These are some of the products that we would need to produce in greater abundance, according to the nutritionists, if we set out to give everyone in the United States a satisfactory diet. Further, a great many Americans would benefit by eating more meat than they now can afford to buy. My first point, then, is that so far as production is concerned, existing national policy has given us a more flexible, more adjustable, less haphazard type of agriculture. If the nation summons the will to do the job, agriculture can meet the new demands. I do not mean to imply, however, that there is any reason to feel smug about the adjustments agriculture has accomplished so far.
Many problems remain.
There is no way in sight by which this country could increase its consumption of these products sufficiently to take care of these surpluses. Even a return to normal world trade would not solve the problem of cotton and wheat surpluses. Here we still need more downward adjustment. We shall have to find other uses for part of the cotton and wheat land. One of the best possible uses would be to dedicate some of this land to the products of which we do need more if we are to build up national health, strength, and stamina.