GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 745 



Mr. Pace. The Secretary issued a statement yesterday on wheat 

 allotments in which he indicated that the marketing quota for next 

 year would be not more than a billion bushels. Is that correct? 



Mr. Walker. Around a billion bushels. 



Mr. Pace. And he says here: 



The estimate of the total supply greater than 1,600,000,000 bushels on .July 1 is 

 based on the expected carry-over of 300,000,000 bushels and assuming a 1949 crop 

 of 1,300,000. Estimates for the winter crop alone amounted to more than a billion 

 bushels. Total supplies minus expected requirements and exports would leave a 

 carry-over on July 1, 1950, of more than 460,000,000 bushels of wheat. 



Based on data presently available, our best estimates as to the carry-over, nor- 

 mal domestic consumption, exports and required reserve indicate the need for a 

 national acreage allotment which would yield a 1950 wheat crop of about a billion 

 bushels. 



Mr. Walker. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. And you figure it would take 62 to 65 million acres to 

 get that? 



Mr. Walker. In that neighborhood. 



Mr. Pace. But you are not in a position to supply the committee 

 with the data on how that would be distributed? 



Mr. Walker. We have some preliminarj^ figures only, but there is 

 no war crop credit in that and these figures have not been thoroughly 

 checked. We have preliminary figures only for the Great Plains 

 States. 



Mr. Hope. You have sent figures out to the States, as I understood 

 you to say a while ago, for them to be considering. In tliose figures, 

 what basis did you use for the computation, 62 or 65 million? 



Mr. Walker. We did not send any figures out. 



Mr. Hope. Then I misunderstood you. 



Mr. Walker. No, I said a moment ago that we have people in 

 the field now working on the war crop credit and when they get that 

 determined, then we can compute the allotments. Some of the States 

 that were called in here to a conference do have sheets similar to these 

 that have a preliminary figure that indicates about where we are go- 

 ing. It is only preliminary and there has been nothing mailed out 

 for them to work on. 



Mr. Hope. I understood a while ago in response to a question that 

 you had given the States some figures to work on so as to make the 

 shifts from county to county. 



Mr. Walker. I did not mean to imply that we had given them the 

 computed allotments. 



Mr. Hope. That is just those figures you have with you now; is 

 that right? 



Mr. Walker. That is just these preliminary figures. It wiU be 

 the latter part of June before we will be able to furnish them with 

 anything definite. 



Mr. Hope. I think the most difficult question the county commit- 

 tees are going to have to work on in the Great Plains States is the 

 matter of taking into proper account the practice of summer fallow- 

 ing. I have gone all through these documents the Department has 

 furnished me, including the regulations and amendments that have 

 gone out, and I do not see anything in them covering summer fallow- 

 ing. I recognize that under the law with the broad basis on which 

 allotments may be given to farms that summer fallowing may be 



