The National Farm Program: What It Aims At and How It Works

[Contents:] I. Serving the Nation in War and Peace (Twenty Years Ago and Now – Emergencies That Have Been Met – In the Defense Emergency – For the Longer Pull – A National Asset) --- II. The Production Job Ahead (What This Meant in 1952 – More Acres, Bigger Yields – The Next Five Years – What Will U. S. Need in 1975? – Better Farming Is the Answer --- III. Where Soil Building Fits In (What Has Been Done – The Biggest Job Still Lies Ahead --- IV. Where Price Support Fits In – Putting Floors Under Farm Prices (Protecting Farmers’ Incomes – Steadying the National Economy – Farm Price Supports Protect Consumers – How Much Does Price Support Cost?) --- V. Where Price Support Fits In – Stabilizing Supplies Through Storage (How the Storage Program Works – The Record for Corn – The Record for Other Commodities – Storage Facilities Have Been Enlarged – The Growing Need for Adequate Reserves)

Agricultural Price Support Policies with Special Reference to Grains

Excerpts from the Foreword: Our agricultural price policy is established through 1948. That policy, as embodied in the Steagall legislation, commits the Government to maintain prices of the major farm products at not less than 90 percent of parity. The question as to the policies and program to be followed after current legislation expires at the end of 1948, and what new legislation should be enacted, will demand increased attention of Congress. The following report explores briefly some of the general economic problems which farmers may be expected to face in the years to come, and suggests policies and lines of action that might be considered in the development of new legislation. The specific program of price support as proposed for grain is designed to provide a positive basis for desirable production shifts as emergency conditions of world food shortages recede and farmers will be called upon to readjust their operations to normal market outlets

Review of Food Administration in World War II and Related Material

Table of Contents: World War I: I. History of United States Food Administration 1917-1919 --- II. Anti-Hoarding Measures ----- Material on World War II Administration: I. Outline of Functions and Activities in Administering War Food Program --- II. Highlights of Organizational Developments in Administering War Food Programs – A. Chart Outlining Evolution of Organization Structure Resulting in Production and Marketing Administration - 1939-1946 – B. Chart Outlining Organization as of June 30, 1945 of Agencies of War Food Administration Subsequently Consolidated into the Production and Marketing Administration – C. Chart Outlining General Organization of the Department of Agriculture and the War Food Administration as of March 23, 1945 --- III. Chronological Summary of Actions Taken by USDA and War Food Administration in Meeting Wartime Requirements --- IV. Activities of Agencies of the U. S. Government in the Food Program of World War II --- V. Major U. S. Civilian War Agencies as of 1945 and Their Predecessor Agencies --- VI. Price Policy - Abstracts from Wartime Economic Planning in Agriculture --- VII. Memorandum of July 2, 1943 from C. H. Fleischer to S. R. Smith, Acting Deputy Director, Food Distribution Administration, on Proposed WFA Food Price Control Policy --- VIII. Organization for and Exercise of Emergency Powers with Respect to the Nation’s Food Program during the War Period (Statement prepared by Office of the Solicitor, July 1950) --- IX. Powers Exercised by War Food Administration Derived from Wartime Legislation and Executive Orders as of February 1944 --- X. Legislative Authorities of Agencies of Department of Agriculture as of July 1950 --- XI. Final Report of the War Food Administrator – 1945 --- XII. Factors Relevant to Reorganization for War --- XIII. Summary of World War II British Food Administration --- XIV. Preliminary Bibliography of Publications and Other Materials on War Food Administration and Related Programs --- XV. Charts Outlining Organization of: A. U. S. Government at Various Periods – 1940–1946 – B. U. S. War Emergency Agencies (In separate binder) --- XVI. Food Industry Advisory Committees – Part 1 - Current Food Industry Advisory Committees as of August 1950 – Part 2 - Food Industry Advisory Committees in World War II ---- Material on Current Emergency: I. PMA Branch Comments on Food Programs in Emergency – A. Summary of PMA Branch Comments on Food Programs in War Emergency, July 1950 – B. Highlights of Summary of PMA Branch Comments – C. Program Management Staff Evaluation of PMA Branch Comments --- II. Summary of Comments on Emergency Powers Act, Fifth Edition, July 1950 --- III. Comments on Draft of the Proposed Defense Production Act of 1950 (S-3930 and H. R. 9176) and Comparison of this Bill with the Draft of the Emergency Powers Act (NSRB Document 44 Revised)

[4] Legal notice, Farm Acreage Allotment and Marketing Quota for Crop of Cotton, Watkinsville, Georgia, 1950

Acreage allotment and marketing quota notice for 1950 crop of cotton, from United States Department of Agriculture, addressed to Powell Veale, (Oconee County) Watkinsville, Georgia, dated 1949 December 8. This notice references the farm identified by state, county code, and farm serial number, 57-110-714, and states the cotton acreage allotment for 1950 is 20.0 acres.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/ohs_gen/1001/thumbnail.jp

Tung Processing and Marketing Practices and Costs

Excerpts from the report Preface: Under authority of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (RMA, Title II), a marketing research project was organized to analyze the methods and practices of oilseed mills in relation to costs and margins, and their effects on return to growers. A study of tung milling is one part of that project. Tung oil is classified by the Munitions Board as one of the six strategic oils. Production from domestic tung groves is roughly equivalent to a fifth of normal domestic requirements. This study is an attempt to analyze the methods, practices, and economic efficiency of the processing mills through which the domestic tung crop passes to the industrial users of tung oil. At the time mill data were obtained the industry was composed of 14 mills. The smallness of this number put stringent limitations on the analysis

Aerial survey [Black Hawk County] by Aero Exploration 1952

Photomosaic map of Black Hawk County, Iowa done for the U.S.Department of Agriculture Production and Marketing Administration by the Aero Exploration Companyhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/rodmaps/1025/thumbnail.jp

How Is the Wheat Agreement Working?

Excerpt from the report: The International Wheat Agreement is now in its third year. Since it runs for only 4 years, it will expire in another year unless it is renewed. This brings up the question: How has it been working ? Wheat farmers and many other people have an important interest in the answer. Since World War II, one-third of our United States wheat has gone to foreign countries. This has been the average annual product of 24 million acres. To put it another way, the wheat we have shipped abroad in recent years has been nearly equal to all the wheat grown during those years in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Without that foreign market, our wheat farmers would have to cut their production drastically. Elevator operators, millers, exporters, transportation companies, and others who handle wheat also are concerned with the future of the United States in the world wheat market