lAA, AFBF Stand 

 Firm on Flexible = 

 Support Prices 



BOARD of directors of the Ameri- 

 can Farm Bureau Federatioa is 

 standing firm in its backing of the 

 Agricultural Act of 1948 and its 

 provisions for flexible price sup- 

 ports. 



This is the same position as the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association. 



The board of the national Farm Bureau 

 took action to back up its original sup- 

 port of flexible price supports at a meet- 

 ing in Washington late in January. 



President Allan B. Kline of the AFBF 

 in summing up the Farm Bureau's po- 

 sition said in part: 



"The law (the Agricultural Act of 

 1948 providing flexible price supports) 

 was passed last summer with practically 

 unanimous support of the state Farm 

 Bureaus, and with a strong bi-partisan 

 support in Congress. 



"President Truman had previously 

 asked Congress to pass a bill with flexible 

 price supports, and the platforms of both 



major political parties called for this 

 type of price support. 



"Since the present Congress has con- 

 vened, President Truman's Council of 

 Economic Advisers has pointed the neces- 

 sity of maintaining adequate purchasing 

 power, but called attention to the weak- 

 ness of supports at too high levels, and 

 endorsed the flexible price support pro- 

 visions of the present law." 



On the oleo-butter issue, the AFBF 

 board adopted the following position: 



"We favor removal of special taxes on 

 margarine, if and when satisfactory means 

 are taken to identify margarine and 

 butter." 



This position is the same as that taken 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



AFBF Secretary Wilfred Shaw, former 

 director of milk marketing for the lAA, 



llllneb Congrmi§man aru •ii**rtaii>*rf la 

 Wmhiftttom at a dtnimr glv»n hy thu fNI> 

 noi< Agrltaltural Associoflen. PrasMcKf 

 Charim* B. Shymam li iljrtli from rlyht 

 (thnt^lng), AfBf man attmnding w«r« Teai 

 Cowrfan (Mt), Pracidan* Allan Klfata 

 (ftondlng, sacend from Mt); DooaU Kirk- 

 Patrick, (tlxth from Mt, ttaodlog), aorf 

 Kogor Flaming fiacenrf from right. 



said he thought this position was fait 

 to both consumer and producer. 



Farmers do not believe in "penalizing 

 the production or sale of any good food 

 product by means of a special tax or 

 other form of discrimination," Shaw said. 



"But we do insist that consumers have 

 the right to know what they are buying 

 and that the dairyman is entitled to pro- 

 tection of butter's identity." 



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