RICE ACREAGE ALLOTMENT 94910 HEARING BEFORE THE 4- SEP 16 SUBCOMMITTEE ON RICCopy1957 OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 4709 JULY 1, 1957 Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture Serial DD UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1957 CONTENTS H. R. 4709. A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, with respect to rice acreage allotment history--. Satterfield, J. A., Assistant Chief, Program Analysis Branch, Grain Division, Commodity Stabilization Service, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture; accompanied by Edwin F. Rollins, Rice Acre- age Allotment Section, Grain Division, Commodity Stabilization Service, United States Department of Agriculture.. RICE ACREAGE ALLOTMENT MONDAY, JULY 1, 1957 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMODITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON RICE OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10: 10 a. m., in Room 1308, New House Office Building, Hon. Clark W. Thompson (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Thompson, Gathings, Krueger, and Hagen. Also present: Mabel C. Downey, clerk. Mr. THOMPSON. The committee will be in order. The committee has convened to consider the Bill H. R. 4709 by myself. (H. R. 4709 is as follows:) [H. R. 4709, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, with respect to rice acreage allotment history Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 353 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, be amended (1) by inserting in the first sentence thereof the words "in the State" immediately following the words "persons who have produced rice", (2) by inserting in the second sentence thereof the words "in the State" immediately following the words "persons who will produce rice” and immediately following the words “but who have not produced rice", and (3) by adding at the end of subsection (b) a new sentence reading as follows: "The planting of rice in 1957 or any subsequent year on a farm for which no rice acreage allotment was established shall not make the farm eligible for an allotment as an old farm or the producers on the farm eligible for allotments as old producers under this section: Provided, however, That by reason of such planting the farm or the producers, as the case may be, shall not be considered as ineligible for a new farm allotment or new producer allotment, as the case may be, under the preceding sentence of this subsection." Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. Satterfield of the Department is present to explain and justify the bill from the standpoint of the Department. Will you proceed, Mr. Satterfield. |