Subiammittee on In based AMEND TOBACCO MARKETING QUOTA PROVISIONS 96-865 COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H.R. 6485 and H.R. 6799 APRIL 12, 1973 Serial 93-M Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1973 Page Cozart, James Edward, tobacco warehouseman, Abingdon, Va_ Frick, Kenneth E., Administrator, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture....... Fuqua, Hon. Don, a Representative in Congress from the State of Gess, William, attorney, Lexington, Ky---- Hance, Hon. Y. D., secretary of agriculture, State of Maryland__ Ison, Louis, president, Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Natcher, Hon. William H., a Representative in Congress from the Perkins, Hon. Carl D., a Representative in Congress from the State Snodgrass, Frank B., vice president and managing director, Burley 8 Stiles, George, president, Kentucky National Farmers Organization__ Wells, Phil B., president, Burley Auction Warehouse Association. Williams, Joseph R., president, Tobacco Associates, Inc. Woods, Robert D., president, Burley Farmers Advisory Council__ Peterson, E. L. Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, letter of February 23, 1973 to Hon. Carl Additional information submitted to the subcommittee: Growers urged to proceed with caution in cultivating Maryland leaf__ Classification of leaf tobacco covering classes, types, and groups of AMEND TOBACCO MARKETING QUOTA PROVISIONS THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1973 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TOBACCO SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 2:10 p.m., in room 1301, Longworth House Office Building, the Honorable Frank A. Stubblefield (chairman) presiding. Present: Representatives Stubblefield, Jones of North Carolina, Mathis, Rose, Wampler, and Mizell. Also present: Representative Ed Jones of Tennessee. Fowler C. West, staff director; Hyde H. Murray, associate counsel; John Rainbolt, assistant counsel; Steve Allen, staff consultant; and Martha Hannah, subcommittee clerk. Mr. STUBBLEFIELD. The committee will please come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to consider H.R. 6485, which relates to the impact of nonquota tobacco in traditional areas producing burley, Flue-cured, and dark tobacco. For the benefit of new members-we have two more members coming-I would just like briefly to make a historical statement. Public Law 92-10 was approved on April 14, 1971, to provide for a more effective production adjustment program for burley tobacco by establishing farm marketing quotas in pounds rather than in acres. This law was necessitated by the fact that the yield per acre for burley tobacco had increased from an average of 1,316 pounds in the 1949-53 period, to 2,590 pounds per acre in 1970. This law provided for a referendum of burley tobacco growers to determine whether they favored or opposed the establishment of marketing quotas on a poundage basis. It is necessary for two-thirds or more of the farmers voting in the referendum to approve same, if marketing quotas and price supports are to be in effect. Burley farmers voting in a referendum held May 4, 1971, favored the establishment of marketing quotas on a poundage basis by 96.6 percent. Therefore, poundage quotas have been in effect for 1971, 1972, and 1973 crops of burley tobacco. It was felt that with the enactment of the aforementioned statute that all production and marketing problems for burley tobacco had been eliminated. However, in 1972 there was produced in the burley area approximately 800,000 pounds of tobacco allegedly produced from Maryland-type tobacco seed. Maryland tobacco is not grown under production controls and the production of this nonquota tobacco in the traditional burley area is jeopardizing the burley program. The burley grower leadership feel that farmers may produce (1) |