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...BIGGEST news magazine in the country has a message straight from the mouth of Earl Butz for America's farmers: Get bit or get out. Though Time counts on its readers to forget that writers (and editors) with opinions bang out its byline-less features, the author(s) of its Nov. 6 cover story, "The New U.S. Farmer," had obviously studied up on his Adam Smith economics and his Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics in preparation for this defense of U.S. agriculture, "the productivity wonder of the world." Couched in Timese idiom, readers might almost be lulled into believing this...
...both sides of his mouth." By criticizing the sale of jets to Saudi Arabia, Seith hopes to gain support from Jews. He has also been running an unfair advertisement on Chicago's black radio stations implying that Percy approved the racial jokes that cost former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz his job in 1976. The ads do not mention that Percy himself had called for Butz's resignation...
...final uncertainty facing agriculture is Government farm policy. Pat Benedict complains that it consists of "frustrating contradictions," and he has a point. For 40 years, starting with the New Deal, policy aimed at having farmers restrict production and sell at high Government-supported prices. In 1973-74, Earl Butz tried a new tack: he lobbied through Congress the law under which farmers could no longer unload their crops on the Government, urged them to increase output by planting "fence to fence," and set target prices far below market quotes. He got away with it because rocketing export demand permitted farmers...
...Carter Administration, which took office when farm prices were falling drastically, partially reversed the Butz policy. Besides urging farmers to participate in set-aside programs, it has, with considerable prodding from Congress, established target prices for wheat and corn that are above today's market quotes, even though these target prices by no means guarantee farmers a profit. Government outlays to support farm incomes have quadrupled in two years, to an estimated $7.9 billion in fiscal 1978. But the Administration has resisted pressure to set support prices still higher?even though Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland last winter had to climb...
...home, the necessity for the successful farmer to become a financier-salesman-engineer-scientist has accelerated a rural social revolution. Former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz vigorously preached the virtues of large-scale efficient farming, a message often translated in the croplands into five blunt words: Get big or get out. The decline in U.S. farm population that has been under way at least since 1910 has speeded up in recent years. By April 1977, only 1 of every 28 Americans lived on a farm, vs. 1 in 21 in 1970 and 1 in 3 early in the century...