Both price-support and production-control programs have been used. But the basic long-run farm problem isn't only a price problem, a production-control problem or a size-of-stocks problem. It involves people, too.

Care of smooth-surface floors may never be as easy as they show it in the TV commercials. But some women work harder at keeping up their floors than they need to. Here are some "rules of thumb" for easier floor care.

A new law makees a retirement plan "fringe benefit" available to farmers and other self-employed persons. But it calls for careful thinking and advance planning even though final IRS tax regulations haven't yet been announced.

One of the best ways to prevent the spread of diseases among young calves is to raise them separately until after weaning. Some Iowa dairymen have cut calf losses greatly by using simple but well-planned individual stalls.