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proved warehouse where it could be safely kept before it was eligible 

 for a loan, a great many wheat farmers in Texas and Oklahoma and 

 Kansas, and some parts of Nebraska suffered a loss of anywhere from 

 15 to 30 cents a bushel because the cash market through which they had 

 to move their crop was that much below the Government support level 

 which they could not benefit from by reason of having storage facilities 

 unavailable to them. 



We hope that section will receive favorable consideration by the 

 Congress, and of course if it is previously acted on, then it could be 

 dropped from this draft of the bill. 



I might say, Mr. Chairman, not in connection with this bill, that I 

 understand the Senate took action to take the Commodity Credit 

 Corporation out of the Department of Agriculture and set it up under 

 an independent board. 



I am unable to understand that thinking. I do not see how the 

 Secretary of Agriculture can hope to administer the programs put 

 in his hands by the Congress of the United States when one of the 

 major implementing agencies is taken out from under his control 

 and direction entirely. 



I would hope that when that bill gets back over to the House it 

 might receive somewhat different treatment than I am informed it 

 received in the Senate. 



The last line of section 202 merely seeks to make clear what we 

 hope would be the authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to 

 m; ke loans to individual farmers for the construction of on-the-farm 

 storage. 



There are many areas and many crops which can very efficiently be 

 stored on the farm. Many farmers do not have adequate storage 

 facilities to carry their own crops on their farms and probably many 

 of them can buy it and will, but there undoubtedly are many who can- 

 not, and it seems to us in connection with the total over-all storage 

 program, that is needed, that the Commodity Credit Corporation 

 specifically ought to have the authority to make those facilities avail- 

 able on a loan basis because they are adequately secured in terms of 

 repayment. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Talbott, in the interest of time I might suggest that 

 unfortunately this committee does not have jurisdiction over the Com- 

 modity Credit Corporation legislation and it would not have jurisdic- 

 tion over section 202 or 203. 



Mr. Talbott. I understand the direct jurisdiction would rest in 

 another committee on the Commodity Credit Corporation, Mr. Chair- 

 man, but in the interests of an over-all program for agriculture, I 

 would hope that the members of this committee would be informed of 

 our thinking in regard to it. 



I thinlv I can conclude my remarks rather briefly now. 



Section 202, section 204, 205, 206, and 207 deal with that particular 

 problem. 



I should like to call attentibn to one suggestion which we make 

 which may seem a wide departure and may to some people seem very 

 radical : In section 207 — I believe it might have been referred to earlier 

 in the bill, directly or indirectly — the facilities which might be pro- 

 vided under a loan program from the Commodity Credit Corporation 

 should include such processing facilities as are necessary to put non- 



