Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in its farm season the Senate had seemed to be plowing a straight furrow. There was almost unanimous support for the Eisenhower Administration's soil bank plan, which could reduce surpluses and put some sure money into farmers' pockets this year. In the first votes on the issue, a majority upheld the Administration's flexible price support system (TIME, March 19). But then political pressure got too strong, blocs of special interest Senators amended the bill to a condition described by Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken as "tortured and battered, warped and emasculated...
...after 41 amendments were adopted, the net effect was 1) nullification of the flexible system, 2) a general increase in support levels. As a result, the U.S. Department of Agriculture would be spending millions of dollars to cure surpluses through the soil bank plan and millions more to fill the bins again through high price supports...
...soybeans, oats, barley and pasturage. Under Eastland's close supervision, the land is cultivated according to the most scientific information available. Each spring, tractor-pulled applicators, straddling four rows at a time, inject seventy tons of anhydrous ammonia to the exact depth of 15 inches into the Eastland soil. Heavy plows bite deep into the Delta loam and turn under 150 tons of carefully prepared silage. Tons of cottonseed hulls provide humus for sections where the soil is heavy. This year, for the first time, several hundred acres of cotton will be irrigated by Eastland's own irrigation...
...what I remember most is what you did to our land, and now I am distressed because even I did not forsee the unhappy results. You see," and he leaned forward, eagerly, "we have been lemon farmers for many generations. On our land, there is good soil for farming, and too, there are some rocky hills which must be leveled to make more land for farming. My father and his father before him and back into time have farmed the land, and also--with their hands--leveled the hills, so that each has a bit more than his father...
...amendments to the farm bill, and then the bill has to go to conference, where it will be up against a rigid support bill passed by the House last year. At week's end, Secretary Benson was prodding Congress to hurry the bill through so the widely favored soil bank plan will put some money into farmers' pockets this year...