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Like the Secret Service guards and the White House itself, the farm problem comes with the job of being President. Last February, President John Kennedy began trying his hand at solving the farm fiasco with a complex feed-grain program-and by last week, as Agriculture Department experts studied the first solid returns on the 1961 crop, it was obvious that Kennedy, like most of his predecessors, had only succeeded in making matters worse...
Kennedy's program set out to grapple with the fact that U.S. farmers constantly overproduce feed grains-particularly corn-thereby causing prices to fall and Government surplus stockpiles to bulge. To induce the farmer to grow less, the program bribed him with subsidies: for cutting his normal acreage of corn or grain sorghums by 20%, the Government paid him 50% of the value of the forgone crop. This payment was made either in cash or in the form of grain taken from the surplus stockpiles, which the farmer could then sell or feed to his stock...
...Grain (millions of tons...
Another agronomist touring the Eastern European satellite countries was equally amazed. In Hungary, enough machinery parts "to supply six collectives" lay rusting in the open air. In Czechoslovakia on a Sunday, there was no one in the fields to turn the cut grain, drenched by a recent rain, so that it would be dry on Monday. A collective farm boss in Rumania confessed that the peasants "just don't care any more." This year's total harvest in Eastern Europe will be scarcely better than prewar production in the same area. Significantly, perhaps, the best yield will...
...midsummer, the Soviet press was trumpeting claims that this year's harvest would be the greatest in Russian history. Then last month the breast beating began in earnest. In Soviet Kazakhstan, home of Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious virgin-lands project, Party Secretary Dinmukhamed Kunaev glumly confessed that grain production was down for the third successive year and would fall 36% short of plan. Kunaev-whose two predecessors were fired for farm failures-blamed the collective farmers for clumsy plowing, which permitted "a tremendous incursion of weeds," and for inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain...