General Farm Legislation: Hearings Before ..., 86-1, March 18, 19 ... July 10, 19591959 - 393 pages |
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ABERNETHY Agricultural Adjustment Act American farmer areas average basic BASS believe bill bushels cents CHAIRMAN committee Commodity Credit Corporation Congress consumer cooperatives corn cost cotton cottonseed oil crops dairy Department of Agriculture distribution dollars duction economic export fact Farm Bureau farm income farm products farm program farmers favor Federal feed grains fiscal GARVER GATHINGS going Government HAGEN HECHLER HOEVEN incentive increase industry JOHNSON of Colorado labor land LATTA legislation market price McINTIRE ment million acres needy NEWSOM operation PATTON payment in kind payments percent of parity POAGE pounds present present program price fixing price support program problem Public Law 480 question RATZESBERGER recommendations record reduce Secretary BENSON Secretary of Agriculture SHUMAN soil bank statement subsidy supply support price surplus commodities surplus foods talking thing tion tobacco VOORHIS vote West Virginia wheat
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Page 30 - ... (2) encourage the domestic consumption of such commodities or products by diverting them, by the payment of benefits or indemnities or by other means, from the normal channels of trade and commerce or by increasing their utilization through benefits, indemnities, donations or by other means, among persons in low income groups as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture; and (3) reestablish farmers' purchasing power by making payments in connection with the normal production of any agricultural...
Page 380 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 30 - Agriculture only to (1) encourage the exportation of agricultural commodities and products thereof by the payment of benefits in connection with the exportation thereof or of indemnities for losses incurred in connection with such exportation...
Page 51 - In order to prevent the waste of commodities whether in private stocks or acquired through price-support operations by the Commodity Credit Corporation before they can be disposed of in normal domestic channels without impairment of the price-support program...
Page 283 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any further questions? If not, we thank you very much, Mr.
Page 213 - Мех., relative to this upper Colorado transmission matter which I would like to have made a part of the record. Mr. BOLAND. Without objection, it will be inserted at this point in the record. Mr. JENSEN. You can read it. It is in definition of what they call the partnership transmission line program which they recommended. (The letter referred to follows :) PUBLIC SERVICE Co. OF NEW MEXICO, Albuquerque, N.
Page 51 - Federal, or private agency or agencies as may be designated by the proper State or Federal authority and approved by the Secretary, for use in the United States in nonprofit school-lunch programs, in nonprofit summer camps for children, in the assistance of needy persons, and in charitable institutions, including hospitals, to the extent that needy persons are served;.
Page 330 - Upon failure to store or deliver to the Secretary the farm marketing excess within such time as may be determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, the penalty computed as aforesaid shall be paid by the producer.
Page 330 - ... 65 per centum of the parity price per bushel of wheat as of May 1 of the calendar year in which such crop is harvested, multiplied by the normal yield of wheat per acre established for the farm.
Page 134 - Any program which has the result of expanding agricultural output in the absence of a comparable increase in effective market demand is contrary to the interests of farmers. Likewise, programs which induce producers to continue inefficient production render a disservice to agriculture by contributing to the accumulation of surpluses, raising the average cost of production and limiting production per man — all of which tend to limit the opportunity of farm people...