowledgments go to the editors, staff, and anonymous reviewers of Cambria Press for suggesting this work be published and for making the process smooth and easy.