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...referendum sadly underscored the fact that farmers, long hit by drought and the cost-price squeeze, have become too enmeshed in the U.S. subsidy program ever to vote their own way into the uncertainties of a free market. The 1958 quotas will do little to solve wheatmen's problems. Despite the acreage limitation program and the soil-banking of more than 12 million acres (in reality often poor land) at a cost of $231 million, the 1957 crop promises to be only a fraction smaller than last year, further adding to the nation's ominous 1.3 billion...
...more than the official winter wheat estimate of a month ago. In Kansas, No. 1 wheat State, 1940 wheat was called the miracle crop; sown during a drought, all but given up for lost, it turned out to be nearly twice as big as the trade anticipated last December. Wheatmen recalled their adage, "Never bury the Kansas wheat crop until it is dead." By last week's end wheat car sidings in greater Kansas City were filling up at the rate of 1.500 cars a day, nearly double the rate of the same week last year. The Oklahoma crop...
...essential," Sir John said, "to prevent prices from being raised by knowledge [among food sellers] of the Government coming into the market. Had it been known, of course, the effect on prices would have been disadvantageous to consumers generallv as well as to the Government." That U. S. wheatmen have not been asking much as they would have asked had n Sir John and Mr. Chamberlain been secretive, and by the same token U. S. citizens have not had to pay as much for wheat and bread as otherwise would have been the case...
...making it a port was to reduce Western Canadian wheat-growers' freight rates to Europe. Churchill, at latitude 59°, is no farther from Liverpool than are Montreal and New York, both of which are twice as far from the Saskatchewan wheat fields. For 50 years Canadian wheatmen agitated for a railroad over the frozen muskeg to Churchill. In 1931 they got it, at a cost of some $30,000,000, in the form of a 510 mile spin from The Pas, Manitoba, prime junction on the Canadian National Railways. Another $25,000,000 went toward fitting up Churchill...
Such was the price wheatmen in Texas and Oklahoma as well as Kansas had to pay for their bull-headed refusal to heed the Federal Farm Board's plea to reduce acreage. Over & over had they been warned that the bottom would drop out of their staple market if they persisted in overproduction. Now they were literally reaping as they had sowed...