Campbell Cites Value Of Growing Agriculture
The agriculture of tomorrow—
an expanding agriculture
aggressively seeking to help
meet world needs—is being
developed today in America,
Under Secretary of Agriculture
J. Phil Campbell said last week in
Knoxville, Tenn.
“With this emphasis on an
expanding agriculture, we have
cut in half the rate of decline in
farm numbers,” Mr. Campbell
said. “With an expanding
agriculture, we are laying the
best foundation for the sound
development of rural America.
“For an expanding agriculture,
we have worked hard to expand
exports—and these efforts have
paid off.”
For the 23rd Annual Convention
of the Burley and Dark Leaf
Tobacco Export Association, Mr
Campbell outlined the role of the
tobacco farmer in an expanding
agriculture.
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“Your role is to meet an in
creasing demand, both here and
abroad, for tobacco,” Mr.
Campbell said. “It’s as simple as
that. When the world stops
wanting the finest tobacco ever
made, it will no longer need you. I
do not forsee that time.
“On the other hand, I do not
forsee an exploding demand for
your product. While U. S.
production of cigarettes—which
absorbs 80 percent of the hurley
supply—is expected to increase
somewhat this fiscal year,
overall leaf exports may decline.
However, foreign demand for
hurley continues to grow but an
increasing share is being sup
plied by foreign producers, often
at prices less than half the U. S.
levels.”
The challenges facing the
American tobacco producer are
tremendous, Mr. Campbell said.
They include reducing the cost of
production, foreign trade
barriers, health concerns and the
reduction of the amount of
tobacco in cigarettes.
“Yet there is a demand to be
filled,” the Under Secretary
asserted “Your initiative and
propensity for hard work have
helped fill that demand for more
than 350 years
“We stand today as the world’s
largest exporter of tobacco In
fact, our exports account for
about one-third of the world’s
tobacco trade. In fiscal year 1972
U.S exports of tobacco and
tobacco products were a record
$764 million.
“At the same time, U S. im
ports of tobacco and tobacco
products last year were valued at
$167 million. Thus, U.S. foreign
trade in tobacco resulted in a net
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million.
“Our hurley exports of over 44
million pounds—worth $5O
million—were up 10 percent m
quantity and 20 percent in value
compared to fiscal year 1971.
Likewise, our exports of Ken
tucky-Tennessee fire-cured—at
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$l6 million—were up 17 percent in
quantity and 28 percent in value
from fiscal 1971.
“To paraphrase a well-known
saying: The reports of your
demise have been greatly
exaggerated.
“Although tobacco utilizes only
three-tenths of a percent of the
Nation’s cropland, it is usually
the fourth or fifth most valuable
crop and accounts for about six
percent of cash receipts from all
U.S. crops.”
With 600,000 U.S. farm families
sharing in the proceeds from the
sale of tobacco, Mr. Campbell
noted, the tobacco industry plays
a major role m the economy of an
ever-changing, ever-growing
Southland.
“The South has thrived on
change,” he said. “As the
Agricultural Act of 1970 gave
farmers more freedom to shift
their cropping patterns, cotton
production began a near
revolutionary shift toward the
most efficient production areas,
such as the Mississippi Delta and
the High Plains and Rolling
Plains of Texas Southern Plains
producers planted more
sorghums for their rapidly
growing livestock industry.
Midsouth producers expanded
their soybean production in
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“Such production shifts help
make U.S. agriculture more
efficient and more competitive, a
vital point in an industry which
depends heavily upon exports
“Similarly, the President has
expanded opportunities for world
trade and world peace through
his visits to China and Russia as
well as his removal of the
requirement that 50 percent of all
United States wheat and feed
grain exports to the Soviet Union
and certain other Communist
destinations be carried in United
States ships
“Also, his initiatives that
resulted in adjustments in world
currency rates made American
agricultural commodities more
competitive in price on world
markets
“Such peace and trade
initiatives at home and abroad
are expanding the promise of
American agriculture. They are
good news for every aspect of
agriculture and rural develop
ment
“Perhaps more than many
others, the American farmer
benefits from world peace and
expanding trade and certainly
the development of rural
America depends upon a
prosperous agriculture
“One of the most stable
components of the South’s ac
celerating economy is its suc
cessful tobacco industry. And the
South is growing rapidly in op
portunity and in many aspects of
life quality.
“The South was attractive
enough to-have experienced a
112,000-person net inmigration in
the Sixties. It is industrializing at
a faster rate than the rest of the
country. In terms of real income,
the South has almost or already
reached parity with national
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“Yes, the policy of an ex
panding agriculture that puts
more money in the farmer’s
pockets and allows them the
freedom to manage their farms
as they see best—that kind of
agricultural policy is helping to
build a better America.”
Mr. Campbell said Secretary of
Agriculture Earl L Butz has
“done a great job of presenting
the farmers’ case to the White
House and the President has
backed him up in resisting
pressure to put price ceilings on
first-time sales of raw
agricultural products, which in
the long run would have been bad
not only for farmers but for the
Nation’s consumers.
“With this kind of leadership,
the breakthroughs of 1972
promise brighter horizons for
American agriculture,” Mr.
Campbell concluded
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suggestions for the Pennsylvania
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The 48-member committee will
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the voting delegates at the
organization’s 22nd Annual
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Penn Harris Motel.
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organization with more than
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Keystone State, and it is af
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Bureau Federation. PFA has 48
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