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...Plan, nevertheless, had to survive the criticisms of most farm economists and many farm legislators. To critics the Brannan proposals looked as dangerous as the malady they were supposed to cure. Nobody could make an honest prediction of what it would cost, including Charlie Brannan himself (he thought it might be no more than the present program); other guesses ranged as high as $9.5 billion a year...
While it might impose no new controls, the Brannan Plan would extend them to many more farmers. A lot of the controls were designed for the farmer's own good (soil conservation, sensible crop limitations, etc.), but any independent-minded farmer would have a harder time escaping them unless he wanted to sell all his produce at low, unprotected market prices. A wrong guess on a major crop could cost the Treasury millions more in subsidy checks; in this hazardous field, the Department of Agriculture's forecasting system had not distinguished itself in predicting the 1950 winter-wheat...
...Unimal. But what was the U.S. to do about its plague of plenty? If the present farm program was profligate and the Brannan Plan was apt to be even more so, what solution was there? If there were no politicians around to outpromise each other for the farmer's vote, could a sensible program be designed? Could the $25 billion-a-year farm business ever stand on its own feet? The answer, from most experts, was a guarded "maybe"; they could see a possible way out, though they argued about how to achieve...
...farmer to change over to livestock required new equipment, new habits, new knowledges and plenty of capital. Brannan insisted that his farm plan was precisely the machine to convert the farmer-by bribing him with higher support prices for meats than for grains. But his critics pointed to an inconsistency: the Brannan Plan, mindful of the votes of the grain farmers, still promises high enough supports for grain products to keep wheat and corn growers satisfied with just what they are doing...
...like Corn &Hog Raiser Carroll Brown of Oskaloosa, Iowa. "When the farmer asks too much," he reasoned, "the rest of the guys may gang up on us some of these days and we'll get nothing." There were those who felt like C. B. Skipper of Georgia: "The Brannan Plan? I'm against it. I don't like to feel that anybody is giving me anything. The way things work now, I don't feel like anybody is giving me a handout." And there were, above all, farmers who spoke out like B. F. Vinson...