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...Washington for his second tour, Cooper opposed the Bricker amendment, the tidelands bill and the Benson farm program. His main legislative achievement belongs to Cooper the practical politician rather than to Cooper the high-minded statesman. He got through an amendment fixing tobacco supports rigidly at 90% of parity, a triumph that endeared him to many of his tobacco-grower constituents...
Acting to stem a further flood of wheat into storage,. Farm Secretary Ezra Taft Benson this week ordered a 13% cutback in next year's planting acreage. In what he acknowledged as perhaps the strictest control plan in U.S. farm history, Benson also ordered farmers to comply with planting allotments on all their crops for which restrictions may be set in order to qualify for price-support aid on any crop. Though he "greatly regrets" such action, Benson said he has "no immediate choice" under present crop conditions...
Growing Mountain. Last week it was plain that the wheat problem will get worse before it gets better. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson predicted that this year's U.S. crop will total 999,561,000 bushels, almost 100 million more than predicted only two months ago. While 15% below last year, because of acreage reductions, the harvest would still be 140 million bushels more than the U.S. expects to need for domestic and foreign markets. Barring some unforeseen new demand, the record U.S. wheat stocks of 875 million bushels (previous record: 1942's 631 million) will...
...feel he is encouraging regimentation when he states that the majority of farmers want to be regimented. We are of the opinion that since the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture received federal funds he is in a way a subordinate of Secretary Benson and his attack on Mr. Benson's policies as early as April 1953 before Benson had time to be judged right or wrong were out of place...
FOREIGN BUTTER PRODUCERS are up in arms against Agriculture Secretary Benson's plan to sell surplus U.S butter overseas at low prices (42? to 47? a lb., v. about 58? in the U.S.). Both New Zealand and Australia, which export about 500 million Ibs. of butter annually, have protested to the State Department that Benson's cut-rate prices constitute dumping. But Benson still plans to go ahead; in fact, he is adding surplus corn, barley, oats and rye to his cut-rate foreign offerings...