WHEAT ACEEAGE ALLOTMENTS AND MAKKETING QUOTAS 



FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1949 



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House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee of the 



Committee on Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C. 



The Special Subcommittee met at 10 a. m., Friday, April 1, 1949, 

 Mr. Pace, Chairman presiding. 



Mr. Pace. The committee will come to order. 



Upon the conclusion of the matter we are now going to take up, 

 T would like the committee to meet in executive session for a few 

 minutes. 



We have with us this morning three gentlemen who have come all 

 the way from Oregon on business in Washington, and while here 

 were anxious to present their views with regard to the future program 

 for wheat. Congressman Lowell Stockman of Oregon has asked that 

 they have an opportunity to appear this morning and it is a pleasure 

 for the committee to hear from them at this time. 



Do all of you want to make a statement, or is one of you to make a 

 statement in behalf of all? 



STATEMENTS OF PAULEN KASEBERG, PRESIDENT OF THE OREGON 

 WHEAT GROWERS LEAGUE AND DON McKINNIS, CHAIRMAN, 

 PRODUCTION AND MARKETING COMMITTEE OF OREGON 

 WHEAT GROWERS LEAGUE 



Mr. Kaseberg. I am Paulen Kaseberg of Sherman County, Oreg., 

 president of the Oregon Wheat Growers League. I have on my right 

 Mr. Don McKinnis of L^nion County, Oreg., who is chairman of our 

 production and marketing committee. We will have prepared 

 statements for the members of the committee, but we would prefer to 

 just talk offhand to the committee on this, if that is satisfactory. 



Mr. Pace. Without objection, we will insert copies of the prepared 

 statements at this point in the record. 



(The statements are as follows:) 



Statement by P.\tjlen Kaseberg, President of the Oregon Wheat Growers 



League 



My name is Paulen Kaseberg. I reside in Sherman County, Oreg., and am 

 president of the Oregon Wheat Growers League, representing over 5,000 wheat 

 producers of the State of Oregon. 



Our wheat-growing area is different from other parts of the country. Our 

 chmate necessitates following the universal practice of the summer-fallow system of 

 wheat farming. Because of the low rainfall, which averages only 8 to 16 inches 

 over most of this region, we have no substitute crops. 



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