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Mr. White. You would have to issue certificates for selling it as 

 feed wheat, I presume. 



Air. Hope. No, I think that would just go at the world market 

 price. Your certificates would only cover that that was processed. 

 The rest of it would just go in the normal market. It would make no 

 difference, then, whether it went abroad or whether it was consumed 

 domestically for feed, alcohol, or any other purpose. 



Mr. HoEVEN. Mr. Chau*man. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Hoeven. 



Mr. Hoeven. I see Congressman Stockman of Oregon is present. 

 I wonder whether he would like to express his views. I assume these 

 gentlemen are his constituents. 



Mr. Pace. I was going to say that I would suggest to these witnesses 

 that they channel their further thoughts and recommendations through 

 Mr. Stockman, so that he in turn can handle them with the committee. 



Mr. Kaseberg. He is a member of your committee? 



Mr. Pace. No, sir; but he is a wheat grower, as you know, and an 

 actual farmer. The committee has very great respect for his views. 

 He will be in constant touch with us and you may channel your 

 further recommendations through him, and he in turn can handle 

 them with the committee. 



Is there anything you would like to add at this time, Mr. Stockman? 



Mr. Stockman. Yes, Mr. Chairman, I would like to say that I 

 certainly appreciate the generous amount of time you have given my 

 friends from home and the special calling of this committee. I am 

 sure that they, too, appreciate the efforts that you have put forth 

 in their behalf. 



I would like to say, too, that I am greatly heartened by what I have 

 learned this morning, that you and the members of ^''our committee 

 do appreciate the vast problems and the serious situation that con- 

 fronts the wheat growers of ^Vmerica, and especially the wheat growers 

 of the Pacific Northwest who have a peculiar place in the wheat situa- 

 tion in this country in that in the Pacific Northwest there grows 

 approximately 10 percent of the wheat produced in the United States. 

 It is an area in which no other crop can be grown to commercial 

 advantage due to the low rainfall and the general weather conditions 

 of that country. 



That, of course, intensifies their problems much more than the 

 problems of any other group of farmers in the country who can at the 

 same time grow other crops in case the price of wheat goes down. 

 That is one of the principal reasons why these men have such a high 

 concern about the future price of wheat. 



As has been brought out here this morning, this country is growing 

 approximately 2 bushels of ^\heat for every 1 that we consume. That 

 means that the wheat growers of the country are all right as long as 

 the Marshall plan goes on and we continue to give 450,000,000 bushels 

 of wheat away annually. But the day that Marshall plan stops 

 and we have that surplus wheat on our hands, then the Government 

 must help the wheat growers of this Nation. That is the reason they 

 are back here now trying to show to the members of the committee 

 what a serious situation really confronts the wheat grower in the 

 immediate future. 



