摘要：Some most questionable information has been distributed by the press and others regarding Canadian farm incomes over the past few weeks. This has led to misunderstanding of the situation, rather than enlightenment. Moreover, it has spawned some rather narrow, over-simplified, and short-sighted Asolutions@ to the farm income problem. The senior author of this report has been around agriculture for more than thirty years and the farm income problem has cycled several times during that period. Therefore, it is not likely to go away as a result of simple, short-sighted and narrow Asolutions@. Hopefully, this short analysis will at least clarify what=s happening and introduce a clear statement of the trade offs and dilemmas faced by governments and farmers in dealing with the problem.
