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The Chairman. They are the two things — one, acreage allotments 

 and the other marketing quotas. Do you use acreage allotments 

 on some of the basic commodities? It is suggested to me you did 

 on corn. 



Secretary Brannan. Today we do not. Those are the only two 

 com.m.odities that have voted either acreage allotments or marketing 

 quotas. 



Mr. Pace. I am sorry about the confusion. Of course, there does 

 not have to be any vote on acreage allotments. The Department 

 has used acreage allotments; it contemplates using acreage allotments 

 in the future, and your testim.on_v this morning indicates you con- 

 template using goals. The producers do not have to vote, and, 

 unfortunately, under the Aiken bill, you can submit marketing quotas 

 to the producers of a comm.odity; they can vote against it 100 percent, 

 and still you can put acreage controls into effect. 



Secretary Brannan. Yes; but you can do nothing about it. You 

 can put them into effect, but what can you do about it? 



Mr. Pace. You can penalize them to the extent of denying the 

 producers the benefit of the support price and denying them the 

 benefit of ACP payments. 



Secretary Brannan. That is what we are doing; with the exception 

 of ACP payments, that is what we do now on potatoes, and we do not 

 get any^vhere. 



Mr. Pace. That is exactly the point I am making. 



Secretary Brannan. Then we are in agreement. 



Mr. Pace. That is exactly the point 1 am making — that it should 

 not be part of your program to use support prices when they are 

 supported by either goals or merely allotments. 



Secretary Brannan. Mr. Pace, would you indicate to me where 

 I said that is exactly what we are going to do? 



Mr. Pace. No, sir; except you said during the day that on nonbasic 

 commodities you might use goals. 



Secretary Brannan. All right. I did not say "Goals only." 



Mr. Pace. Oh, no. 



Secretary Brannan. I might use any combination of those. 

 Honestly, Mr. Pace, all we are trying to do is to run an effective 

 and efficient program, and all we are trying to recommend is an 

 effective and efficient program. And whatever it takes to get an 

 effective and efficient operation induced by support payments is the 

 thing we are after. 



Mr. Pace. Let me put it this way: Do you recognize, Mr. Secretary, 

 that neither in acreage allotments merely nor goals merely do you 

 maintain any effective control over the production of that com- 

 modity? 



Secretary Brannan. Of course. We have been complaining about 

 it for 3 years. 



Mr. Hope. Of course, you have had a provision for acreage allot- 

 ments almost ever since the beginning of the farm program in 1933. 

 In the act of 1933, there was a provision for acreage allotments, 

 but no provision for marketing quotas. In the 1938 act, there is a 

 provision both for acreage allotments and marketing quotas on the 

 basic commodities. 



Mr. Pace. There is no such thing as acreage allotments on cotton. 



Secretary Brannan. He did not say that. 



