Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxpayer going to stand for it? I can't think any program relying on Government help in the long run is an answer. It's phony, phony as hell." A Utah farmer looks at it the same way: "You can't buy a solution to the farm problem by spending more and more money. So why don't they stop trying, before the city people rise up in arms?" Says Indiana Farm Editor (Indianapolis News') Frank Salzarulo: "It's time to quit being average or quit farming. Most farmers are willing to junk...
...acres) Kansas farmer has another idea: give farmers an income-tax break by letting them average good years with bad. A little (ten acres) Georgia cotton farmer who seldom nets more than $400 a year, thinks the only "fair thing" is 100%-of-parity supports under all farm commodities-or at least under cotton. A Colorado wheat farmer offers still another plan: "Congress should create huge cooperatives to handle the crops, and only enough should be let out to maintain the market." But farm experts who take a broad view see no simple, straightforward answer. "The farm problem," broods...
...Washington in 1953 convinced that a dedicated agriculture secretary, willing to rise above politics and make himself personally unpopular, could end huge surpluses, high price supports, acreage controls and big Agriculture Department budgets. But it was Benson's bad luck to take his job just as the farm economy was about to feel the technological explosion's full impact. Under the impact, farm prices sagged. With net farm income sliding from $13.3 billion in 1953 to $11.6 billion in 1956, U.S. farmers were in no mood for experiments with lower price supports, and Congress was in no mood...
...from Congress in 1954 a grudging bit of price-support flexibility, but last year it took an Eisenhower veto to keep Capitol Hill from restoring the old system of rigid, mandatory support, at 90% of parity, under six basic farm commodities, including wheat, cotton, corn. Benson himself has had to learn to bend with political winds, to compromise, zigzag and, as he puts it with a wan smile, "rise above principle...
Benson wants Congress to get rid of rigid, mandatory price supports altogether, grant the Agriculture Secretary authority to set support under any farm commodity at whatever level he deems suitable, from 100% down. If Benson gets his way, the Government will no longer use supports to try to make farming profitable even for an inefficient farmer on an obsolete small farm. Supports would serve only to prevent drastic price falls from one year to the next. In coping with a commodity in oversupply, e.g., wheat, Benson would lower the support price bit by bit. Gradually, farmers would shift wheat fields...