1148 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. Pace. The plan would be to make those payments only to 

 producers who conform to the goals. 



Secretary Brannan. Who are compilers. 



Mr. Pace. WTiich has not been possible in the program heretofore 

 and is not possible this year. 



Secretary Brannan. We have goals identified and compilers identi- 

 fied, but we still have very little benefit from the program. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Woolley, are you ready with the figm'es, the over- 

 all figures, both Commodity Credit Corporation funds and section 32 

 funds for the 1947 fiscal year? 



Mr. WooLLEY. It is 91,000,000 for 1947; 1948, 53,000,000; 1949, 

 222,000,000. 



Mr. Pace. Are there any questions on Irish potatoes? 



Mr. Murray. I would like 1943, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Pace. Get the 1943 figures, Mr. Woolley. While he is doing 

 that, go ahead, Mr. Hope. 



Mr. Murray. The 1943 crop. We had a 458,000,000-bushel 

 potato crop and the program cost $21,000,000. 



Mr. Pace. You seem to be acquainted with those figures and we 

 will take your statement as to their correctness. 



Mr. Woolley. I do not have the 1943 figures with me. 



Mr. Pace. We will take Mr. Murray's statement. 



All right, Mr. Hope. 



Mr. Hope. Mr. Secretary, you spoke about a nominal cost of ten to 

 fifteen million dollars if you were making price-support payments 

 rather than following the plan we have followed. At what level of 

 price support would that be? 



Secretary Brannan. I am assuming the mandatory support at 60 

 percent. 



Mr. Hope. You are speaking about this year? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Hope. If you are allowed to take care of it in the form of 

 payments. Do you have any estimate as to how much it would be 

 if we go ahead and carry it out on the basis of Government buying, 

 as has been the case in the past? 



Secretary Brannan. Mr. Hope, what year are you talking about 

 now? 



Mr. Hope. The current year. 



Mr. Pace. He means going ahead with the program as it is now. 



Secretary Brannan. May I say first of all that I think we are 

 obliged to go ahead with the program as it is now. I do not think 

 you can switch in the middle of the potato season from one program 

 to another because we would be treating farmers in one part of the 

 country differently than we were treating farmers in the other part 

 of the country. So far as I am concerned, I would say no change for 

 the 1949 crop. 



Mr. Pace. You would take the pavments and apply them to the 

 1950 crop? 



Secretary Brannan. That is right. 



Mr. Hope. But the figure that you gave a while ago of $15,000,000 

 was based on the support-price level we have been using in the 1949 

 year. 



Secretary Brannan. That is right. 



Mr. Hope. Are you prepared to give us any estimate as to what th& 

 program will cost this year? 



