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...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...
...F.D.R.s Lap. In scope and philosophy, Charlie Shuman's outfit today has little in common with the Farm Bureau that set out 45 years ago as a "wedding of corn and cotton"-meaning farm interests of the Middle West and the South. In the dire early days of the New Deal, when the bottom had dropped out of farming, the Farm Bureau cheered virtually every program it now condemns. It sat on Franklin Roosevelt's lap, busily buried pigs for Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace -even had a loose alliance with labor (in exchange for labor's support...
...large part of Shuman's weekend is spent looking over the 1,013-acre mixed farm (corn, wheat, hogs, Aberdeen-Angus beef cattle) that Shuman owns in partnership with his three older sons. Like father, like sons. The Shuman boys are hotly against government in agriculture. "I don't see why the Federal Government should support me," said Charles. "Dad wouldn't accept a green check-from the Government-and neither would we."† Weekend over, Mabel drives Charlie back to Mattoon on Monday morning in time to catch the 7:06 back...
With the diverse interests of the organization's members-from Maine potato growers to Florida citrus farmers, California orchardists to Wisconsin dairymen, and hog, peanut, cotton, livestock, wheat, rice and corn growers scattered in between-it is a wonder that Shuman is able to make a coherent presentation on anything. Yet surveys by farm magazines show that a majority of the Farm Bureau's members approve of the organization's policies as articulated by Shuman...