Word: farming
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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...
Since January farm prices have been edging up, and if the edging continues, the worry among farmers will ease a little. As rain fell over much of the farm belt last week, farmers were far more jubilant than they were over anything that Washington might do for support prices. As farm-area merchants know, when prices are rising, farmers start to look and then to smile and then to buy. Said one farm observer: "A farmer feels a lot better with hogs at $15 if they are on their way up from $11, not on the way down from...
Politically, the prospects for 1956 are that there will be some shift of farm votes from the Republican to the Democratic side, but no revolt. Some politicians think that the switch may be large enough to change some congressional seats, but barring plummeting prices or Act of God, there is no reason to believe that Dwight Eisenhower will not carry the farm belt in November...
...farmer speaks mostly through his farm organizations. If the farmer's voice sometimes seems garbled in transmission, it is because the farm organizations themselves differ greatly in background, makeup, leadership and outlook. The nation's major farm organizations...
...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...