The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1969 Page: 4 of 8
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"The Chronicle, Teague, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 14, 1969-
Testimony On Proposed Farm Program
Presented To Agricultural Committee
WACO (Spl.) — Testimony
on proposed farm program legis-
lation presented Tuesday, Aug.
5 to the Agricultural Committee
of the U. S. House of Represent-
atives “bears out what we in
Texas have known for a. long
time,” commented Sidney Dean,
president of the Texas Farm
Bureau. “Market prices of gov-
ernment-controlled crops contin-
ue to set record low levels, while
uncontrolled crops and livestock
continue to make new gains.”
We must start the transition to
a market-place economy “now,”
Dean said.
The TFB president’s remarks
were in reference to the testi-
mony presented by American
Farm Bureau President Charles
B. Shuman at a House Agricul-
ture Committee hearing in which
Shuman endorsed the proposed
Agricultural Adjustment Act of
1969. This legislation has been
introduced by two members of
the Agriculture Committee —
Representatives Charles Teague
(R. Calif.) and George Goodling
(R. Penn.), 19 other members
of the House and 20 Senators.
In his testimony, Shuman,
president of the nation’s largest
general farm organization, call-
ed on Congress to enact what he
called “a broad based program
to help individual farmers make
needed adjustments, increase
prices, expand markets, cut
costs and thus provide the basis
for increased net farm income.”
“The Food and Agriculture
Act of 1965 is a demonstrated
failure,” the Farm Bureau pres-
ident said.
“Despite the expenditure of
billions of dollars, farm prob-
lems have not been solved, and
farmers have not achieved a
satisfactory level of net farm in-
come.
“A completely new approach
is needed,” he declared. And he
added:
“New legislation should be en-
acted this year so that farmers
can plan ahead. The hour is al-
ready late.”
Shuman said the proposed Ag-
ricultural Adjustment Act of
1969 would provide for a five-
year transition period during
which acreage controls, base
acreages, marketing quotas,
processing taxes, and direct
payments for wheat, feed grains,
and: cotton would be phased out.
It would also:
—Direct the Secretary of Ag-
riculture to retire at least 10
■ million acres per year under the
Cropland Adjustment Program
from 1971 through 1975.
—Provide government price
support loans for wheat, feed
grains, cotton, and soybeans
not more than 85 per cent of tne
previous three - year - average
price beginning with the 1971
crop year.
—Prohibit the sale of govern-
ment stocks of farm commodi-
ties at less than 150 per cent of
the current loan rate plus car-
rying charges, except when sales
are offset by equivalent pur-
chases in the open market.
—Authorize the Secretary of
Agriculture to offer a special
transitional program to any
farmer who has had average
gross annual sales of farm pro-
ducts of not more than $5,000
and off-farm income of not more
than $2,000 per year for hus-
band and wife for the immedi-
ately preceding three years.
Such farmers would be eligible
to receive compensation for
acreage allotments and base
acreages surrendered to the sec-
retary for permanent cancella-
tion; land retirement payments
under the Cropland Adjustment
Program; retraining grants; ad-
justment assistance, and loans
under existing credit programs.
This special program for low
income farmers, Shuman said,
would help farmers who do not
have the resources needed for
a successful farming operation
to make a transition to more
gainful employment.” He added
that it would be “entirely vol-
untary.”
The Farm Bureau president
emphasized that, under the pro-
posed legislation, “the transition
to the market system would be
gradual.”
“Substantial payments would
be made during the transition
period to help farmers make
needed adjustments,” he said.
He said that, in contrast to
existing programs, the proposed
expansion of the Cropland Ad-
justment Program “would more
economically divert surplus crop
land to non crop uses.”
“The retirement of whole
farms would result in the retire-
ment of some non-land resources
and eliminate the increase in
per acre yields which results
when resources formerly used
for ‘diverted acres’ are shifted
to land that remains in produc-
tion on the same farm,” he said.
“At the end of the proposed
phase-out of acreage allotments,
marketing quotas, base acreages,
certificates and government pay-
ments for feed grains, wheat,
and cotton each producer would
be free to plan his wheat, feed
grain, cotton and soybean pro
duction so as to make the bebt
uses of his resources in the light
of the market outlpok. Thus, tne1
way would be clear for farmeis
to earn and get higher incomes
in the marketplace.”
The Farm Bureau president
told the Agriculture Committee
that Congress should encourage
the Nixon Administration to
withdraw from the International
Wheat Trade Convention so that
the depressing effect of “inverse
subsidies” can be removed from
wheat prices. He also said Con-
gress should continue to reject
proposals to authorize the estab-
lishment of government reserves
of farm commodities.
PERSONALS
“Government reserves are not
needed for the protection of con-
sumers,” he said.
“They are primarily a device
for holding down farm prices.”
Shuman was accompanied at
the hearings by J. Merrill An-
derson, Iowa; Robert Delano,
Virginia; Ray Frisbie, Kansas:
Allan Grant, California; Floyd
Hawkins, Arizona; William
Kuhfuss, Illinois; John Pitzer,
Pennsylvania; Elton R. Smith,
Michigan; and Boswell Stevens,
Mississippi, all presidents of
their respective State Farm Bu-
reaus.
Clint Wilkinson of Houston
spent last week visiting his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
R. Gillihan
—o—
Mrs. Ida Scott and grand-
daughter, Lesa Graham, of Donie
visited in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Gillihan Friday.
—o—
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gilliam and
grandson, Norman Vance, of
Freeport, visited Mrs. W. L.
Lamberth, Mrs. J. H. Bond, and
other relatives in Teague and
Freestone Monday and Tuesday.
JEFFREY DALE LARSON
CELEBRATES 1st BIRTHDAY
Jeffrey Dale Larson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Larson and
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Haynie of Houston, celebrated
his 1st birthday August 10,1969.
An open house was held and
all decorations were firemen
since his daddy is a fireman. An
attractive table was set includ-
ing a fireman tablecloth,^fire
truck centerpiece, napkins, cups
and plates all were in the fire-
man pattern. His cake was deco-
rated with a firetruck and lad-
der. Twenty-three guests attend-
ed.
----■—
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Lamberth,
Temple, visited their mother,
Mrs. W. L. Lamberth last week.
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Massey, Ralph E. The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1969, newspaper, August 14, 1969; Teague, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1148599/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.