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he would receive support prices would be about 13^000 or 14,000- 

 bushels. 



Secretary Brannan. That is right. 



Senator Young. He would receive no support above that level? 



Secretary Brannan. That is the purport of the recommendations,, 

 but in an area of scarcity you would not be relying upon the price 

 support anyhow, because the price would be well above the support 

 level. 



Let us say we have a drought or a low wheat production. Nobody 

 will be relying on price supports for their wheat. 



Senator Young. I would not say exactly that. You know I have 

 been fussing about this rye situation. There is a low production of 

 rye, at the present time. Rye is below the levels of any other crop 

 at the present time. 



Secretary Brannan. Our trouble with rye is the Canadian import 

 problem. 



Senator Thomas. Senator Hickenlooper? 



wSenator Hickenlooper. I have no questions at this time, Mr.- 

 Chahman. 



Chairman Thomas. I believe Senator Anderson wanted to make a 

 suggestion. 



Senator Anderson. In view of what Mr. Young has just asked and 

 in view of this 1,800 units, let us take a cotton producer who produces- 

 180 bales of cotton. That is the limit on which he can get price sup- 

 port. Suppose you have a cotton acreage limitation program in 

 effect and he has a larger acreage and he actually lives up to the limi- 

 tations and produces 250 bales of cotton. He still is limited in price 

 support to the 180 bales, I understand. 



Would he be so limited, even though he had stayed within the quota? 



Secretary Brannan. In my opinion, we would have to make adjust- 

 ments for that kind of a situation. In short, we have not spelled this 

 out in its very last detail. 



I might confess to you that we had a sentence in there which referred 

 to the possibility of that and the possibility of the need for making' 

 adjustments in that kind of a situation. The statement was very 

 long, to begin with, and we cut out a lot of paragraphs. I suspect you 

 will say we should have cut out some more. 



Senator Anderson. I recognize the problem you had, but I thoughts 

 Senator Young raised a rather important question. 



If we had a wheat-acreage program and there was a limitation 

 upon wheat, probably because of excess production, and wheat prices 

 were going down, and yet a large wheat farmer stayed absolutely 

 within his quotas, under this proposal he would not be entitled to price- 

 support on anything over 14,000 bushels. 



Secretary Brannan. I think if we took the language literally that^ 

 would be right. 



Senator Anderson. And I think he ought to have some other con-- 

 siderations. 



Secretary Brannan. I agree w'th you. 



Chairman Thomas. Senator Thye? 



Senator Thye. There are many questions that will have to be- 

 asked, but I feel at this particular time, with all of us assembled, both 

 from the Senate and the House, that I will just reserve any of my 

 questions until such time as we have an opportunit}^ to sit within our 

 own committee. 



