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...Unacceptable hodgepodge," snapped Agriculture Secretary Benson a month ago when the Senate passed a farm bill freighted with amendments designed to curry election-year favor with virtually every special interest in U.S. agriculture. Last week, in more diplomatic vein, President Eisenhower made a public appeal to the House-Senate Conference Committee that was ironing out differences between the Senate bill and an almost equally objectionable farm bill passed by the House a year ago. Said the President in his press conference: "I have never been one to say . . . that you must hold up good things in order to attain perfection...
...Minimum 80% of parity for dairy products-an increase of 5% over present supports. (Said Benson: "This would return us to the dark days...
...Dual parity, an arrangement that would set up two methods of calculating parity prices on wheat, corn, cotton, rice and peanuts and give farmers the higher of the two. (Said Benson: "This would make a joke of parity. Parity . . . would become a statistical stairway to the promised land...
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson went a step further. Said he: "I cannot conceive of President Eisenhower signing a farm bill he knows and I know is a bad bill...
...Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson kept selling what he could sell, and giving away the rest. In three years more than 600 million pounds were donated for welfare use (e.g., school lunches) at home and abroad, and some 300 million pounds were sold, some at reduced prices for export. Last week Benson announced the startling results of his efforts: the U.S. Government is fresh out of surplus butter, will go into the peak milk-producing season beginning April 1 without an unsold pound on its shelves...