Section I: The U.S. vegetable market -The U.S. supply of vegetables; The U.S. demand for vegetables. Section II: Policies and institution - The produce industry in transition: Focus on marketing; The role of public policies in u.s. vegetable production and marketing; Policies and institutions in vegetable marketing in the western hemisphere: the mexican experience. Section III: Trade linkages in the Western Hemisphere - From competition to coordination in vegetable trade: The case of Mexico and California; An empirical analysis of world vegetable trade; A conceptual analysis of vegetable trade; Trade of horticultural products: a caribbean basin perspective. Section IV: Issues in vegetables trade - The Uruguay round of trade negotiations: implications for trade in horticultural products; Vegetable trade and the caribbean basin initiative; Labor and international trade in vegetables.

The decade since the World War has been in many ways the most extraordinary period in American agriculture. For the first time in the Nation's history, the census of 1925 showed a decrease (since 1920) in crop acreage, in farm animals, in number of farms, and in farm population. Nevertheless, agricultural production increased more rapidly from 1922 to 1926, inclusive, than in any period since 1900, and probably since 1890, when the agricultural occupation of the prairies approached completion.