Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 Contains administrative report only. |
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Page 45 - Proceedings of the President's Conference on Technical and Distribution Research for the Benefit of Small Business, Washington, DC 34.
Page 30 - These funds are also used for the administration of marketing agreements and orders which aim to establish and maintain orderly marketing conditions for certain commodities and their products.
Page 24 - State committee will allocate the funds available for conservation practices among the counties within the State consistent with the needs for enduring conservation in the counties within the State and will give particular consideration to the furtherance of watershed conservation programs sponsored by local people and organizations.
Page 76 - ... regarding the need for balanced farm, industry, and community development in low-income rural areas. They also gained a better understanding of their own potential contribution. This interest has already borne fruit. A national church group assigned personnel to the rural development program. Several trade associations and firms issued brochures at their own expense, encouraging their membership to become active in county and area projects. Participation of private national organizations, with...
Page 5 - Price supports should provide insurance against disaster to the farm producing plant and help to stabilize national food supplies; but price supports which tend to prevent production shifts toward a balanced supply in terms of demand and which encourage uneconomic production and result in continuing heavy surpluses and subsidies should be avoided.
Page 50 - HR 10654 would provide funds for a program to assist farmers to divert a portion of their cropland from the production of excessive supplies of agricultural commodities and for a soil, water, forest, and wildlife conservation program, as authorized by the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.
Page 7 - Gross farm income for 1952 — including value of home-consumed farm products, rental value of farm dwellings, and Government payments to farmers, in addition to cash receipts from marketings — may total about 37.6 billion dollars, 2 percent higher than in 1951.
Page 18 - A farmer vertically integrates his operation by sharing some of his managerial decisions and risks in production and marketing with one or more related businesses — for instance, his supplier, processor, or distributor.
Page 65 - ... precisely after the Korean War, farm prices fell. They continued to fall, relative to the prices farmers had to pay for production goods, throughout the 1960s and the early 1970s. This can be seen by noting the changes in the Parity Ratio over these years. The Parity Ratio is a ratio of two indexes: Index of Prices Received by Farmers divided by the Index of Prices Paid by Farmers (including in the latter interest, taxes, and wages) both 9 on a base of 1910 — 14 = 100.