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Secretary Brannan. Mr. Chairman, if you will forgive me I do 

 have to appear before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, 

 which is of some concern to us. 



Mr. Andresen. Mr. Chairman, may 1 get one question cleared 

 up? I vielded to Mr. Hope, but I wanted to complete the thought 

 I had. ^ ■ 



When marketing quotas and acreage allotments are in operation, 

 as I understood you the entire corp of tobacco, corn and peanuts and 

 any other crop would come under a support-loan program and not 

 under the 1,800 units unless the producer produced less than 1,800 

 units. Do I make myself clear? 



Secretary Brannan. That is right, sir. 



Mr. Andresen. Am I correct in that understanding? A farmer 

 who has marketing quotas on cotton of 1,000 bales and complies with 

 his acreage allotment and his marketing quota can put the entire 

 thousand bales under the loan program? 



Secretary Brannan. That is right. 



Mr. Andresen. That really takes the cotton people or any other 

 people who come under the marketing quotas out from under the 

 general program which you are recommending to the committee. 



Secretary Brannan. It is the qualification to the application of the 

 limitation on price supports. 



Mr. Andresen. Was this interpretation agreed on this morning, or 

 did 1 imderstand you to say that you had it prepared and you deleted 

 it from your presentation to the committee. 



Secretary Brannan. We had a discussion of it which came out in 

 that general area. 



Air. Andresen. But it was not included in your original recom- 

 mendation, that these basic commodities under marketing quotas and 

 acreage allotments should come under the general program here? 



Secretary Brannan. No, it is not in the statement. 



Mr. Andresen. But now you have agreed that that is what it is 

 going to be and that is a part of your recommendation? 



Secretary Brannan. That is one of the thoughts about how it 

 could operate which I am suggesting to the committee for considera- 

 tion. I suggested, if I may say so, Mr. Chairman, for the purpose of 

 pointing out to the committee that there is a real conflict between the 

 principle of fixing acreage limitations and marketing quotas on crops 

 from the standpoint that this really is an expression of the national 

 need for those commodities on the one hand and the limitation of 

 price supports on the other. If there are some other ways of apply- 

 ing it, we certainly are not wedded to any particular suggestion. 



Mr. Andresen. It is quite apparent to me that the producers of 

 cotton and peanuts and tobacco did not want to come in under the 

 general program, so this modification has been agreed to. 



The Chairman. Mr. Secretary, could you be with us Thursday 

 morning? 



Secretary Brannan. I am supposed to be in St. Louis. 



The Chairman. We will adjourn, subject to call of the Chair. 



(Whereupon, at 11a. m., the committee was adjourned, subject to 

 the call of th^ Chair.) 



