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...came out last week. It came not from the Army or Navy but from the Agriculture Department's Crop Reporting Board. CRB's latest report-on 1942 farm planting-was, as usual, statistics-crammed, unreadable. But in the light of Secretary Claude Wickard's maxim: "Food will win the war and write the peace" (TIME, July 21), CRB's communiqué showed that the U.S. had won the first big engagement in the Battle of the Soil...
When Secretary Wickard boosted and re-boosted food-production goals last fall, he had only hope. The report showed that U.S. farmers are hard at work on the war-time quotas; if they get sufficient labor for the harvests, they will come through...
...Wickard asked for 13% more eggs; the farmers by February had already given him 15%. He asked for 9,000,000 acres of soybeans; the farmers planned to plant 14,000,000. He asked for 8% more corn, to be fed to more hogs and cattle; the farmers promised 5% plus a barley expansion which would make up the difference. Only in peanuts were plantings behind the goals; instead of the 255% increase he asked for, he will...
These new rates mean increased costs to almost every big U.S. manufacturer, to consumers and to the Government, now the nation's largest single shipper. Yet at the ICC hearings the only real opposition to it came from farmer-befriending Secretary Wickard. Not even Leon Henderson protested. For he knew the boost, however inflationary, was probably inevitable...
Since Army & Navy are taking a huge chunk of all farmers' produce, Messrs. Roosevelt & Wickard had a pretty big price stick after all. A disgusted Congress could still vote more farm subsidies and dare the President to veto them. But as House Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Steagall ruefully put it, "there's nothing in the bill that can repeal the right of free speech"-and a Roosevelt crack is still good for a break in the market...