While the White Paper for the Agricultural in the Middle Project contains narrative and graphs that reflect 1997 data—the most current available when the paper was produced—Kirschenmann said 2002 numbers are now available from the USDA and that the paper will be updated within the next 3 to 4 weeks. “It’s simply more of the same,” he said. “The middle is disappearing, there’s just no question about it.”

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