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...very success spelled trouble. As the price rose, the processors' profits dropped and so did their interest in soybeans. They could not compete with edible oils from corn and other sources, and finally they began closing down...
...Corn Fed. All of this proves that the farm situation is neither economically nor politically as explosive as the clamor would indicate. Farm-state Congressmen who joined the stampede to vote for the Democrats' ill-conceived farm bill (TIME, April 23) have received relatively little mail about the President's veto. The reaction has been selective, largely by crop. Many Southern farmers are angry because the support prices on cotton and peanuts will be considerably below last year's. There is some anger and disappointment among wheat farmers because the wheat price support announced by the President...
...corn price situation is similar: the President's guarantee adds up to a national average of $1.50 a bushel, 10? above the previously announced level, but 8? below last year. Nevertheless, many corn farmers seem to be pleased. At a Senate Republican Policy Committee meeting last week, a colleague turned to corn-growing Illinois' corn-saying Everett Dirksen and cracked: "Ev, it looks as if Benson, of all people in the world, just re-elected...
American Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago. The solid, conservative giant of U.S. farm organizations, with membership representing 1,623,000 farm families in 48 states and Puerto Rico, heavily concentrated in the corn belt states of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana (the Farm Bureau is sometimes facetiously called "The American Corn Bureau"). President: roughhewn, painfully serious Charles B. Shuman, 49, an Illinois stock and grain farmer, and a teetotaling Methodist Sunday school teacher. The American Farm Bureau grew out of the agricultural recession after World War I, aligned itself with the relatively low stopgap subsidy policies of the Roosevelt Administration...
Nashville's bid, more impressive than Cincinnati's, rests on the corn-fed program Grand Ole Opry, an NBC radio show for the past 30 years, and now an ABC-TV show too. The radio show has not missed a Saturday night broadcast since 1925, has a live audience of about 5,000 every week, has drawn over the years 5,000,000 visitors to Nashville to see Grand Ole Opry...