Statement of-Continued Edmondson, Hon. J. Howard, Governor of the State of Oklahoma... merce. Izaak Walton League of America. Page 417 466 480 514 372 Johnson, Hon. Byron L., a Representative in Congress from the 319 505 Juers, Linley, director, dairy section, Wisconsin Council of Agricultural Cooperative_ 408 Kastenmeier, Hon. Robert W., a Representative in Congress from the 329 Livingston, David W., Washington, Iowa. 349 Lloyd, Thomas J., and Patrick E. Gorman, president and secretarytreasurer, respectively, of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen (AFL-CIO) _ _ _ 528 Loveless, Hon. Herschel C., Governor of the State of Iowa 418 McGee, Hon. Gale W., a U.S. Senator from the State of Wyoming- 501 483 306 Metcalf, Hon. Lee, a Representative in Congress from the State of Miller, Hon. Clem, a Representative in Congress from the First Con- Moulder, Hon. Morgan M., a Representative in Congress from the 11th National Milk Producers Federation, by E. M. Norton, secretary. Nelson, Hon. Gaylord A., Governor of Wisconsin, presented by Robert G. Lewis, agricultural coordinator, executive staff of Governor Nelson_. 543 504 376, 453 Newsom, Herschel D., master, the National Grange Paul, Charles, turkeyman, and member, California State Board of 335 175 290 291, 297 488 533 305 Pfost, Hon. Gracie, a Representative in Congress from the First Congressional District of the State of Idaho.. 286 Potofsky, Jacob S., general president, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America___. 530 Rockwell, John, State representative, Henry County, Mount Fleasant, Iowa.. Randall, Hon. William J., a Representative in Congress from the 334 333 510 Rohde, Gilbert C., president, Wisconsin Farmers Union.. 405 317 211 Smith, Hon. Neal, a Representative in Congress from the Fifth Congressional District of the State of Iowa__ 308 Ullman, Hon. Al, a Representative in Congress from the Second Congressional District of the State of Oregon_ 314 Williams, Hon. G. Mennen, Governor of the State of Michigan 422 330 Additional data submitted to the committee by Affeldt, Paul: Farm costs on eastern Wisconsin dairy farms, 1947-58 (table) - U.S. average prices paid by farmers, 1947-59 (table) - Calculations necessary to determine price support standard, Resolution against compensatory payments, December 1948-- Table 2.-Farm operators' income, 1929-59 Page 415 414 414 234 232 225 226 Table 3.-Shifts in acreage of individual grains between 1958 and 226 Cooley, Hon. Harold D.: Brown, Edmund G., Governor of California, Sacramento, Calif., 532 National Canners Association, Washington, D.C., letter with 532 New Orleans Cotton Exchange, Morris Wolf, president, New 269 Rosellini, Albert D., Governor, State of Washington, Olympia, 531 Department of Agriculture: Proposed bill-A bill to provide a more effective program for 155 Appendix I-Man-hours of farmwork 156 Appendix I-A: Man-hours of labor used for farmwork, United States, 157 Net income from farming per man-hour of farmwork, United 157 Appendix II. 157 Appendix II-A. 158 Appendix III-Rural developments in Madison County, Ark. 158 159 Market structure, economic power, and agricultural policy: a proposal for forward production management, by Robert L. 319 Johnson, Glenn (Penny): A new concept of agriculture... 508 Jones, Hon. Paul C.: Missouri Farmers Association, Inc., Columbia, Mo., letter of 503 Livingston, David W.: Corn in storage by counties in Iowa, October 1, 1959, also 1958 370 Example of 100-acre farm under Hoeven bill, H.R. 10672. 363 366 The soil bank withdrawal plan_. 367 Miller, Hon. Clem: California Egg Producers Association, Sebastopol, Calif., tele- 308 Excerpts from statement of Samuel R. Geddes, chairman, assem- 300 Excerpts from statement of William J. Kuhrt, assistant director 297 Additional data submitted to the committee by-Continued Miller, Hon. Clem-Continued Petaluma Cooperative Hatchery, Petaluma, Calif., telegram of Page 308 Position of California farm research and legislative committee, 303 Resolution of the California State Board of Agriculture, re inte- 304 Turkey Board, Fresno, Calif., telegram of April 3, 1960... National Farmers Union: 305 Baker, John A., director, Washington, D.C., letter of March 1, 203 International Federation of Agricultural Producers, 11th general Resolution No. 1. International food and farm policy. Report on the dairy problem and national price support program Williams, Hon. G. Mennen: 180 181 181 182 455 Changes in farming 1947–57, as shown by Michigan farm ac- 425 Table 1. All account farms in Michigan 428 Table 2.-Area 1: Financial summary, crop and livestock 432 Table 3.-Area 2: Financial summary, crop and livestock 433 Table 4.-Areas 3 and 11: Financial summary, crop and live- 434 Table 5.--Area 4: Financial summary, crop and livestock 435 Table 6.--Area 5: Financial summary, crop and livestock 436 Table 7.-Areas 6 and 7: Financial summary, crop and 437 Table 8.-Area 8: Financial summary, crop and livestock 438 Table 9.-Areas 9, 12, and 14: Financial summary, crop Michigan farm business report for 1958. 439 440 Table 11.-Areas 15, 16, and 17: Financial summary, crop 441 442 Table 1.-Earnings on farm accounting farms in Michigan, 442 Table 2.-Percentage and distribution of labor incomes, 443 Table 3.-Comparison of gross income, expenses, and labor 444 445 Table 5.-Comparison of size of farm and amount of work, 447 448 Table 7.