Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the narrow stubbles of Vermont to the vast fields of Kansas, U.S. wheat farmers last week filed into courthouses one-room schools, community meeting halls and country stores to make a decision. The question they faced was one of both principle and pocketbook. Should they accept stern federal control of wheat production in return for high price supports, or should they take their chances in a free market...
Unhappy Choice. When they go to their polling places next week, farmers thus will be choosing between greater Government control and greater economic risk. No matter which way they vote, the wheat growers will get less return for their crop next year-either the acreage or the price will...
Last week, some Agriculture Department officials and farm leaders were predicting that more than two-thirds of the farmers will vote yes. Said Farmer Lynn Wallen of Nebraska's Red Willow County: "I can't see any reason why wheat farmers should ever vote for $1.20 and against $2.20 a bushel...
That fear points up the fact that marketing quotas are not a satisfactory long-term solution to the wheat problem. In the wheat belt last week, farm leaders were thinking seriously about other answers. Among them: more flexible price supports to discourage surplus production, an aid-trade program to help other countries buy U.S. wheat, greatly increased research into new uses of wheat...
...Ideal Food." The new emphasis on the U.S. waistline has forced some food producers into hasty counteraction. Dieting has already helped cut per capita consumption of wheat flour from 157 Ibs. pre-war to 130 Ibs. a year, and the worried American Bakers Association is spending a good part of its $1,000,000 advertising budget to plug bread as a reducing food. Annual potato consumption dropped from 132 Ibs. per capita in 1939 to 104 Ibs. last year...