WHEAT ACKEAGE ALLOTMENTS AND MAEKETING 



QUOTAS 



FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1949 



House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee of the 



Committee on Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C. 

 The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., Hon. Stephen Pace (chairman) 

 presiding. 



Mr. Pace. The committee will come to order. 



I announced yesterday that the opening witness this morning would 

 be a representative from the Department of Agriculture to outline the 

 recommendations of the Department with respect to the changes in the 

 quota law for wheat. We have present at this time the Assistant Ad- 

 ministrator of the Production and Marketing Administration for the 

 Department of Agriculture, Mr. Frank WooUey, who desires to explain 

 the situation to the subcommittee. 



STATEMENT OF FRANK WOOLLEY, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR, 

 PMA, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Mr. WooLLEY. Mr. Chairman, as I indicated to you over the tele- 

 phone" last evening, the Department is somewhat embarrassed in that 

 we have misunderstood how the committee wanted to proceed. It 

 was my understanding from the Secretary that the committee had 

 thought that the Department would go ahead and put into legislative 

 forms its recommendations with respect to all the changes that the 

 Department would like to recommend, including features of the Secre- 

 tary's program with respect to the loans, the production payments, 

 and so forth. 



Accordingly we have been working between the Solicitor's Office 

 and the commodity branches drafting up the ideas that those two 

 groups have, and right at the present time we are in the process of 

 trying to reconcile the differences between the commodities so that 

 the application of the suggestions that we are making on individual 

 farms will make sense to that individual farmer. 



To be specific, in the case of wheat, we talked about 10-year history 

 at the present time in the law with respect to States' and counties' allot- 

 ments. In the case of cotton, we have been talking about 5 years, 

 4 years, 3 years, 2 years, as you will recall; and also there is a provision 

 in the law with respect to cotton of approaching the problem from the 

 standpoint of cropland. Whereas, with respect to wheat, the problem 

 is approaching it from the standpoint of crop-rotation practices, till- 

 able acreage, soil types, and so forth. 



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