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12. Storage allowance: We recommend that the Government in- 

 crease the storage allowance offered on farm-stored grain under the 

 price-support program to provide an incentive for farmers to build 

 farm storage. 



The group went on record expressing their full approval of the 

 provisions of the international wheat agreement. We realize this 

 agreement will not come before the House inasmuch as it has been 

 submitted to the Senate in treaty form, but we do want to acquaint 

 you with our support for the agreement and our desire to see it ratified 

 at the earliest possible moment. 



Mr. Pace. I have one question: Do I understand, Mr, Hughes, 



that you feel that in submitting this recommendation you are speaking 



for about 66 percent of the total wheat acreage of the United States? 



Mr. Hughes. I believe this group in Omaha was very representative 



of the growers in that area. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Hope. 



Mr. Hope. Mr. Hughes, I want to compliment you on having pre- 

 sented some very specific proposals along lines that I am sure will be 

 helpful to the committee, I want to ask you some questions, however, 

 and the first question I have is on your recommendation No. 

 3, in which you recommend that they exclude the 1949 average 

 from consideration in the determination of future acreage allotments 

 for wheat. When you speak of 1949 acreage, do you mean the acreage 

 that was planted for the crop of 1949, or the acreage that was actually 

 planted in 1949? 



Mr. Hughes. The acreage that will be harvested in 1949, that was 

 actually planted, of course, would have been planted in the fall of 

 1948. 



Mr. Hope. Yes. In other words, it is your recommendation, that 

 wheat planted last fall be excluded from consideration in making any 

 future acreage allotments? 



Mr. Hughes. That is right. I possibly should have said wheat 

 harvested in 1949; that would have made it a little clearer. 



Mr. Hope. And this would cover wheat that was planted this spring. 

 Mr. Hughes. Cover spring wheat planting. 



Mr. Hope. Yes. I am wondering just what your reasons are for 

 recommending that the winter acreage, which was planted last fall, 

 be excluded, and my reason for asking that question particularly is 

 that it was planted, of course, without any idea that it would be ex- 

 cluded, and when farmers had no notion that wheat which might be 

 planted would not be included in acreage allotments if they should 

 be put into effect at a later date? 



This committee has considered legislation relating to cotton plant- 

 ing in 1949, and we have passed a bill which has now become the law 

 that cotton acreage planted in 1949 will not be included. 



But that became the law before the cottonseed was put in the 

 ground ; and the main purpose of the Congress in passing that legisla- 

 tion was to prevent what might have been an increase in the planting 

 of cotton during this year for the purpuse of increasing the base. That 

 is a different situation of course, to passing a law which goes back 

 and says that acreage planted last year, before anyone knew there 

 was going to be legislation, will not be counted. For that reason I 

 want to ask just what the committee had in mind in making that 

 recommendation. 



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