372 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



be the policy of Congress to encourage shifts in production, where necessary, 

 through incentives in the form of increases in parity above the levels herein pro- 

 vided for Government assistance. 



Sec. 102. The Secretary of Agriculture shall determine within two years fol- 

 lowing the enactment of this Act, and biennially thereafter, the relative value 

 of "family farm production units", as hereafter defined, of each agricultural 

 commodity entering into interstate commerce, and shall report to Congress such 

 adjustments in value of the units as may be deemed desirable. Pending such 

 determination, the commodity value of each family-farm production unit shall be 

 the monetary equivalent of the average parity price of one bushel of wheat in the 

 calendar year 194S. In determining values of the family-farm production units 

 to be applied to all agricultural commodities, the Secretary shall so calculate the 

 value of the unit as to insure that 5,000 units of any one of them shall have the 

 equivalent monetary value of 5,000 units of any other agricultural commodity. 

 Such determination shall be upon that median grade or variety of each product 

 which will produce the most equitable levels and relationships of support prices. 

 In the making of any such findings, all commodities shall be regarded as "basic" 

 and entitled to equality of treatment within the terms of this section. 



Sec. 103. Each head of a household in the United States the major portion of 

 whose income is derived from farming shall be entitled annually for purposes 

 of this Act to receive 100 per centum of parity upon 5,000 "family farm production 

 units", or such less total as he may produce, determined according to the formula 

 provided in section 102. 



Sec. 104. Each person who shall be entitled to receive 100 per centum of parity 

 upon that amount of production equivalent to 5,000 family-farm production 

 units, shall be entitled also to receive 80 per centum of parity upon the next 2,500 

 family-farm production units, and 60 per centum of parity upon all production 

 in excess of 7.500 family-farm production units. 



Sec. 105. The Secretary is herewith directed and authorized to submit to Con- 

 gress within 90 days following the enactment of this law a report on (1) de- 

 sirable changes in weighing of elements of the parity indices; (2) such revisions 

 as may be indicated by reason of shifts in production, and (3) such other re- 

 visions of the parity formula as may render it more equitable to all groups of 

 l)roducers of agricultural commodities. 



Sec. 106. The Secretary of Agriculture annually shall proclaim, not later 

 than August 1, in the case of fall-or-winter-planted crops, and not later than 

 January 1, in the case of spring-planted crops, national production goals for 

 all agricultural commodities, .such production goals to be determined in consulta- 

 tion with the State and county agricultural conservation program committee. 

 Such goals shall be determined only after the conduct, on a local. State and 

 National basis, of a survey of farmers' production plans and intentions to plant 

 for the coming season, at such time as shall enable farmers to be informed of 

 iiationally desirable adjustments in production of the incentives, if any, to be 

 provided to promote such adjustments. At the time of announcement of produc- 

 tion goals, the Secretary also shall determine and proclaim such increases in 

 parity support prices, above those levels described in section 103, as he may 

 determine are required in order to obtain increased production of agricultural 

 commodities which, for reasons, of national defense or of the well-being of the 

 people of the United States, it appears will not be in sufficient supply. 



Sec. 107. For the purposes of this Act, the county agricultural conservation pro- 

 gram committee shall certify to the Secretary each p9rsnn entitled to participate 

 in the program authorized by this Act, and the kinds and volume of agricultural 

 commodities produced by each such person. In all cases, the Commodity Credit 

 Corporation shall be responsible for providing 100 per centum parity or such 

 lesser percentage as is specified in section 104 for each qualified per.son by storage 

 loans or purchase agreements on storable commodities and by compensatory pay- 

 ments on all commodities. Compensatory payments shall be the difference 

 between parity prices and regional average prices computed monthly. 



TITLE II— MAINTENANCE OF CONSUMPTION 



Sec 201. It is herewith declared to be the policy of the Government of the 

 Ignited States to maintain adequate and comprehensive reserves of food, fiber, and 

 fats and oils, for the purpose of providing for the national defense and insur- 

 ing the well-being of the ppople of the Nation. To that end, the Commodity Credit 

 Corporation is herewith authorized to acquire and to store the equivalent of not 



