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...remark, "Farming has little appeal for young men nowadays," made my blood boil. What's wrong with farming? Where else can you be your own boss without punching a time clock? And why do people insist on cracking those corn-fed jokes about the "dumb" farmer and his wife...
...midst of one of the major famines of history, the government was perpetually nervous of being too good to Ireland and of corrupting the Irish people by kindness, and so stifling the virtues of self-reliance and industry." As applied by bumbling bureaucrats, the doctrine meant that food (Indian corn mostly) should only be distributed by private agencies. Private traders (though few existed) should import the stuff. Exporters should on no account be hindered in their natural economic function. As a result, oats were carried to the docks for export past starving...
...might as well settle down to the uncompromising fact that our people will grow in proportion as we teach them that the way to have the most of Jesus and in a permanent form is to mix with their religion some land, cotton and corn, a house with two or three rooms, and a little bank account. With these interwoved with our religion, there will be a foundation for growth upon which we can build for all time...
Supply management got a critical test last year in Freeman's new program for corn, barley and other "feed grains" (so called because they are mainly grown for livestock feed). Freeman raised feed grain support prices. But in order to qualify for crop loans, farmers had to cut their feed grain acreage by at least 20%. Farmers who did so received "diversion payments" equal to 50% of the value of the crops they would normally have grown on the diverted acres. A similar feed grain program, with lower diversion payments, is in operation again this year...
Freeman claims that his 1962 feed grain program was a "dramatic success." He points to sharp drops in the CCC's inventories of corn and other feed grains. That claim is sharply disputed by President Charles Shuman of the National Farm Bureau Federation, biggest of U.S. farmer organizations. Freeman's 1962 feed grain venture, says Shuman, cost about $768 million in diversion payments, with additional expenditures for higher price supports and extra administrative expenses. For its money, argues Shuman, the Agriculture Department got too little: the farmers participating in the program increased their per-acre yields so effectively...