Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your July 13 issue, you mention a total U.S. wheat supply of 17 billion bushels. That's a lot of wheat. It should have been 1.7 billion bushels...
...wharves of Karachi were gay with posters that showed U.S. and Pakistani flags joined by clasped hands beneath a stalk of wheat. Cabinet ministers, a 40-piece band and 2,000 spectators were on hand to greet the U.S. freighter Anchorage Victory, bringing the first of 1,000,000 tons of surplus wheat sent by President Eisenhower to relieve the nation's famine...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who believes that free markets are best for farmers, last week had to swallow a bitter pill. He restricted plantings for next year's wheat crop to 62 million acres, down 20% from this year's planting, and thus imposed the first acreage controls on wheat in three years. He also ordered a vote by the nation's farmers on whether marketing quotas should be imposed, the first such poll in eleven years. If two-thirds of the farmers approve the quotas, as expected, they may sell only as much as they...
Benson was forced to act under the present farm law, which requires a quota proclamation if indicated wheat supplies are 20% above "normal" domestic and foreign demand. Just the day before, Dwight Eisenhower had signed a bill to raise the minimum permissible acreage from 55 million to 62 million acres. Benson said he set the 1954 allotment at the new minimum because the indicated wheat supply would set a record high...
AGRICULTURE Secretary Benson, who has already put acreage controls on next year's wheat crop, may have to restrict 1954 corn plantings as well. On top of big surpluses, farmers are expected to harvest more than 3.3 billion bushels of corn, the second largest crop on record...