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168,000,000 for feed and seed. Would you suggest that the wheat 

 produced and fed on the farm, kept there for seed or feed, be exempt 

 from acreage controls? 



Mr. Parkinson. I have not thought the thing clear through, but I 

 made this recommendation just assuming that was kept right on the 

 farm, and that would be one of the little problems. My personal 

 opinion would be that m order to maintain parity on this portion that 

 would be used otherwise, perhaps there could be some consideration 

 to not including that in the parity support. 



Mr. Sullivan. If you will permit me, I think I may be able to 

 clarify that just a little, from our point of view. 



Mr. Parkinson was attempting to get rid of the surplus, and we 

 were simply pointing out where this wheat was going. Approximately, 

 we have so much wheat for consumption domestically; we have to 

 use so much wheat for seed. The farmer ordinarily will consume some 

 of the wheat on the farm by feeding grain to chickens and things like 

 that. I do not think he ought to be allowed to sell that wheat on 

 the market as feed in competition with corn; I do not think he ought 

 to do it. 



Mr. Hope. As I understand it, Mr. Parkinson, you are not pre- 

 senting a plan here in which all of the details have been worked out? 



Mr. Parkinson. No, sir. 



Mr. Hope. But yon are presenting this idea on the theory as long 

 as there are hungry people throughout the world, as there are now 

 and have been in the past, it is incorrect to say that we are producing 

 a surplus of food grains? 



Mr. Parkinson. Correct. 



Mr. Hope. And you are trying to work out some method by which 

 you can bring together the surplus we may from time to time produce 

 in this country and use it to feed hungry people throughout the world? 



Mr. Parkinson. That is correct. 



Mr. Hope. And you are doing that from a humanitarian stand- 

 point, from the standpoint of our foreign program and from the stand- 

 point of disposing of our surplus? 



Mr. Parkinson. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Pace. Just one more question: Assumnig some of these nations 

 where you would place these storage facilities are wheat-importing 

 countries under the wheat agreement — I do not know whether they 

 are or not; probablj^ you know. 



Mr. Parkinson. I could not say. 



Mr. Pace. Assuming they are 



Mr. Parkinson. I just set this up as an example for the committee. 



Mr. Pace. Let us use it as an example. Assuming they are wheat- 

 importing countries and they are under the wheat agreement and we 

 will say the same country was expected to buy 30,000,000 bushels of 

 wheat under that agreement and pay the agreed price for it, what 

 would be their reaction if you put storage facilities there and put 

 100,000,000 bushels of this other wheat in storage that they could get 

 for whatever price they were able to negotiate? What would be their 

 reaction to taking wheat under the wheat agreement? 



Mr. Parkinson. I think those are obligations they have signed for 

 and agreed to carry out. Part of this is psychological. We know as 

 surely as we are here that the Russian Government is waiting for but 

 one thing in the world ; that is a break-down in the economy that even- 



