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...proposal raises several questions that are as yet unanswered: Who will contribute to the reserve? Who will finance the storage and transport of the grain and who will control it? U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, whose views are crucial because no reserve system could function without major U.S. participation, worries that the existence of the surplus stocks could hang over the commercial market and depress the prices paid to farmers for their crops. His fear is based on the Government's experience handling the enormous U.S. grain surpluses during the 1950s and 1960s. American farmers commonly-and often...
...policy, but it is perhaps the only kind that can have any long-range impact. A triage approach could also demand political concessions. The U.S. may be roundly denounced for "imperialist arrogance," but Washington may feel no obligation to help countries that consistently and strongly opposed it. As Earl Butz told TIME: "Food is a weapon. It is now one of the principal tools in our negotiating...
...controlling grain exports, the Administration hopes to forestall such embarrassments as the "holding in abeyance" on Oct. 5 of $500 million worth of corn and wheat contracted for by the Soviet Union. Having too hastily assumed, on the basis of talks between Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz in late September, that the Russians were interested only in "modest" purchases of a million tons or so, the White House was startled to learn early this month that between 5 million and 10 million tons of grain might soon be heading to the U.S.S.R. Ford promptly called in executives...
...easiest way to combat inflationary food prices is to apply the old maxim: no ifs, no ands, no Butz...
Best cold comfort: Secretary Earl Butz's reassurance that though prices will keep rising, the U.S. will not run out of food...