GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 683 



Wednesday of next week, but anything short of that time would 

 mean we would have to present it without it having cleared the 

 Secretary, and we would not like to do that and I do not think the 

 committee would like to have us do that either. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much, Mr. WooUey. 



Mr. WooLLEY. Thank you. 



Mr. Pace. The first witness on the list this morning is Dr. Ward 

 Sullivan, of the Western Kansas Cooperative Association. 



Mr. Parkinson. Mr. Chauman, Mr. Sullivan just stepped out to 

 check up on a statement that is being prepared. However, since I 

 am second and am accompanying him I could proceed. 



Mr. Pace. Suppose we just pass over both of you for the moment 

 and call the next witness. 



Mr. Parkinson. Very well. 



We will hear next from Mr. Hughes of Imperial, Nebr. 



STATEMENT OF HERBERT J. HUGHES, IMPERIAL, NEBR. 



Mr. Hughes. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my 

 name is Herbert J. Hughes; I am a wheat farmer, of Imperial, Nebr. 

 I am appearing today as a representative of a group of wheat growers 

 from the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, 

 Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Missouri who met on Monday and 

 Tuesday of this week in Omaha, Nebr., to discuss wheat problems 

 and to prepare recommendations on the application of acreage allot- 

 ments, marketing quotas and related problems for the consideration 

 of this committee. I believe all the men in this group were Farm 

 Bureau members but none of the actions taken have been referred 

 to the board of directors of that organization due to the lack of time. 

 Wheat growers from Washington and Oregon were with us on Monday 

 but were unable to remain for Tuesday's discussion. 



Some of this group have attended similar meetings in Kansas 

 City in April 1946 and in Omaha in February 1947. The average 

 planted wheat acreage of the 8 Midwest States I mentioned for the 

 10-year period, 1939 to 1948, inclusive, amounts to 66 percent of the 

 United States total for those years. 



Some men are here today who attended that meeting in Oviiaha 

 and with your permission will assist in answering any questions you 

 may have. 



recommendations of the OMAHA WHEAT CONFERENCE ON MARKETING 

 QUOTAS AND ACREAGE ALLOTMENTS 



1. Carry-over allowance: We recommend that the provision of the 

 Agricultural Act of 1948 for the inclusion of a 15-percent carry-over 

 allowance in the determination of the normal supply of wheat be 

 retained in the law. 



2. Mandatory acreage allotments: We recommend that the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture be required to establish acreage allotments on 

 wheat in any year when the estimated total supply on July 1 amounts 

 to 110 percent of a normal supply. 



3. Exclusion of 1949 acreage: We recommend that the 1949 acreage 

 of wheat be excluded from consideration in the determination of 

 future acreage allotments for wheat. 



