ACREAGE-POUNDAGE MARKETING HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION ON S. 821 A BILL TO AMEND THE AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF Statement of— CONTENTS Clay, Albert G., president, Burley Auction Warehouse Association, Corpening, Wayne, special assistant for farm affairs to the Governor Daniels, Elmer R., Nash County Farm Bureau, Spring Hope, N.C... Ford, Tyler, general manager, Maryland Tobacco Cooperative, Graham, Harry L., legislative representative, National Grange_ Gregory, John M. M., Jr., president, American Leaf Organization of the Imperial Tobacco Co. of Great Britain and Ireland, Ltd., Hicks, Carl T., president, Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabili- Lanier, William L., president, Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, Mangum, B. C., president, North Carolina Farm Bureau, Rougemont, Moore, S. T., Jr., chairman, Flue-Cured Tobacco Committee, Virginia Farm Bureau, South Hills, Va... Murphy, Hon. Charles S., Under Secretary of Agriculture- Palmer, John D., chairman, Tobacco Acreage-Poundage Legislative Royster, F. S., managing director, Bright Belt Warehouse Association, Seawell, Malcolm B., executive secretary and general counsel, Leaf Strickland, A. B., Loris, S.C__ Touissant, William D., North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C.. Watson, George B., Nash County Farm Bureau, Whitakers, N.C., also representing Farmers Warehouse and the North Carolina Society of Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers---- Weeks, L. T., general manager, Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Report on S. 821 from the Department of Agriculture- Letter to Secretary Freeman from Sir Alexander Maxwell, chairman, Tobacco Advisory Committee, London. -- Letter to Secretary Freeman from Taiji Sakata, president, the Japan Step-by-step procedure under the proposed acreage-poundage pro- Supplemental statements filed by the Department of Agriculture on: Trend in yields of burley tobacco.. Size of burley tobacco farm allotments_ Comparison of present law with S. 821. Supplemental statement filed by the Department of Agriculture on effect of maximum and minimum limits on farm yields_ Cablegrams and letters to Mr. Palmer from foreign tobacco com- Domestic supplies, disappearance, season average price, and Across-State-line movement of tobacco- Acreage, yield per acre, production, price per pound, and crop Distribution of 1962 tobacco allotments by size groups- Tobacco acreage allotted by kinds and by States.. 130 Federal, State, and local tax revenues from tobacco products.. Statement of Hon. Dan K. Moore, Governor of North Carolina.... James A. Graham, State Commissioner of Agriculture, Raleigh, Supplemental statement on authority under present law for establish- ACREAGE-POUNDAGE MARKETING QUOTAS FOR TOBACCO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1965 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m. in room 318, Old Senate Office Building, Senator B. Everett Jordan presiding. Present: Senators Jordan (presiding), Ellender (chairman of the full committee), Talmadge, McCarthy, Cooper, and Miller. Also present: Senator Ervin and Representative Bonner. Senator JORDAN. Gentlemen, the subcommittee will come to order. I would like to read an opening statement at this time. We are here today to receive testimony on S. 821, a bill introduced by Senator Ervin and me which would permit farmers to establish a system of acreage-poundage controls for Flue cured and other types of tobacco. Since the bill was introduced, I have had a number of communications about various provisions in it, and during the hearings I hope that farmers and others will give the committee the benefit of their thinking about the various provisions of the bill as well as the total effect of the bill. I am convinced that all of us need to move as rapidly as possible in setting up the machinery under which farmers themselves can vote and make a decision about acreage-poundage controls. I am sure that all tobacco growers realize that we now have nearly 1 billion pounds of surplus tobacco on hand and we must take measures which will prevent the destruction of the tobacco program in the future. I am sure that I speak for all members of the committee when I say we solicit any and all views on this subject as we feel this is a time when the tobacco program must have the very best thought and consideration we can give it. We do not have a great many copies of this bill nor the Department report. I am going to ask that they be inserted in the record at this point, and we will get more printed as quickly as we can. (S. 821 and the Department of Agriculture report on the bill are as follows:) 1 |