H. R. 188. A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act to prevent Page H. R. 2139. A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to require H. R. 2433. A bill to authorize Commodity Credit Corporation to grant relief with respect to claims arising out of deliveries of eligible surplus feed grains on ineligible dates in connection with purchase orders under H. R. 2449. A bill to authorize Commodity Credit Corporation to grant relief with respect to claims arising out of deliveries of eligible surplus feed grains on ineligible dates in connection with purchase orders under H. R. 2486. A bill to authorize Commodity Credit Corporation to grant relief with respect to claims arising out of deliveries of eligible surplus feed grains on ineligible dates in connection with purchase orders under H. R. 2771. A bill to amend the Soil Bank Act so as to include grazing land in the Soil Bank Program. H. R. 3606. A bill to authorize Commodity Credit Corporation to grant relief with respect to claims arising out of deliveries of eligible surplus feed grains on ineligible dates in connection with purchase orders under 5 H. R. 5856. A bill to provide for the purchase of certain cattle to carry out H. R. 5857. A bill to amend the Soil Bank Act to permit grazing land to American Farm Bureau Federation__ Baker, John A., National Farmers Union Berger, Walter C., Administrator, Commodity Stabilization Service; accompanied by Clarence L. Miller, Associate Administrator, Com- modity Stabilization Service, United States Department of Agri- Chenoweth, Hon. J. Edgar, a representative in Congress from the Daniel, James L., representing the Texas Grain & Feed Dealers Farr, Ralph W., representing the Colorado Grain, Milling & Feed Dealers Association, Greeley, Colo., accompanied by Alvin E. Oliver, executive vice president, Grain & Feed Dealers Association Poole, Daniel A., of the Wildlife Management Institute Post, N. J., director, division of special services, National Milk Pro- Additional data submitted to the subcommittee by— Baker, John A.: Illustration of how all crops can be treated fairly in acreage Legislative Analysis Memorandum No. 56-19, March 20, 1957__ Table I. Parity price ratio and increasing farm efficiency and Table II.-Sliding scale has not reduced farm production (when Berger, Walter C.: Exhibit 1.-Summary of audits and exceptions by Audit Division, Exhibit 2. Summary of ASC State office audits and exceptions Exhibit 4.-Farmer's purchase order number for designated sur- Department of Agriculture: Page 37 29 35 38 34 35 11 12 14 15, 16, 17 Report on H. R. 2771, by Hon. True D. Morse, Acting Secretary, Ferguson, Hon. Phil: 61 Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, Inc., report of study com- 47 Table 1.-Cattle, by classes: Estimated number on farms, Janu- 50 Table 2.-Beef and veal production and consumption per capita, 51 Table 3.-Cattle and human population with selected ratios, 52 Table 4.-Total beef production, estimated beef production from United Table 5.-Selected United States beef cattle price data__ Table 7.-Estimated beef consumption at selected levels of prices Table 8.-Consumption of beef from beef herd production at 53 54 Table 10.-Estimated reduction from January 1, 1957, levels in 54 ལ་ལ་ལ་ལ་ 53 53 Table 11.-Required cattle numbers by class and increase or de- Table 12.-Estimated supply and price assuming that herds are Table 13.-Price and production estimates under selected price CCC DROUGHT FEED CLAIM-SOIL BANK TO INCLUDE GRAZING-LIVESTOCK (CATTLE PURCHASE) THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1957 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMODITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON LIVESTOCK AND Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met pursuant to notice at 10:05 a. m., in room 1310, New House Office Building, the Honorable W. R. Poage (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Poage, Albert, Jennings, Matthews, Hill and Harvey. Also present: Representatives Thompson, Hagen, Johnson, Simpson, Dague, McIntire, Belcher, and Fisher. John Heimburger, counsel. Mr. POAGE (presiding). The committee will please come to order. Some weeks ago I told some interested parties that we would hold hearings this morning on relief claims and I announced that it would be the first thing this morning. We have numerous bills to authorize the Commodity Credit Corporation to grant relief with respect to claims arising out of the delivery of certain feed grains in connection with the emergency feeds, et cetera. And I am hopeful that we can dispose of that matter without any undue length of time. And we will take those bills up at this time. There are a number of those bills. Mr. Fisher introduced one, I introduced one, and several other members have introduced similar bills. (H. R. 2486, H. R. 2433, H. R. 2449, and H. R. 3606 are as follows:) [H. R. 2486, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize Commodity Credit Corporation to grant relief with respect to claims arising out of deliveries of eligible surplus feed grains on ineligible dates in connection with purchase orders under its emergency feed program Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Commodity Credit Corporation, under such regulations as may be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, is hereby authorized to grant relief to farmers and dealers in connection with claims arising out of early and late deliveries under purchase orders for drought relief feed issued under the 1954, 1955, and 1956 emergency feed programs, by recognizing as valid those purchases and deliveries of designated surplus feed grains and approved mixed feeds, which (a) were actually purchased by the farmer from the dealer on or after the date the Secretary declared the county, where the purchase order was issued, to be eligible for assistance under the emergency feed program, and (b) are found to have been physically delivered to the farmer not later than twelve months from the date the purchase order was issued to the farmer. [H. R. 2433, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize Commodity Credit Corporation to grant relief with respect to claims arising out of deliveries of eligible surplus feed grains on ineligible dates in connection with purchase orders under its emergency feed program Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Commodity Credit Corporation, under such regulations as may be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, is hereby authorized to grant relief to farmers and dealers in connection with claims arising out of early and late deliveries under purchase orders for drought relief feed issued under the 1954, 1955, and 1956 emergency feed programs, by recognizing as valid those purchases and deliveries of designated surplus feed grains and approved