COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

HAROLD D. COOLEY, North Carolina, Chairman W. R. POAGE, Texas, Vice Chairman

CONTENTS

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Statement of-

Burkhead, Charles, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department

of Agriculture...

Cummings, Arthur M.; accompanied by William N. Starkey, of the

Grain Division, Foreign Agricultural Service; Horace J. Davis,

Program Development Division; and Arthur Mead, Program

Operation Division, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department

of Agriculture...

Davis, Howard P., Food Distribution Division, Agricultural Marketing
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture..

Dyess, James B., wheat specialist, Grain Division, Commodity

Stabilization Service; accompanied by Robert Post, Agricultural

Economist, Agricultural Marketing Service; and Roland Ö. Stetzer,

Agricultural Economist, Price Division, Commodity Stabilization

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture_

Luker, Cyril, assistant to Administrator, Soil Conservation Service;

accompanied by Val W. Silkett, director, Farm and Ranch Divi-

sion; and W. J. Sallee, Conservation Reserve Soil Bank, U.S.

Department of Agriculture..

Pulvermacher, Clifford G., Assistant Administrator, Commodity

Stabilization Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Robey, H. Stewart, Grain Division, Commodity Stabilization Service,

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Sallee, William J., Soil Bank Division, Commodity Stabilization

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture-

Satterfield, J. A., Commodity Stabilization Service; accompanied by
James B. Dyess, Commodity Stabilization Service, and Dr. Louis
P. Reitz, Agricultural Research Service..

Shellenberger, Dr. J. A., Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station,

Kansas State College-

Additional data submitted to the subcommittee by-

Breeding, Hon. J. Floyd:

John W. Baughman Farms Co., Liberal, Kans., letter with report,

dated March 4, 1959.

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Department of Agriculture:

Acreage seeded for the production of grain in the noncommercial

wheat States (table)..

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Acreage, yield per acre, and production in specific countries, year
of harvest, average 1950-54, annual 1956-58 (table)--
Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture;
Subchapter A-General Regulations and Policies--

All Spring, Durum, and other: Acreage, yield, and production,
United States, 1935-58 (table) -

All wheat and winter wheat: Acreage, yield, and production,
United States, 1935-59 (table).

Average price per bushel received by farmers, parity price, and
price of No. 2 Hard Winter at Kansas City, 1939-58 (table) -
Carryover of wheat by classes (chart).

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78

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Comparison of overplanting of 1958 wheat acreage allotments in
the Great Plains area and the Corn Belt area (table) - -
Cost of surplus foods donated for domestic and foreign use fiscal
year 1958 and estimated first half fiscal year 1959.
Cropland in conservation reserve (chart) _ _
CCC-owned stocks (including stocks sold but not delivered),
December 31, 1958, estimated by classes (table).

CCC sales or other disposition, July-December 1958 (table) –