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variable scliedule, loans would decrease. This is tlie identical recom- 

 mendation that we made on this subject to the Congress last spring. 



RECOMMENDATION NO. 2 



We urge that the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 

 be clarified : 



(1) To make it mandatory on the Secretary of Agriculture to estab- 

 lish acreage allotments on all basic crops, prior to or at the time of 

 announcement of marketing quotas; (2) to provide that an adverse 

 leferendum vote on marketing quotas shall not invalidate provisions 

 for acreage allotments, except in the case of tobacco, and (3) further 

 to provide that an adverse referendum vote on marketing quotas shall 

 not prevent cooperators in the acreage-allotment program from receiv- 

 ing loans at the scheduled rate, without the 20 percent premium which 

 would otherwise be available with acreage allotments, but that no 

 loan shall be available to noncooperators. 



RECOMMENDATION NO. .3 



We recommend that section 302 (h) of the Agricultural Adjustment 

 Act of 1938 as amended, by the Agricultural Act of 1948 down to the 

 word "except" be amended to read as follows : 



The Commodity Credit Corporation shall not sell any farm commodity owned 

 or controlled by it at less than a price midway between the parity price and the 

 level of support for the price of such commodity for the marketing year in which 

 such sale is to be made, or at less than 90 percent of the parity price therefor if 

 the price therefor is not supported in such marketing year, except * * *. 



RECOMMENDATION NO. 4 



We recommend that subsection 302 (c) of the Agricultural Adjust- 

 ment Act of 1938, as amended by the Agricultural Act of 1948. be fur- 

 ther amended by inserting new language at the beginning of said sub- 

 section as follows : 



(1) Insofar as feasible, price support shall be made available to the pro- 

 ducers of any nonbasic agricultural commodity, whenever acreage allotments, 

 marketing quotas, or marketing agreements are in effect for such commodity. 

 In determining the feasibility and level of price supiiort operations for any 

 nonbasic commodity, the Secretary of Agriculture shall give consideration to 

 the factors specified in subsection (a) : Provided. That no program shall be 

 planned under authority of this subsection, the estimated cost of which in any 

 year with respect to any nonbasic commodity will exceed an amount equal to 

 30 ijercent of the estimated value of the United States production of such com- 

 modity in the preceding year, unless otherwise provided by law. 



■ RECOMMENDATION NO. 5 



We recommend that legislative authority be provided for the estab- 

 lisliment of acreage allotments and/or marketing quotas on the non- 

 basic commodities. Such legislation should provide for marketing 

 quotas to become effective only when approved by a two-thirds ma- 

 jority of the affected producers voting in a referendum. 



