The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
WALLACE Sees
FARM PROGRAM
OUTDOINC AAA
CROP INSURANCE AMONG
PLANS FOR STABLE
AGRICULTURE

Secretary of Agriculture Henry
Wallace promised the American
farmer a better program than the
outlawed AAA and declared
greater economic security fol
those who live off the soil is the
objective of the administration.
Addressing the eighteenth an
nual meeting of the American
Farm Bureau Federation at Pasa-
dena, California Tuesday the
secretary said: "You may have
heard the idea advanced that the
agricultural adjustment act should
be re-enacted; that the program
carried out under its original pro-
visions was the best program
agriculture ever had. We want
to see it improved upon. A bet
ter program can and will be
built"
It's attainment, the secretary
said, centers around some method
of controlled production, crop in
surance, the ever normal gran
ary and other subjects essential
to agricultural welfare.
"Crop Insurance." the cabinet
member asserted, would be 9
valuable supplement to any pro-
duction adjustment program tina,
happened to be in effect. To as
sumo it would be a complete sub
stitute for production adjustment
in series of years of normal
weather would be mistake.
eff and when normal weather
returns, farmers will find thai
storage in the bins will not be
sufficient in itself to take care OF
their surplus problems. They will
find it must be supplemented with
greatly increased storage In the
soil. In that kind of a situation,
the welfare of the farmer and the
nation will require that the farm
ers again have power equal to
that which they once had under
the agricultural adjustment act"
The plan for crop insurance
would provide for accumulation
of reserve supplies of commodi-
ties in good crop years, to be
drawn upon in time of scarcity by
farmers who had paid their in
surance premiums in kind.
s Co-operators could take their
benefits in kind or in cash.
Wallace said this would not
only raise commodity prices by
reducing the market supply in
flush years, but also would tend to
keep prices at reasonable levels in
times of scarcity. Reserve sup
plies would be put on the market
as prices started to rise in the poor
crop years.
Essentials of the plan for great
er economic security were listed
as follows:
Opportunity for farmers to or
ganize effectively in their own in.
lterests, insofar as such interest!
coincide with the general welfare
Farm prices that are fair anc
stable, to keep farm income OF
a basis of reasonable equalit.
with non-farming income.
Supply of farm products il
line with adequate domestic con
sumption and foreign demand.
Foreign policies that do all tina
can be done in conformity wit
peaceful relations to expand for
eign markets for American farm
products.
Conservation of natural re
sources.
Retirement of submarginal Ian
from cultivation and its use TO
purposes for which it is bes
suited.
Crop insurance.
Storage of reserve supplies {
food and fiber.
Increased security of tenure fC
both tenants and owner operator
and better possibilities for tenant
to become owners.
Increased opportunity for thos
farm people whose standard {
living is now barely on a subsis'
ance basis.
Industrial policies that encoul
age abundance for wage and Sa
ary workers and farmers.