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...Hardly anyone denies that the farm program is riddled with inconsistencies, inequities and absurdities. A farmer in Minnesota, who recently rented 300 acres of grassland, simply turned around and put it into the feed grain program's acreage diversion plan, which pays the farmer 62½ for every bushel of corn he does not grow but reasonably might have. Thus, without so much as sinking a spade in his earth, the farmer made a clear profit of more than $8,000. "And, besides," he noted accurately, "I can graze that rented land after October...
...Farm Bureau argues that acreage allotments for wheat and feed grains should be dropped, that support prices should be pegged to the equivalent of the average world market price for the past three years (for wheat, $1.38 a bushel; for corn, $1), and that the Government should be prohibited from selling its surplus stocks at less than 125% of the support price, allowing the market price to rise above the support level. The Bureau even faults the new cropland retirement plan, though that has long been one of the organization's pet schemes for whittling down surpluses...
...Freeman explained it, he was merely defending the Great Society against "aggressive, go-for-broke special interests." Specifically, he was battling for a new, cash-enriched farm bill whose most controversial provision was a 50?-per-bushel increase (to $1.25) in the special subsidy paid to farmers for high-grade domestically consumed wheat. The only snag was Freeman's notion that wheat processors should subsidize the increased subsidy by paying the entire 500 increase themselves...
...They already have to absorb the current 75? subsidy. The increase, added to the basic support price of $1.25, would guarantee farmers a $2.50-per-bushel price for wheat they grow under federal acreage allotments...
...either illiterate or poor. I've had a lot of jobs that sound folky--but I was just a kid on vacation. I drove a truck for a while, until somebody discovered that I didn't have a license. Once I picked apples for five cents a bushel and all I could eat; I was only five at the time and didn't know any better. I reached the heights though, the summer I worked as a packager in a supermarket, a loyal member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butchers Workmen of North America--A.F. of L.C.I.O...