The red bar indicates the actual man-years in the commodity offices at the present time. This shaded part represents the additional manyears that would be required were the people still performing on the same basis as they were in 1952. Instead of coming here with less than 4,000 employees we would now be required, with the workload that we have, to employ approximately 10,200 employees if they were performing at the same level they performed in 1952.

Mr. WHITTEN. You are talking about people who handle the Commodity Credit Corporation activities as well as many other things assigned to them. They all come under this heading.

Mr. GODFREY. That is right. Commodity offices handle more than merely the handling of Commodity Credit Corporation functions. Mr. WHITTEN. That is part of their function? Mr. GODFREY. It is their major function.

STATE OFFICES

Full-time employment in State offices as of April 30, 1962, was 1,782, lower than any April month-end since 1955. The peak was 2,150, reached in May 1957. Here is a chart on State offices which shows that we have managed to keep State office employment down in spite of major program changes.

(The chart used by Mr. Godfrey follows:)

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Mr. GODFREY. To give you a little more detail, the number of man-years worked in State offices in the fiscal year 1961 was 618 less than in 1950, despite the major increases in workload during the interim.

This chart shows total man-years rather than total employment. You will notice that the other chart shows that total employment is less than it was last year.

OTHER FIELD OFFICES

April employment in other field offices was 1,616. This included. 1,686 milk marketing order personnel, who are not paid from Federal funds. This group of personnel was transferred to ASCS in the reorganization last spring. Adjusted for reorganization transfers, employment was 530, which is the smallest since May 1960, when 524 were employed. The bulk of these employees are field staff of the Internal Audit and Investigation Divisions.

COUNTY OFFICES

Here is a chart on county office man-years beginning in 1950.

Mr. GODFREY. Improvements in efficiency in the county offices during the 11-year period, 1950-61, have enabled them to handle about 81 percent of the major workload added by new programs initiated during the period. Över these 11 years the total number of man-years worked in county offices (including committeemen) increased from 24,912 to 25,848, or a net increase of 936 man-years. However, on programs which were operative in both 1950 and 1961, the number of man-years worked decreased by 6,051 (from 24,503 in 1950 to 18,452 in 1961) despite a large increase in price-support workload. New programs added during this period (conservation reserve, Wool Act, 1961 feed grain, and Great Plains) required 7,396 man-years in 1961, and this was partially offset by 410 man-years worked on crop insurance in 1950 but not in 1961.

If you recall, in 1950, ASCS did some work on crop insurance. There was a reduction there of 410 man-years, since the Crop Insurance Corporation has for some years handled its own work.

The estimate for 1962 including the employment required for the 1961 and 1962 feed grain programs and the 1962 wheat program is less than the actual for 1958, when soil bank work was at its peak. The total number of man-years worked by all county personnel (county and community committeemen and all others) was 25,858 in the fiscal year 1961, and is estimated to be 31,030 for the fiscal year 1962. The estimate for 1962 is less than the total for 1958, which was 31,059.

I might point out here that the emergency feed grain program and the emergency wheat stabilization program are affecting many more people than the acreage reserve and the conservation reserve programs. Mr. ANDERSEN. How many acres in the conservation reserve program?

Mr. GODFREY. About 26 million.

COSTS UNDER PROPOSED FARM BILL

Mr. MICHEL. Do your charts, exclude man-years relating to a possible 1963 feed grain and wheat stabilization program?

Mr. GODFREY. That is right.

Mr. MICHEL. Is that the bill we were just considering last week? Mr. GODFREY. That is right.

Mr. MICHEL. Were you ever asked at any time to project any figures as to how many additional people it might take to implement that program?

Mr. GODFREY. We were asked to make some projections as to additional administrative funds and personnel required if the program was passed, as presented to the House.

Mr. MICHEL. Would you care to tell us how many additional people you came up with in those projected figures?

Mr. BEACH. We estimated on the feed grain program for the fiscal year 1963, assuming the passage of H.R. 11222, that it would take 8,556.7 man-years and 2,997.2 on the wheat stabilization program. It would take a total of 11,553.9 man-years of National, State, and county office time and that is compared with 8,987.6 which we are using in the fiscal year 1962.

In other words, the increase would be 2,566.3 man-years which is the difference between those two figures.