GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 203 



In the fourth paragraph on page 25, I say — 



Eligibility of a producer for participation in the benefits of any price-support 

 program should be conditioned upon compliance with or adoption of applicable 

 programs of production adjustment, marketing quotas or agreements, and the 

 carrying out of reasonable conservation practice requirements. 



That is one place. 



Another place that I believe bears directly on it would be found on 

 page 23, in the second part of the first full paragraph under "conditions 

 and limitations." I say — • 



I do not believe that full benefits, if any, should be extended to producers who 

 operate without regard to the welfare of the general public or their fellow farmers. 



Mr. Pace. I think we can clear that up very quickly. 



Secretary Brannan. May I say that that same sentiment is ex- 

 pressed two or three times through my statement in other parts. 



Mr. Pace. Then it would be your recommendation that in order to 

 enjoy the support-price program, whether it is 100 percent or not 

 he would have to comply with his existing quotas, his acreage controls, 

 and his marketing practices? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. If I understood correctly, the 

 opponents — and I am not including you among them — have pointed 

 out that I have asked for too much control. I think that is erroneous, 

 too, sir, but it was subject to the other interpretation. 



Mr. Pace. Let me say that I am in hearty accord with your 

 present recommendation that certainly if you are going to have 

 marketing quotas, to enjoy the support level they should conform 

 with their acreage allotments. 



Mr. Hope. Will you yield to me for a comment? 



Mr. Pace. Yes. 



Mr. Hope. I recall the Secretary making the statement in response 

 to the question of Senator Young, but I interpreted it to mean that 

 it would apply to a situation where controls were not in order, where 

 you did not have a siu-plus which would require the imposition of 

 acreage allotments on marketing quotas. 



Mr. Pace. He has cleared it up, anyway. 



Mr. Hope. You would not say that the mere fact that acreage 

 allotments or marketing quotas were not in order on the basis of 

 the supply situation would be no reason for giving a farmer less 

 than the full support price? 



Secretary Brannan. Certainly not. As a matter of fact, that is 

 how we used price supports all during the war. We used them as 

 production inducements. We did not put limitations on them. 

 We were using them as production inducements. 



I can see that under this program we would still be using price sup- 

 ports as production inducements. 



I think that is the clear intent of moving livestock into reasonably 

 high levels of support and secondly, moving them into a preferred 

 class in order to induce production there. 



Mr. Pace. We are fully agreed on that, but you can see how I 

 would be disturbed by your answer to Senator Young. 



Mr. Secretary, there is one other matter I want to take up with 

 you, and that is the fornmla. You propose to take, instead of the 

 comparable purchasing power principle in the current parity definition, 

 the cash receipts from farm sales for a year. You divide that by 

 the purchasing power for that year and set up a figure to represent 