mixed feeds, which (a) were actually purchased by the farmer from the dealer on or after the date the Secretary declared the county, where the purchase order was issued, to be eligible for assistance under the Emergency Feed Program, and (b) are found to have been physically delivered to the farmer not later than twelve months from the date the purchase order was issued to the farmer. [H. R. 2449, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize Commodity Credit Corporation to grant relief with respect to claims arising out of deliveries of eligible surplus feed grains on ineligible dates in connection with purchase orders under its emergency feed program Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Commodity Credit Corporation, under such regulations as may be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, is hereby authorized to grant relief to farmers and dealers in connection with claims arising out of early and late deliveries under purchase orders for drought relief feed issued under the 1954, 1955, and 1956 emergency feed programs, by recognizing as valid those purchases and deliveries of designated surplus feed grains and approved mixed feeds, which (a) were actually purchased by the farmer from the dealer on or after the date the Secretary declared the county, where the purchase order was issued, to be eligible for assistance under the emergency feed program, and (b) are found to have been physically delivered to the farmer not later than twelve months from the date the purchase order was issued to the farmer. [H. R. 3606, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize Commodity Credit Corporation to grant relief with respect to claims arising out of deliveries of eligible surplus feed grains on ineligible dates in connection with purchase orders under its emergency feed program Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Commodity Credit Corporation, under such regulations as may be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, is hereby authorized to grant relief to farmers and dealers in connection with claims arising out of early and late deliveries under purchase orders for drought relief fed issued under the 1954, 1955, and 1956 emergency feed programs, by recognizing as valid those purchases and deliveries of designated surplus feed grains and approved mixed feeds, which (a) were actually purchased by the farmer from the dealer on or after the date the Secretary declared the county, where the purchase order was issued, to be eligible for assistance under the emergency feed program, and (b) are found to have been physically delivered to the farmer not later than twelve months from the date the purchase order was issued to the farmer. Mr. POAGE. I believe that we have a representative of the Department present, Mr. Berger. I think maybe we better hear from Mr. Berger first on the situation. I understand that you have a statement. Before you start, Mr. Berger, I think it might be well if I would announce that following the consideration of these bills we will take up the bills amending the soil bank to include grazing lands: H. R. 2771, H. R. 3984, H. R. 5856, H. R. 5857. Those are for including of grazing land in the soil bank. That will be next. Next will be the amendment on the Stockyards Act. There are three bills on that: H. R. 188, H. R. 1270, and H. R. 2139. (H. R. 2771, H. R. 3984, H. R. 5856, H. R. 5857, H. R. 188, H. R. 1270, H. R. 2139 are as follows:) [H. R. 2771, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Soil Bank Act so as to include grazing land in the Soil Bank Program Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Soil Bank Act is amended (a) by inserting after the second sentence of section 103 (a) the following: "In addition to the foregoing, the Secretary is authorized and directed to formulate and carry out during the period ending June 30, 1960, an acreage reserve program for grazing lands under which farmers or ranchers will be compensated for reducing their acreage of grazing lands and making a corresponding reduction in livestock numbers below a representative period designated by the Secretary. Such program shall be formulated in such a manner as to make it possible, in conjunction with the conservation reserve program, to retire entire farming or ranching units from production. All the provisions of this title not inconsistent therewith shall apply to the grazing lands acreage reserve program." (b) by amending the first sentence of section 105 (c) to read: "The total compensation paid producers for participating in the acreage reserve program with respect to any year's program shall not exceed $780,000,000, and with respect to any commodity for any year shall not exceed the amount shown below: Wheat, $375,000,000; cotton, $300,000,000; corn in the commercial corn-producing area, $300,000,000; peanuts, $7,000,000; rice, $23,000,000; tobacco, $45,000,000; and grazing, $50,000,000." (c) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (a) (1) of section 107 and inserting: "or (where an entire farming or ranching unit is retired from production) the grazing of livestock." [H. R. 3984, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Soil Bank Act so as to include pasture lands in the soil bank program Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection 107 (a) (1) of the Soil Bank Act is amended to read as follows: "To establish and maintain for the contract period protective vegetative cover (including but not limited to grass and trees), water storage facilities, or other soil-, water-, wildlife-, or forest-conserving uses on a specifically designated acreage of land on the farm regularly used as pasture or in the production of crops (including crops such as tame hay, alfalfa and clovers, which do not require annual tillage)." SEC. 2. Section 107 of the Soil Bank Act is amended by adding the following new subsection: "(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Secretary is authorized and directed to formulate and announce a program under this subtitle B for pasture and hay lands and to enter into contracts thereunder with producers which contracts may be for minimum terms of one year, shall prohibit grazing of the contract acres except pursuant to the provisions of section 103 (a) hereof, and may treat pasture land left idle as land established and maintained in vegetative cover. The program formulated by the Secretary shall permit placing entire farming units in the conservation reserve program of the Soil Bank Act." SEC. 3. Subsection 109 (c) of the Soil Bank Act is amended to read as follows: "In carrying out the conservation reserve program, the Secretary shall not enter into contracts with producers which would require payments to producers, including the cost of materials and services, in excess of $550,000,000 in any calendar year." |