tion for a sales price which would be the sales price which would hold for the whole year on all grades and all crops to this Farmers Program Division. It came up through the Deputy here, and, working with the policy and program appraisal group, they prepared a docket which went to me to be submitted to the CCC Board. The CCC Board is not shown here, but it is on up here. The CCC Board then considered the docket and approved the docket. Then the Farmers Program Division passed the information on down to the co-op and said your prices as recommended are approved. Mr. ADDABBO. They handle the actual sales? Mr. GODFREY. They handle the actual sales. Mr. ADDABBO. Thank you. Mr. GODFREY. This is entirely different for tobacco and peanuts. It would be different for peanuts than it would be for any other commodity. Mr. WHITTEN. As a matter of fact, since that has been developed, and I think it is a most appropriate question, do you, under present conditions, take title to tobacco or do you under present policy leave that as it was? Mr. GODFREY. It stays under loan. Mr. WHITTEN. Which in turn means under present policy it stays under loan, with you in control. In effect your cooperative amounts to being your agent, because you never change that? Mr. GODFREY. That is right. Mr. WHITTEN. They were in effect acting on the part of the Corporation. Mr. GODFREY. That is right. Mr. WHITTEN. They were holding title as your agent, which in effect means title in you. Mr. GODFREY. Years ago, in the early 1940's-Congressman Natcher may recall-we did take title to some tobacco and sold it. This was in the early 1940's. Since 1946 we have not taken title to any tobacco. EMPLOYMENT I have just two other charts. (The charts follow :) Mr. GODFREY. I wouldn't take the time except I know you are vitally interested in this. This is the manyears of employment, both at Federal and county levels. The black dot shows the county employment and the Federal employment shows in the grey or black area here. This shows that peak employment was reached in 1958 when we were operating the soil bank program. We have come down, and even with the feed grain program and the wheat stabilization program we are down below the peak employment in 1958. This 1964 estimate includes expenses for the 1964 wheat program but not a 1964 feed grain program because none is authorized for 1964. The employment level would have to increase some if a feed grain program is authorized for 1964. The next one you have been interested in through the years and one we are quite proud of, shows actual man-years of employment here in black, in our commodity offices. Our commodity offices make up about half of our Federal employment in ASCS. This shows the employment that we would have if they were still producing per person as they produced in 1952. In other words, in 1964 we will be producing 313 percent per person of what we were in 1952 in our commodity offices. If we were at the present time producing as we were in 1952, we would have to have more than 12,000 employees in commodity offices, where now we have less than 4,000. I take pride in the fact that it has actually increased nearly a 100 points since 1960. It was 216 percent of the 1952 level in 1960. For 1964 it will be 313 percent of the 1952 level. This shows the county office employment which the chairman spoke of a few moments ago. (The chart referred to follows:) |