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Contents

50th Anniversary - logoThe Foreign Agricultural Service, 1953-2003
This issue is devoted to the history of the Foreign Agricultural Service. An introductory letter from Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman summarizes the mission of the Agency and the ways in which FAS has worked for American agriculture over the past 50 years.

The History of the Foreign Agricultural Service: man in field
Helping U.S. Producers Feed, Clothe and House the World
This retrospective recounts the history of FAS, based on research of historical records

group of menA Small Agency With a Big Mission: 50 Years of the Foreign Agricultural Service
A timeline presents the Agency's major milestones.

FAS Attaches: U.S. Agriculture's Eyes and Ears Abroadtwo men
The agricultural attaches of FAS have been on the forefront of a half century of growth in U.S. agricultural exports.

men workingExports Then and Now
Fifty years ago, wheat, cotton and tobacco dominated U.S. agricultural exports, Europe was our largest regional market and our global sales were about $3 billion. But not everything was so different.

 

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  March 2003
  Volume XV, No. 3

  Published by
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
  Foreign Agricultural Service

  Editor
  Priscilla Glynn
  (202) 720-7115

  Writers
   Lynn Goldsbrough
   Linda Habenstreit
   Harold Kanarek
   Eric Van Chantfort 

   

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