-Kinds of crops, percentage of tillable land in differ- 449 450 451 GENERAL FARM LEGISLATION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room 1310, New House Office Building, Hon. Harold D. Cooley (chairman) presiding. Present: Representatives Cooley (chairman), Poage, Grant, Gathings, McMillan, Abernethy, Albert, Jones, Johnson of Wisconsin, Bass, Jennings, Matthews, McGovern, Coad, Breeding, Stubblefield, McSween, Hogan, Levering, Hoeven, Dague, Belcher, McIntire, Dixon, Smith, Teague of California, Short, Mrs. May, Pirnie, Latta. Also present: Representatives Neal, Smith of Iowa, and Leslie Arends of Illinois. Christine S. Gallagher and Hyde H. Murray, assistant clerk. (The bills are as follows:) [H.R. 10355, 86th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To reduce the cost to the United States Treasury of farm price and income stabilization programs, to provide means by which producers may balance supply with demand at a fair price, to reduce the volume and costs of maintaining Commodity Credit Corporation stocks, to provide for distribution to needy people and public institutions of additional needed high protein foods, to preserve and improve the status of the family farm through greater bargaining power, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Family Farm Income Act of 1960", and it is declared to be the policy of the Congress to promote, foster, and perpetuate the family system of agriculture against all forms of collectivization of farming whatsoever, in full recognition that the system of independent family farms was the beginning and foundation of free enterprise in America, that it now includes more individual capitalists than all the rest of the national economy, that it holds for the future the greatest promise of security and abundance of food and fiber and that it is an ever-present source of strength for democratic processes and the American ideal. TITLE I-BALANCING SUPPLY WITH DEMAND AT A FAIR PRICE PART I-NATIONWIDE MARKETING ORDERS SEC. 101. (a) The Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, is amended as follows: (1) Subsection 8c (2) is amended to read as follows: "COMMODITIES TO WHICH APPLICABLE "(2) Orders issued pursuant to this section shall be applicable only to the following agricultural commodities and the products thereof, or to any regional, or market classification of any such commodity or product: Milk, fruits (including filberts, almonds, pecans, and walnuts), tobacco, vegetables, soybeans, other field and seed crops, Irish potatoes, mint, onions, farm forestry products, cattle, hogs, lambs, sheep, milkfat in cream, eggs, chickens, turkeys, hops, honey-bees, and naval stores as included in the Naval Stores Act and standards established thereunder (including refined or partially refined oleoresin).” (2) Section 8c (3) is amended to read as follows: "NOTICE AND HEARING "(3) The Secretary shall, upon request of producers, give due notice of, and an opportunity for a hearing on, any proposed marketing order for any agricultural commodity named in subsection (2) and prior to the hearing the Secretary shall provide needed technical advisory assistance to enable such producers to prepare and process their briefs for the hearing. The formulation of the terms of any such order for proposal to the Secretary or the carrying out of any provisions of this section shall not be in violation of any of the antitrust laws of the United States and shall be deemed lawful." (3) Subsection 8c (7) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(E) Establishing or providing for the establishment of standards governing the negotiation of contractual agreements with existing firms engaged in marketing or processing of any agricultural commodity listed in section 8c (2), concerning stipulation of prices, volume, shipping dates, transportation carrier, grades, and size, both previous to and during marketing season, and governing the terms of sale of any agricultural commodity in connection with negotiating such contractual agreements, and providing that the expense of administering such order be paid from funds collected pursuant to the marketing order." (4) Section 8c (11) is amended to read as follows: "NATIONAL APPLICATION “(11) (A) Any order issued under this section may be made applicable to any or all production or marketing areas of any commodity or product thereof, as the Secretary finds practicable, consistent with carrying out the declared policy of the Act, as amended. "(B) If one order is issued for all production or marketing areas or more than one production or marketing area, as defined by the Secretary in such order, of any commodity or product, the Secretary shall provide, insofar as practicable, representation for each such defined production or marketing area if a committee is appointed, pursuant to subsection (7) of this section, as his agency to administer the order. "(C) Whenever more than 50 per centum of the estimated total annual quantity handled in the United States of any commodity is regulated by one or more orders and the agencies administering orders covering more than two-thirds of the regulated quantities of the commodity so proposed and recommended, the Secretary shall give due notice of and an opportunity for a hearing upon a proposed order applicable to the entire United States or all production or marketing areas. If, after such hearing the Secretary finds, in addition to the other findings and determinations required under this section, that such a comprehensive order for the commodity is practicable, he shall issue such an order. "(D) All orders issued under this section which are applicable to the same commodity or product thereof shall, insofar as practicable, prescribe such different terms, applicable to different production areas and marketing areas, as the Secretary finds necessary to give due recognition to the differences in production and marketing of such commodity or product in such areas." (5) Section Se is amended by inserting after the word "tomatoes" the following: "field and seed crops, mint, onions, farm forestry products, cattle, hogs, lambs, sheep, milkfat in cream, eggs, chickens, turkeys,". (6) By adding at the end thereof the following new section: "TERMINATION OF ACT "SEC. 23. The provisions of this Act shall terminate on December 31, 1965.” SEC. 102. Within ninety days following the effective date of any marketing order established for nationwide operation for any commodity which contains any of the provisions referred to in paragraphs (A) or (B) of subsection (5) or in paragraph (A), (B), or (C) of subsection (6) of section 8c the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, the Secretary of Agriculture shall declare part II of this title inoperative with respect to such commodity. |