100 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



of corn wliich, wlion added to tliat produced in the United States out- 

 side the commercial corn-producing area and imported, will make avail- 

 able a supply for the marketing year beginning in the calendar year in 

 which the crop is produced equal to the reserve supply level. Section 

 328 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended by sec- 

 tion 207 of the Agricultural Act of 1948. 



"Commercial corn-producing area" is defined to include all counties 

 in which the average production of corn, excluding corn used as silage, 

 during the 10 preceding calendar yeai's, after adjustment for abnormal 

 weather conditions, is 450 l^uslu^ls or more per fann and 4 bushels or 

 more for each acre of farm land in the county. 



Mr. Pace. Let me interrupt you: If you are going to include silage 

 as a part of the marketing quota, why do you not include silage in 

 determining whether or not a county qualifies in the commercial area? 



Mr. W \LKEK. 1 do not know the specific reasons for the elimination 

 of silage iu determining the commercial corn-producing area. How- 

 ever, it is believed that it is eliminated in determining the commercial 

 area because that is the area where the corn is produced that moves 

 into the channels ot trade; therefore in measuring out and determining 

 those counties to be in the commercial area the ciuantity of corn 

 produced and liarvested as gi'ain will have to be used as the basis. 



Continuing A\ith the statement: "Reserve supply level" is defined 

 as a "normal year's domestic consumption and exports," compu.ted 

 on the basis of the average domestic consumption and exports during 

 the preceding 10 marketing yeai's, adjusted for current trends, plus 

 10 percent of such consumption and exports. 



Mr. HoEVEN. Mr. Walker, permit me to go back to the first para- 

 graph defining the commercial corn-producing area wherein it is 

 stated: "after adjustment for abnornuil weather conditions, is 450 

 bushels or more per farm and 4 bushels or more for each acre of farm 

 land in the county." 



Mr. Walker. Yes; for each acre of farm land. 



Mr. Hoeven. Now, is that not ridiculously low" when you considei- 

 the corn-producing States? For instance, take the production figure 

 for last year where the figures indicate that farmers in the Middle 

 West produced as high as 100 bushels per acre. This would mean 

 from 4,000 to 6,000 bushels of corn, on many farms. Yet here we 

 have a formula which limits it to 450 bushels or more ]ier farm and 

 4 bushels or more for each acre of farm land in the county. This is 

 completely out of line with what is actually being pioduced in the corn 

 producing area, is it not? 



Mr. W^.VLKER. The quantity of production per farm and per acre of 

 farm land provided by law as the basis for determining the commercial 

 corn area, has been under considerable discussion, but every time an 

 attempt is made to modify that formula we do not wind up with a 

 contiguous area. If you have the folder before you, you will note that 

 the formula given indicates a more or less contiguous area [indicating]. 



Mr. Hoeven. Yes. 



Mr. Walker. Coimties outside of that area will be bj-ougiit into 

 the area if and when they meet that requirement. 



Mr. Hoeven. The point I am making is this: It is not realistic, so 

 far as the State of Iowa is concerned. T doubt whether any section 

 in Iowa has the kind of limited production you indicate her(\ 



