Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1942 Contains administrative report only. |
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abacá acreage acres adjustment agencies agricultural allotments American areas average Boards butylene glycol buying ceilings civilian committees commodities Commodity Credit Corporation conservation consumers consumption cooperation corn cotton crops dairy products Defense dehydrated demand Department developed distribution domestic dried duction effort eggs equipment evaporated milk export facilities farm families farm machinery farm products farmers feed fertilizer fertilizer materials fiber flaxseed Food for Freedom forest garden Government grain growers guayule harvested hogs important income increased industry insecticides land Latin America lend-lease livestock loans manpower materials meat ment military milk million bushels million pounds necessary needs oilseeds operation output parity peanuts Pearl Harbor percent plants post-war potatoes poultry price supports problem processing purchases quantities reduced requirements rice rubber season seed Service shipment shortage soybeans storage sugar supply tion tobacco transportation United Nations War Production Board wartime wheat workers yields
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Página 36 - To establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities, and such marketing conditions therefor, as will reestablish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period.
Página 119 - Council of National Defense, composed of the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor. The Council, in turn, was directed to nominate, and the President appoint, . ' 'An Advisory Commission consisting of no more than seven persons...
Página 29 - ... made under this section. (c) In the case of any commodity with respect to which loans may be made at the rate provided in paragraph (1) of subsection (a), the President may fix the loan rate at any rate not less than the loan rate otherwise provided by law if he determines that the loan rate so fixed is necessary to prevent an increase in the cost of feed for livestock and poultry and to aid in the effective prosecution of the war. SEC. 9. (a) Section 4 (a) of the Act entitled "An Act to extend...
Página 121 - In order to coordinate further the prosecution of the war effort by obtaining a planned and expeditious utilization of the food resources of the United Nations, there is hereby established a Combined Food Board.
Página 111 - XVI of the Third Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, held at Rio de Janeiro in January, 1942.
Página 28 - As a part of our general program on farm prices, I recommend that Congress in due time give consideration to the advisability of legislation which would place a floor under prices of farm products, in order to maintain stability in the farm market for a reasonable future time.
Página 27 - Heavier taxation. 2. An over-all ceiling on prices paid by manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers, and on rents in areas affected by war industries. 3. Stabilization of wages. 4. Stabilization of farm prices at a point no higher than parity (the 1910-14 ratio between farm and nonfarm prices).
Página 151 - Of all critical and strategic materials, rubber is the one which presents the greatest threat to the safety of our Nation and the success of the Allied cause.
Página 121 - It includes representatives of the State, War, and Navy Departments; the Board of Economic Warfare ; the Office of Lend-Lease Administration ; and the Office of Price Administration, as well as of the War Production Board and this Department.
Página 126 - ... compliance with acreage allotments and fulfillment of war-crop goals. Full compliance is contingent upon planting within the special crop allotment but not less than 90 percent of such allotment, except that acreage of war crops may be substituted acre for acre for other allotment crops ; and planting at least 90 percent of war-crop goals. Thus the production-adjustment payment is definitely a payment for producing for war needs. The production-practice allowance may be earned by carrying out...