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effect, and we would put it into effect some way, but it probably would 

 not be a very good job, I would say. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much. Are there any further questions? 



Mr. Andresen. May I just ask this question: I wonder if the De- 

 partment has taken into consideration the fact that we may have 

 1,000,000,000 bushels of winter wheat, and 300,000,000 bushels of 

 spring wheat, and a carry-over of 300,000,000 bushels, or 1,600,000,000, 

 and we need approximately 800,000,000 bushels for our domestic con- 

 sumption and export. That leaves 800,000,000 bushels, and I am 

 wondering if you are making plans to cut the acres of the 1950 crop 

 in the light of that production? 



Mr. WooLLEY. Your 800,000,000 bushels for domestic and export 

 is considerably low. We estimate our exports at 450,000,000 bushels, 

 and on top of that, domestic use, that is, need for food, feed and in- 

 dustrial use, at around 700,000,000, which added to the 450,000,000, 

 gives us 1,150,000,000 bushels, from the possible 1,600,000,000. 



Mr. Andresen. That is, exports will be in that amount provided 

 it is not acquired in Canada or some other country such as the Ukraine. 



Mr. WooLLEY. 450,000,000 bushels is what we are planning on for 

 exports for the 1949-50 wheat year. 



Mr. Andresen. We will need about 450,000,000 bushels for human 

 consumption? 



Mr. WooLLEY. Yes. 



Mr. Andresen. And we are going to have some reduced acreage 

 next year, and so that 60,000,000 bushels will be enough for seed. 



Mr. WooLLEY. I think that is about the figure. 



Mr. Andresen. Then we have one of the greatest corn crops ; we have 

 a surplus carry-over of around 750,000,000. And you say we will need 

 800,000,000 bushels, for domestic use, plus 450 



Mr. WooLLEY. No, I said for feed, seed, food and industrial uses, 

 700,000,000 bushels, and for export, 450,000,000 bushels; those are the 

 figures we are using, and we are assuming 1,300,000,000 bushels where 

 you spoke of 



Mr. Andresen. I was just wondering if you were working on the 

 basis of cutting down the acreage of wheat in the 1950 program 



Mr. Woolley. We are thinking in terms somewhere between 62 

 and 65 million acres. 



Mr. Andresen. As against what for this year? 



Mr. Woolley. I think it is around 81,000,000 acres, as I recall. 



Mr. Andresen. That would be a 20 to 25 percent cut in acres. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Woolley, we thank you; we are sorry you are not 

 ready to submit the recommendations, but we understand the situa- 

 tion. 



Mr. Woolley. Thank you. 



Mr. Andresen. I wonder if we have it understood that the quicker 

 we can get it the better? 



Mr. Woolley. Yes, and we would not be working Saturday and 

 Sunday if we did not realize that. 



Mr. Hope. Would it be in order to make the suggestion, that in 

 view of the urgent necessity of getting this information with respect 

 to wheat, that the Department be asked to concentrate on getting 

 agreement on that point, and submit a report to the committee? 



Mr. Woolley. I could promise that we could have before the 

 committee a statement setting forth fully the Department's views by 



