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transposablo feed grain — -and there are none which are exactly trans- 

 posable in their feed quahty with corn — then the over-all purpose of 

 producing corn for feeding livestock will have been partially defeated. 



Mr. Pace. I can see the reasons, and my last comment is that so 

 far as I know this is the first time we would move out into the field of 

 controlling the production on a farm without the producer having any 

 voice in determining whether or not it should be done. 



Secretary Brannan. There is nothing in here that says the producer 

 might have no voice in it. This, as I see it, is another mechanical 

 administrative problem which should be worked out if we attempt to 

 go in that direction. 



Mr. Pace. One more question: What would be the situation if the 

 commercial corn producers voted quotas and the producers of oats or 

 grain sorghums had a voice and declined to go to acreage controls 

 themselves? Then you would be confronted with exactly the situa- 

 tion we have spoken of. 



Secretary Brannan. That is right, if that is the only alternative, 

 the only available device for getting the administrative objective 

 accomplished. You might relate the two somehow. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Hope. 



Mr. Hope. Mr. Secretary, if I understood the chairman's question 

 correctly, he assumed that if there are marketing quotas in a commer- 

 cial area on corn the Secretary will impose the same restrictions upon 

 producers in the noncommercial corn-producing areas. Does that 

 necessarily follow? 



Secretary Brannan. No; I did not so undorstand it, Mr. Congress- 

 man. I w^as not addressing myself to any particular kind of a situa- 

 tion or proposal. 



Mr. Hope. Let me ask the chairman if that was not the assumption 

 in his question, that the same restrictions would be applied in the 

 noncommercial area as were applied in the commercial area. 



Mr. Pace. My question was predicted on the thought that it could 

 be, not that it would necessarily be everj^ year. The suggestion is 

 contained in the Secretary's statement here. 



Mr. Andresen. Will the gentleman yield? 



Secretary Brannan. It is question 5 on page 5. 



Mr. Pace. Pie says here, "Because of administrative difficulties 

 that would be involved in imposing marketing quotas on feed grains 

 other than corn, consideration may be given to bringing these feed 

 grains under acreage allotments rather than marketing quotas, when 

 marketing quotas are in effect for corn." 



Mr. Hope. There he was" speaking particularly about the dift'erent 

 methods of handling the situation in the commercial corn area, and 

 the noncommercial corn area. Aly understanding of the chairman's 

 question was that it assumed that he would have the same controls in 

 both areas. 



I think you could, under the law, impose the same controls in the 

 noncommercial corn areas, but my recollection is that that was not 

 done at the time we previously had acreage allotments on corn. Of 

 course, we have never had marketing quotas. My recollection is 

 that you did not impose these allotments on corn, as such, in the non- 

 commercial area. I would like to be advised on that. 



Secretary Brannan. I think you are correct, Mr. Hope. The 

 effort was to induce the shift into nonsoil-depleting crops. I do not 



