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...previous years, wheat farmers had voted on similar but milder plans; each time they said yes by at least the two-thirds majority required for approval. But the margins had steadily dwindled, and Freeman had long known he was in for a real fight this year. He and his sprawling Agriculture Department campaigned tirelessly, told farmers that their choice was between $1 wheat and $2 wheat. Freeman's major antagonist was the big American Farm Bureau Federation and its president, Charles Shuman. The Farm Bureau's slogan: "Freedom v. Freeman...
...Flexibility. Only six states gave the Freeman program a two-thirds majority. One was Maine, where a mere 32 farmers cast ballots. The other five were all in the South: Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. In none of these states is wheat nearly as important as cotton and tobacco. Both of these crops have long operated under high-support, strict-control programs, and Southern farmers have become so fond of the supports they will accept almost all controls...
Outside the South, the vote against Freeman's program cut across all regional lines. Of the nation's top wheat-producing states-Kansas, North Dakota. Montana, Oklahoma and Washington-only North Dakota, with 65.8% in favor, even came close to giving Freeman a two-thirds majority. Among the so-called corn-belt states, those west of the Mississippi tended to favor the Freeman program, although not by two-thirds. In these states -Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska-the price of corn often follows the price of wheat. Many farmers plainly feared that lower wheat prices would...
...Ohio. Illinois and Indiana cast about 300,000 votes, or one-fourth of the national total, and in each state the returns went lopsidedly against Freeman's proposals. In these states, the secret to successful farming is flexibility. Farmers there like to shift from crop to crop-mainly wheat, corn and soybeans-as prices and supply conditions change. But under Freeman's plan, a farmer's past wheat production would determine his marketing quota; farmers were apprehensive that establishing this wheat "history" would lock them into wheat production at the cost of flexibility...
SINCE the law that proposed the new wheat plan excluded Hawaii and Alaska, farmers in those states were not eligible to vote. Wheat production in New Hampshire is so slight that no one voted there. The only states in which the plan was given the necessary two-thirds majority...