Reviews market forecast of livestock exports, examining domestic and foreign beef production, trade policies, and consumer preferences.

Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs discusses the need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement a new method for estimating the amount of ammonia, nitrous oxide, methane, and other pollutants emitted from livestock and poultry farms, and for determining how these emissions are dispersed in the atmosphere. The committee calls for the EPA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish a joint council to coordinate and oversee short - and long-term research to estimate emissions from animal feeding operations accurately and to develop mitigation strategies. Their recommendation was for the joint council to focus its efforts first on those pollutants that pose the greatest risk to the environment and public health.

Considers prospects and problems for small businesses in long term export market for timber, fish and agricultural products from the Pacific Northwest. Hearing was held in Portland, Oreg., pt. 1; Hearing, held in Mobile, Ala., focuses on agricultural and industrial exporting activities in Alabama and Mississippi, pt. 2; Hearing, held in Milwaukee, Wis., focuses on role of small enterprises in Wisconsin exporting activities, pt. 3; Examines the potentials and problems of developing exports of small business and regional industries over the next decade. Hearings were held in Miami, Fla., pt. 4; Reviews U.S. international trade posture and balance of payments deficit, to identify means of expanding northeast regional exports and increase involvement of small business. Focuses on implementation of GATT Kennedy Round tariffs revisions, improvement of port and harbor facilities, increased loan authority for the Export-Import Bank, and overseas markets for U.S. goods. May 3 hearing was held in Newark, N.J.; and May 6 hearing was held in New York City, pt. 5; Continuation of hearings on the problems of expanding exports of small businesses and regional industries over a ten year period, pt. 6

To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. When Japan, a nation of just 125 million, began to import food, world grain markets rejoiced. But when China, a market ten times bigger, starts importing, there may not be enough grain in the world to meet that need - and food prices will rise steeply for everyone. Analysts foresaw that the recent four-year doubling of income for China's 1.2 billion consumers would increase food demand, especially for meat, eggs, and beer. But these analysts assumed that food production would rise to meet those demands. Brown shows that cropland losses are heavy in countries that are densely populated before industrialization, and that these countries quickly become net grain importers. We can see that process now in newspaper accounts from China as the government struggles with this problem.