Acreage-poundage Tobacco Allotments: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session on S. 1219U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 - 311 pages |
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Page 2 - That section 328 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following : "Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the acreage allotment for corn for any calendar year beginning with 1957 shall not be less than fifty-one million acres.
Page 273 - ... percent but parity is supposed to take care of our income if our income is cut 30 percent, the 90 percent of parity is still going to leave us 30 percent short. Now, this is just a suggestion, just an idea, that parity will not take care of a 35-percent reduction of the farmer's income in Lenoir County. One other thing that I would like to mention is that we are under a strain. I tried to plant tobacco where it will make the most, I planted tobacco this year that if it rains too much it will...
Page 2 - ... of the Act of farmers engaged in the production of the crop of such tobacco harvested immediately prior to the holding of the referendum to determine whether such farmers are in favor of or opposed to such quotas for the 3year period. If more than one-third of the farmers voting oppose such quotas, the quotas so proclaimed for the 3-year period shall not be in effect: Provided, That such referendum result shall not preclude...
Page 4 - ... such farm and kind of tobacco shall be reduced, except that such reduction for any such farm shall not be made if it is established to the satisfaction of the county and State committees...
Page 208 - SCOTT, Chairman: I appreciate your invitation to sit with you on April 1 at the Petersburg hearings on your bill, S. 1219. My own subcommittee hearings on the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill will begin on Monday and I regret that I shall be unable to attend the hearings at Petersburg. However, I want you to know that I appreciate the invitation and am glad to know that our tobacco farmers in Virginia are being given an opportunity to express their desires on the proposed legislation. With...
Page 10 - Does that make it clearer why the demand is increasing for the heavier and more aromatic, more flavorful tobaccos for filter-tip cigarettes ? Now, to go back to this subject of yields again for a minute — unfortunately many of the practices followed such as close spacing and so forth that go into increased yields per acre, also go into producing more of the light, thin neutral tobacco for which demand is cut in half and less of your heavier bodied tobacco which is needed.
Page 252 - This is an issue which faces us and which goes into the livelihood of every farmer throughout this area because we all produce tobacco.
Page 253 - It does not make sense to produce as we have been producing for the last year or two and stocking up stocks that may be undesirable — or maybe they are all right, maybe we just have a surplus — but we realistically must get back and produce that which we can sell and that which the trade wants, the desirable products of tobacco. I think this program is sound. We grow acres, but we sell pounds, pounds of tobacco is what is used in making cigarettes and, after all, "pounds" is in the final analysis...