GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 945 



3. Tlie growers enter into the accepted Federal market agreement through 

 which proper grading may be made. The Secretary of Agriculture shall have the 

 right to regulate the shipments to grade No. 1 potatoes a? long as the price of 

 potatoes are below the 90 percent parity. 



4. If potatoes are below parity the Secretary of Agriculture shall limit the sale of 

 20 percent of each grower's production per month for late producing and storage 

 acres. 



5. Potato land cut under acreage limitations should be summer fallowed or a 

 legume crop grown for green manure during that season, so that potato growers 

 vna\ not contribute to overproduction in other commodities. 



6. Acreage allotments should be set up as near as possible on the basis of the 

 acreage which has been signed up and compliance met during the last 4-j-ear 

 period. 



Mr. Pace. Now, Mr. Wescott, if yoii and the other witnesses will 

 please come up, we will proceed with our questioning. 



Before we submit our questions, I might state, in the light of the 

 statements made by the representatives in Congress, I had anticipated 

 a complete agreement among the growers, although I am sure that was 

 hoping for a lot, but I do find on some questions, Mr. Wescott, there is 

 some disagreement. 



Are there any questions of the witnesses? 



Mr. CooLEY. Mr. Wescott, in your second recommendation you 

 used the words "where feasible." In other words, the recommenda- 

 tion is that compliance with acreage goals and marketing agreements 

 in areas where feasible be a condition of eligibilit}" for price support. 

 Unde • wh.it circumstance? wouli! it not be feasible to iv-quire 

 compliance.' 



Mr. Wescott. In any State, Mr. Cooley, that produces a low 

 acreage, where potatoes are used for local consimiption. I cannot 

 remember the figures of all of those States, but take a State like New 

 Mexico, which produces, probably, a thousand acres of potatoes 

 commercially: It is my thinking that a marketing agreement there 

 probably would not be nec.essar3^ Those potatoes are used locally. 



Mr. Cooley. In other words, 3^ou mean those in the New Mexico 

 potato growers marketing agreement would not be expected to comply 

 with acreage allotments? 



Mr. Westcott. And in the marketing agreement, also; yes, sir; but 

 should be expected to comply with the acreage goals to be eligible for 

 price support. As a secondary portion, where the limiting condition 

 would be the condition of eligibility under the marketmg agreement, 

 w^e do not think it would be feasible. 



Mr. Cooley. To whom would \'ou leave the determination of that ; 

 woidd you leave it to the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the 

 feasibilit}^ of the requirements? 



Mr. Wescott. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Pace. Are there au}^ questions on the matter of the marketing 

 agreement as recommended? 



Mr. PoAGE. I did not understand the answer to Mr. Cooley's 

 question, of who was going to determine it. Are you going to leave 

 that entirely to the Secretary? Sa}^ the Secretary decides, in the 

 State of Texas, they ought to have a marketing agreement, and the 

 producers up in the Panhandle decide they do not want a marketing 

 agreement, and the producers down in the lower Rio Grande Vallej^ 

 who produce an entirely different type of potato under entirely difi'erent 

 conditions, decide they want a marketing agreement: Are you going 



