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Mr. Case. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. But I get the benefit of it to the extent that my crop 

 comes right under the support leveL 



Mr. Case. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Pace. Therefore, you could allot me 50 acres of potatoes, and 

 I plant 500 and still get a substantial benefit, and I might say I do 

 not think it is any kind of control merely to have acreage allotments, 

 but that you must limit the marketing to the acreage allotment in 

 the marketing agreement or to handle it through quotas where there 

 is a penalty stiff enough to handle the noncompliance operators. 



I would like personally for you to review further limiting the control 

 of acreage allotments, because it is not any kind of control to have 

 merely acreage allotments. 



Are there any questions on acreage allotments? 



Mr. Hill. I do not know whetlier this is on acreage allotments, 

 but I would like to ask someone to tell me how you are going to handle 

 the new potato growers, the people who have come in where they are 

 going to open up some new territory. Here we are spending Federal 

 money on new production areas, and how are you going to give GI's 

 a preference on this land and get them into farming if you say "If 

 you have not been an old potato grower, 3-ou are out of the agreement?" 



Mr. Pace. In other words, make allowance for the new growers? 



Mr. Hill. Yes. 



Mr. Case. The National Potato Council agrees with you entirely, 

 Mr, Pace, that the noncomplying grower should be controlled or reg- 

 ulated, if possible. Now, in answer to this question of Congressman 

 Hill, some provision will have to be made in any program set up for a 

 certain limited percentage of acreage to be set aside for new growers. 

 Then, of course, there is a continual fluctuation between old and new, 

 and it would have some effect in restricting expansion at the will of 

 an area or the will of the potato growers. 



Mr. Hill. You mean you could actually order these boys that go 

 into an irrigated section adaptible to potatoes, where the ground is 

 new and the diseases of potatoes have not developed — if all of you 

 potato growers can sa}^ "Here, boy, you are not going to get into this, 

 because we can keep you out." 



My second question is this: How are you going to reduce this acre- 

 age and apply it to the 200-acre potato grower and then apply it to 

 the 5-acre potato grower? Are you going to give him the same cut? 



Mr. Case. Percentagewise. 



Mr. Hill. In other words, if there was a 20-percent cut, he would 

 get a 20''percent cut? 



Mr. Case. That is right. Three acres or less has been considered 

 noncommercial acreage and not regulated heretofore. Many potato 

 growers feel that noncommercial, nonregulated acreage should be 

 reduced to 1 acre. 



Mr. Hill. To 1 acre? 



Mr. Case. That is right. 



Mr. Hill. That means putting him out of business. 



Mr. Case. No. The man who was only in to the extent of 3 acres 

 was not very far into the potato business, anyhow. 



Mr. Hill. But he might have figured that was part of his farm 

 operations and an essential part. 



