STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION, AND LOCATION OF PRIMARY AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCTION IN NAFTA COUNTRIES WITH FREER
TRADE
This analysis of the impact of freer trade among NAFTA countries presumes
that: (1) freer trade will especially affect farm structure through commodity
prices and receipts, and (2) domestic commodity programs as well as trade will be
liberalized. Thus the impact on farming structure (size, number, type, and organization
of farms and agribusinesses) will depend, among other things, on the degree
to which local agriculture will be protected from global and regional markets and
on the importance of agricultural trade in each country of NAFTA. According