Federal Crop Insurance: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session on S. 1397, a Bill to Create a Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, and for Other Purposes |
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My general suggestions to your committee follow : In the past 372 years , the
Government has helped farmers to meet emergencies of two kinds . The first was
a collapse of prices resulting from huge surpluses for which the foreign markets ...
My general suggestions to your committee follow : In the past 372 years , the
Government has helped farmers to meet emergencies of two kinds . The first was
a collapse of prices resulting from huge surpluses for which the foreign markets ...
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That , it seems to me , has some bearing on the possibility of the plan proposed in
this bill being utilized by the farmers , at least in certain areas . Personally it
would be my guess that the wheat growing areas , where the hazards associated
or ...
That , it seems to me , has some bearing on the possibility of the plan proposed in
this bill being utilized by the farmers , at least in certain areas . Personally it
would be my guess that the wheat growing areas , where the hazards associated
or ...
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farmers even if not of the insured . Wheat insurance and any other crop insurance
should be limited to farms reasonably adapted to the crop insured , regardless of
the market . Secretary Wallace states that of the 610 , 000 , 000 tilled or tillable ...
farmers even if not of the insured . Wheat insurance and any other crop insurance
should be limited to farms reasonably adapted to the crop insured , regardless of
the market . Secretary Wallace states that of the 610 , 000 , 000 tilled or tillable ...
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I think the average farmer feels exactly as Mr . Vesecky expressed himself , that
there is absolutely no way to curb the ... care of the many things asked and
needed , including the assured income , so that farmers might work and produce
for the ...
I think the average farmer feels exactly as Mr . Vesecky expressed himself , that
there is absolutely no way to curb the ... care of the many things asked and
needed , including the assured income , so that farmers might work and produce
for the ...
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W . , Kansas City , Kans . , Farmers Union . Hodgson , E . H . , Little River , Kans . ,
member , Farm Bureau . Huff , C . E . , Chicago , Ill . , Farmers National Grain
Corporation . Patton , James G . Denver , Colo . , Colorado Farmers Union .
W . , Kansas City , Kans . , Farmers Union . Hodgson , E . H . , Little River , Kans . ,
member , Farm Bureau . Huff , C . E . , Chicago , Ill . , Farmers National Grain
Corporation . Patton , James G . Denver , Colo . , Colorado Farmers Union .
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| Title | Federal Crop Insurance: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session on S. 1397, a Bill to Create a Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, and for Other Purposes |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 223 pages |
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