660 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr, Hope. And it is your opinion, I take it from what you have 

 said, that there are some advantages in this program to the miller as 

 far as the export market is concerned? 



Mr. Taylor. That is om- belief. We do not want to rely too m\ich 

 on the Commodity Credit Corporation for the price-support program. 

 However, it depends upon the type of program you have, the price 

 level, whether they would be in favor of the program. 



Mr. Hope. Let me ask you this question: Wlien the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, Mr. Brannan, was before the committee the other day 

 presenting his plan, he said, if there were acreage allotments and 

 marketing quotas on corn, it might be necessary to have acreage 

 allotments and marketing quotas on feed grains. In that situation 

 it might result, if we had the plan you are proposing for wheat, that 

 there would have to be some marketing quotas upon those parts of 

 the wheat which went into the free market. Is that correct? 



Mr. Taylor. That would depend — would it not? — on how much 

 the increase in consumption there is as a result of the lower wheat 

 price; and that is a thing we cannot say, just what that increase in 

 consumption would be. But it is rather an approach to an alternative 

 proposition, to stimulate increased use by reduction in price, in 

 addition to human food, which in the past has been pretty well limited. 



Mr. Hope. The point that I had in mind particularly was that, if 

 there should be an increase in wheat production as a result of this 

 plan, it would be necessary to take that into consideration in con- 

 nection with a program for corn or feed grains. Would it not? 



Mr. Taylor. Possibly so. Of course, the effect and the relation- 

 ship between the corn production to the use of this type of a program 

 is something that would have to be worked out. We understand 

 that only 85 percent of the corn is fed on the farm where it is pro- 

 duced; and, if that is the case, I cannot see any real problem along 

 that line that would be difi'erent to the plan where you have an allot- 

 ment program as under the present law, so far as feed grains are 

 concerned. That would prohibit us from raising barley, because we 

 can raise barley on wheat land, but we assume that there will not be 

 too much so far as other grains are concerned in our area. 



Mr. Hope. I think there might be a tendency in the case of the 

 Southwest farmers, who might shift from wheat to milo maize, which 

 can be produced on wheat land, simply to go to milo or some other 

 crop. There might not be any large production of feed grains under 

 those circumstances, under this program. But I think it might be 

 worth while to call attention to the fact, however, of the amount of 

 wheat that might be used for feed; and, as I recall the figure, we never 

 used more than 50 to 60 million bushels, but that during the war — 

 a very unusual condition — ^we consumed about 100 to 200 million 

 bushels for feed, which amount, when compared with the 3,000,000,000 

 bushels of corn, or a billion bushels of oats, and 300,000,000 bushels 

 of barley, and 150,000,000 bushels of grain sorghum, is not a very 

 big contribution toward feed, so far as that is concerned. 



Mr. Taylor. No, but if we increased that more nearly to the war- 

 time level — and that was high because of the good price for the 

 product which was fed — the price that was obtained, assisted by the 

 Government, to make feed available; but if it is used for feed, and 

 we increase its use, very naturally it will help solve the surplus problem. 



