第3章美国产业结构.pptx

美国经济;;;Source: World Bank database.;Source: World Bank database.;;美国的农业;美国农业的自然条件;;美国农业的自然条件;美国农业的自然条件;美国农业在国民经济中的地位;美国农业在国民经济中的地位;;;美国农业在国民经济中的地位;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Cheap wheat and bad weather are doing to Nathan Johnson what they couldnt do to three preceding generations of his farming family. They are defeating him. Last year, a disease called scab （斑点病）wiped out（彻底摧毁）half the wheat he planted on the land around his family’s 1887 homestead （农场）near the Canadian border. And now, a glut of （过剩的） foreign wheat is pushing down the grain’s price at the local elevator （谷仓）to an unprofitable $3 a bushel（蒲式耳）. These days, Mr. Johnson is trying to rent out his land and looking for work in the city.;Ignoring the plate of home made cookies on the dining table, the lanky （瘦长的） 33 year old blond listens to the spring rain pelt the kitchen windows and contemplates（周密考虑）moving his wife and two daughters out of the tidy farmhouse where he grew up. We cant afford to lose any more money, and we know farming is only going to get riskier. Mr. Johnson says. Its a heck of a deal.;Across the Northern Plains, the long migration away from agriculture is turning into a stampede（人群的蜂拥）. From Montana to Minnesota, thousands who made their living growing wheat are quitting the bald prairie （草原、牧场）. A blizzard of barnyard auctions is sending chills（寒冷） down the Main Streets of the towns that live off farmers. Were doing a sale every day, says Brad Olstadof Steffes Auctioneers, Inc. in Fargo, N.D. Wheat is a dying crop.;Bad years are nothing new around here. Wheat prices were lower in 1990, when a similar coincidence of bumper（特大的）harvests around the globe swamped（淹没）the market. The drought of 1988 destroyed wheat fields, but none of that was a deadly to farmers as what is happening now: deregulation.;Many of Kittson County’s farmers are suffering their biggest financial losses ever. “Deregulation is turning into a disaster for us,” says Duane A. Lyberg, President of the Northwestern State Bank