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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wheat in years of large crops and releasing them on the market in years of crop
failure . This would tend to reduce the fluctuations in the market supply and the
fluctuations in price of wheat . Further , it would provide the country with
assurance ...
wheat in years of large crops and releasing them on the market in years of crop
failure . This would tend to reduce the fluctuations in the market supply and the
fluctuations in price of wheat . Further , it would provide the country with
assurance ...
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The wheat was out on the ground and there was no place to store it , is that not
true ? . Mr . VESECKY . That is true , Senator . Senator FRAZIER . And farmers
out there were forced to sell that wheat in the neighborhood of 25 cents per
bushel .
The wheat was out on the ground and there was no place to store it , is that not
true ? . Mr . VESECKY . That is true , Senator . Senator FRAZIER . And farmers
out there were forced to sell that wheat in the neighborhood of 25 cents per
bushel .
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You understand this bill applies only to wheat ? Mr . PATTON . Yes ; we
understand that . Senator McGILL . And the reason for that is it is the one
commodity they seem to have figures on , on which to base a sound program . Mr
. PATTON .
You understand this bill applies only to wheat ? Mr . PATTON . Yes ; we
understand that . Senator McGILL . And the reason for that is it is the one
commodity they seem to have figures on , on which to base a sound program . Mr
. PATTON .
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That is the hard winter wheat territory of this country and if we eliminate or limit its
production we shall have to import strong wheat . Senator MCGILL . We could not
produce enough wheat in the country without that territory to supply the ...
That is the hard winter wheat territory of this country and if we eliminate or limit its
production we shall have to import strong wheat . Senator MCGILL . We could not
produce enough wheat in the country without that territory to supply the ...
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I am secretary of the National Wheat League . I want to impress on you that we
are an organization of farmers with about 3 , 000 members , which makes it
probably the smallest organization of farmers in America . But our farmers have
been ...
I am secretary of the National Wheat League . I want to impress on you that we
are an organization of farmers with about 3 , 000 members , which makes it
probably the smallest organization of farmers in America . But our farmers have
been ...
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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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