Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presiding over the agricultural economy of the U.S. at a time of revolution, not revolt. Caught up in the forces of change, most U.S. farmers are worried, many are angry, a few are giving up. The revolution that besets them started slowly more than a generation ago, when U.S. farming began to change from a family way of life to a specialized indu try. Through the years new machines- tractors, trucks, combines, multiple plows, multi-row cultivators, a whole catalogue of farm equipment-made it possible for a man to farm more acres of land, to raise more and better...
...line with the Mormon concept that the family should share the father's business, the Bensons have made the U.S. farm problem their problem. As the result of long discussions at home, the Secretary's wife once got him to publicize milk-dispensing machines to help relieve the dairy-product surplus. Flora Benson attends many of his press conferences, and occasionally finds time from her duties at home (she has no maid, does her own housework) to make a speech. In Toledo last week for a speech at a Republican women's meeting, she said...
...also zigged on the soil bank. Last fall he was opposed to it and called it a "land rental scheme"; this year, faced with declining prices and even bigger surpluses, he changed his mind, agreed that it should be the heart of the Administration's 1956 farm program. Despite his opposition to high, rigid price supports, he has been willing to promise a firm 82.5% of parity on most basic crops in an effort to prevent Congress from passing a rigid 90% bill. Having learned the politic art of zigzag, he can be philosophical about it. At staff meetings...
...World War II incentive to greater production. After the war they were kept, theoretically to help the farmer make the transition back to peacetime. That they are no real help to the basic problem is easily demonstrable: more than 20% of the drop in the price of farm products occurred between February 1951 and January 1955, while high, rigid supports were in effect. As the worldwide demand for food fell off, the supports only encouraged production for the Government's bins. As of last week, the Commodity Credit Corp. had more than $9 billion of U.S. taxpayers' money...
...most part, farmers who reaped the high profits of the war years, paying off their debts and piling up capital assets, have been able to stand the postwar adjustment without real distress. The man hardest hit by the slump is the "new" farmer, who moved onto the farm after World War II when original costs were high. Such a farmer is Melvin Anderson, 40, who rents and farms 230 acres owned by a prosperous big farmer in Henry County, Ill., the "hog capital of the country...