Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HELP. The pilot quickly passed the word on the radio that someone was in trouble down there. Police found the distressed party. Farmer Joe Wing, who had just finished plowing under part of his wheat crop to meet U.S. acreage restrictions. "I was just hoping," he explained, "that Ezra Benson might see it if he happened to be flying over...
RECORD CORN SURPLUS will bulge Government granaries this fall, prove Agriculture Secretary Benson's contention that present high-fixed supports, instead of lower levels he wants, have not trimmed surplus and never will. Stockpile will soar from previous high of 992 million bu. last January to 1.3 billion bu., including 480 million bu. of new crop, 825 million of carryover...
Fleming's figures were underlined in a press conference in Washington where Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson took pride in the fact that his department this fiscal year is selling 7,500,000 bales of surplus cotton abroad v. total U.S. cotton exports last year of 2,200,000 bales. But Benson conceded that the Government will lose $530 million by selling cotton for an average of $115 a bale v. the Government cost...
...soil bank was a compromise from the start. After campaigning for years to get rid of costly, futile, surplus-accumulating price supports, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson was forced in pre-election 1956 to settle for much less flexibility in price-support levels than he wanted. Reluctantly he and the Administration adopted the soil bank, a three-year program of paying farmers to reduce production, with the hope that after 1959 surpluses would be gone, and farmers could get back to a free market. In its favor were plausible arguments about conserving the soil, preventing erosion, etc. But even before...
Last week there were still some Agriculture Department officials and Congressmen who said that if its operation could be improved the soil bank might yet do some good. Secretary Benson himself argued that the bank should be allowed to operate for at least one full year in order to have a fair trial. But unless it was cleaned up soon, the bank was fast joining the list of discredited agricultural panaceas. For political reasons the Senate is almost certain to restore most of the cuts. The House will probably go along at some compromise figure, if for no other reason...