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FARM BUREAU 

 Sticks To 1948 

 FARM ACT 



AFBF President Kline 

 Testifies Before Farm 

 Program Committee in 

 Washington In Support 

 of 1948 Agricultural Act 



THE I'arm Bureau favors tlic agri- 

 cultural Act of 19-48 with its flexible 

 price supports and modernized parity 

 formula over the new farm proposal 

 of Secretary of Agriculture Charles 

 Brannan. Allan B. Kline, president 

 the American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion, made this point clear in his ap- 

 pearance before the national farm pro- 

 gram subcommittee of the House Agri- 

 cultural Committee in Washington re- 

 cently. 



Kline said that Secretary Brannan s 

 proposal throws away the parity price 

 approach to a fair exchange \alue for 

 farm commodities. 



Instead the secretary s proposal means 

 government-administered farm prices and 

 farm income, with government control 

 of all land and livestock production and 

 a ceiling on opportunity in agriculture, 

 the AFBF president told the subcom- 

 mittee. 



The Brannan program, he added, in- 

 troduces a cheap food philosophy and 

 seeks to establish the principle that tax- 

 payers should p-iy a considerable por- 

 tion of the grocery bill of consumers. 



Kline also said the Farm Bureau be- 

 lieved that the Agricultural Act of 19-48 



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President Allan B. Kline reads the Ameritan 

 farm Bureau federation statement in sup' 

 port of the Agricultural Act of 1948 in the 

 House Agriculture Committee's hearing 

 room. Just behind Kline are four AfBf 

 executive committee members: (left to 

 rights George Wilson, California; Waller 

 Kandolphf Alabama; Hassil Schenck, In' 

 diana; and Wilson Heaps, Maryland. Man 

 at right at table is shorthand clerk. 



could be improved by certain amend- 

 ments. Included in the amendments 

 recommended by the Farm Bureau were: 



Provide that as a general policy, sub- 

 ject to certain exceptions already in the 

 law, Commodity Credit Corporation shall 

 not sell any farm commodity at less than 

 a price midway between the paritv priie 

 and the support m effect at the time of 

 the sale. 



Retjuire the secretary of agriculture 

 to establish acreage allotments on all 



basic crops except tobacco before or at 

 the time he announces marketing cjuotas. 

 That if farmers \ote down marketing 

 cjiiotas. cooperators in the acreage allot- 

 ment program would still be permitted 

 to get loajis at the scheduled rate. No 

 loans, however, woiild Ix- macie available 

 to non-cooperatcjrv 



Pro\ide that a> far as is practical 

 price supports Ix made available to the 

 producers ot .iiiy nonbasic agricultural 

 commodity whenever acreage allotments, 

 marketing cjuotas, or marketing agree- 

 ments are in effect for such commodity. 



Amend the parity formula provisions 

 of the 194s Agricultural Act to recjuire 

 that subsidy payments made to farmers 

 to hold dow n prices to consur^xrs during 

 the vvar be included as part of the prices 

 received by farmers in computing parity 

 prices under the 1 Oyear moving average 

 formula. 



Life Manager Visits Costa Rica 



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E. RICHARDSON, manager of 

 Country Life Insurance Company, 

 had a look at the agriculture of Cen- 

 America on a recent trip with his 

 Through arrange- 

 Tanner. aericultural 



tral 



wife to Costa Rica 



ments made by Ed 



A. t. Richardson 

 (right J, manager of 

 Country Life Insur- 

 ance Company, on a 

 recent trip to Central 

 America enjoyed the 

 privilege of riding on 

 the special car of Pro- 

 visional President Fig- 

 veres of Costa Rica, 

 figueres is pictured 

 ot the lefff and his 

 special car operated 

 on rails by automo- 

 tive power Is in back- 

 ground. 



attache of the American embassy at San 

 lose, and Howard Gabbert. of the F'ood 

 Production division of the Institute of 

 Inter-American Affairs, he attended a 

 soil conservation meeting at Orena in 

 <^osta Rica. 



1 he prov isional president ol (.osta. 

 Rica spoke at this meeting and invited 

 the Ciountry Life manager to ride back 

 to San lose with him. 



Richardson reports that there is con- 

 siderable interest in soil conservation and 

 scientific agricultural development in 

 this territory. The United .States is co- 

 operating with the Extension Depart- 

 ment under the Institute of Inter-Amer- 

 ican Affairs. Ihere are a number of 

 county agents located throughout the 

 territory. Mr. Tanner told Mr. Richard- 

 son that he knew many of the Farm 

 Bureau leaders of this country. Principal 

 crops of the area are coflFee. bananas, 

 sugar, some grains and many vegetables. 



Mr. and Mrs. Richardson's daughter, 

 Martha, is a secretary in the American 

 embassy at San Jose. 



JUNE, 1949 



