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THURSDAY, MARCH 29. 1962
THE CANADIAN RECORD, Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
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Proposed 1962 Farm Bill was drafted by 32 farmers
By BEN EZZELL
Editor of The Record
Although the bill is still "in
committee" in both Senate
and House, the 1962 Farm Bill
is already stirring considera-
ble controversy in the area
press . . . and a lot of discus,
sion among area farmers . . .
but so far it has generated
considerably more heat than
light.
To find out just what revo-
lutionary new provisions are
incorporated in what is being
labeled as "the Administra-
tion's Farm Bill," we obtained
a copy of the Senate version
of the bill, S. 2786, in its print-
ed form just as it was turned
over to the Agriculture Com-
mittee last month.
There are 106 pages in the
printed bill . . . some 25,000
words . . . not so long, as
such documents run. And
there's not a single "revolu-
tion."
There are some changes . . .
some loopholes nailed shut...
and some sense-making re-
visions in the programs for
feed grains and wheat. . . but
nothing very revolutionary.
The bill was drafted by
farmers, not by politicians,
which may account for some
of the down-to-etarth aspects
of it. Thirty-two farmers . . .
sixteen wheat growers, and
sixteen representing grain-
quotas on both wheat and
feed grains could be pro-
claimed for periods up to
three years, after approval of
quotas by a two-thirds vote of
farmers at a national refer-
endum. Previously, marketing
quotas could be established
for only one year at a time.
Also new in the bill: if
marketing quotas are pro-
claimed by the Secretary of
Agriculture, then rejected by
more than one-third of the
nation's farmers in a referen-
dum, quotas would not go in-
to effect ... but neither would
support payments be made.
When quotas are approved,
support payments would bo
available, as now, at from 65
to 90 per cent of parity . . .
but present provisions fol-
lower supports in event quo-
tas are rejected would he
abandoned.
The new formula would be:
no quotas, no supports. Neith-
er price supports nor diversion
payments would be available
if a program is rejected in
referendum, but the Depart-
ment of Agriculture would put
up to 10 million tons of CCC
stocks of grain sorghums (or
up to 200 million bushels of
wheat) on the market to re-
duce costs and avoid waste.
These provisions are intend-
ed to encourage compliance
with production management
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Farm, business
men invited
LaVern Edwards of Panhandle, one of the thirty-two
U. S. farmers who served on an advisory committee to
the Secretary of Agriculture in drafting the 1952 Farm
Bill which is now before Congress, will speak in Ca-
nadian next Monday night.
Mr. Edwards will discuss the proposed Farm Bill
and answer questions concerning it. The meeting, ar-
ranged by the Hemphill County ASC, will be held at
the Hemphill County Courthouse in the district court-
room, and will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Canadian busi-
nessmen, as well as area farmers and ranchers, are
invited to attend.
feed producers . . . were as-
sembled from across the na-
tion to serve as a special ad-
visory committee to Secretary
of Agriculture Orville Free-
man in drafting the farm bill.
One of them was La Vem
Edwards of Panhandle, who
will discuss the farm bill with
farmers of this area tonight
(Thursday) in a meeting at
the Lipscomb County Court-
house in Lipscomb. The meet-
ing is open to the public.
One major provision of the
bill is that national market
requirements for the four feed
grains (corn, oats, grain sor-
ghums and barley) would be
estimated jointly. In other
words, total production re-
quirements for all four grains
(plus rye, which could be in-
cluded at the discretion of the
Secretary of Agriculture)
would be considered in estab-
lishing acreage allotments
and marketing quotas.
Another Is that marketing
policies, and to protect the
government (and taxpayers)
from excessive storage and
support costs if farmers
should reject the management
programs.
The authority for the Secre-
tary of Agriculture to sell sur-
plus grains from CCC stocks
is not new. That authority has
been in effect since 1938, and
up to now, has been unlimit-
ed. The new bill simply spells
it out . . . and puts a definite
limit on the amount to be sold
in any one year.
Stiffer penalties are provid-
ed for non-compliance, too.
When quotas are in effect,
penalty for excess production
(of either wheat or grain sor-
ghums) would be figured at
65 per cent of parity . . . and
the excess would be figured
at double the normal produc-
tion of acreage in excess of
allotment . . . except that ac-
A special report on
The 1962
Farm Bill
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tual production figures can be
used if proved.
Penalties would be applica-
ble jointly and severally to
Ihose with interest in the crop,
would bear interest at 6 per
cent while unpaid, and could
he collected by means of a
lien on current and future
crops. A buyer would also be
liable for penalty on purchas-
es of excess grains.
Also incorporated in the
new farm bill is a cross com-
pliance provision which says
that producers would be eligi-
ble for price supports on feed
grains and wheat only if they
comply with all other acreage
allotments on the farm or
farms.
In the case of wheat, with
marketing quotas in effect,
price support levels would be
at 75-90 per cent of parity on
wheat accompanied by do-
mestic marketing certificates;
70-90 per cent of parity on
wheat covered by export mar-
keting certificates: and at an
appropriate level to be de-
termined by the Secretary of
Agriculture (on the basis of
competitive world prices) on
non-certificate wheat.
Marketing certificates would
be issued for each farm in
compliance with marketing
quotas and land-use require-
ments to cover its market al-
location.
Producers with any unsatis-
fied penalty would not be
eligible to receive marketing
certificates.
Acreage diverted from wheal
or grain sorghum to comply
with acreage requirements
would have to be devoted to
approved conservation use,
subject to ponaltv for failure
to comply. Provision is made
that diverted acres could be
prazed if authorized by the
Secretary of Agriculture.
Payments on diverted acres
would be in cash or grain
with provision for advance
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untary diversion of an addi-
tional 20 per cent of allot-
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diversion to 20 acres would be
encouraged, and would be el-
igible for payment.
An important feature of the
proposed new Farm Bill is
that wheat and grain sorgh-
um acreages can be inter-
changed. Feed grains could be
planted instead of wheat on
wheat acreage allotment . . .
or wheat could be planted in-
stead of feed grains on feed
grain alloted acreage.
In general the new Farm
Bill follows the trend estab-
lished by the farm program
last year . . . extending some
of its provisions, modifying
others. The program is aimed
at limiting production through
acreage allotments and mar-
keting quotas, while reducing
surpluses in storage through
a regular program of selling
surplus grain.
In the 1961 program, the
Department o f Agriculture
points out, producers diverted
some 24.8 million acres from
feed grain production, 11.2
million acres from wheat, and
an estimated 1.2 million acres
from winter barley (which
would be included with feed
grains in the new program).
Net farm income was in-
creased by $1 billion, the De-
partment reports, and CCC
costs were cut so that Secre-
tary Freeman predicts the
Commodity Credit Corporation
will eventually save $600 mil-
lion.
"Payments of around $780
million to farmers for divert-
ing land out of production,"
the Secretary of Agriculture
declared recently, "are much
more than offset by the sav-
ings in acquisition, disposal,
handling and interest costs.
Not savings will be nearly
$600 million."
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1962, newspaper, March 29, 1962; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184102/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.