.S. Agriculture Seen Meeting Domestic Needs
American agriculture up
to IMS will likely have the
capacity for a little excess
production but not always
enough to meet occasional
surges of demand for ex*
ports, declared Dr. George
E. Brandow of The Penn
sylvania State University
during the annual meeting of
the American Agricultural
Economics Association at
College Station, Texas, on
August 20.
Dr. Brandow said the
current U. S. food situation is
a severe instance of ab
normal export demand and
is being extended by serious
drought.
A specialist in farm and
food policy, he presented the
annual Fellow’s lecture at
the AAEA meeting. His
views for a long-range
outlook were based on
projections of food
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for tfto different situations.
In the first, long-established
trends would dominate the
outlook rather than recent
exceptions such as world
wide drought.
The second situation would
hinge on possible growth of
export demand beyond
unusual levels. Either
situation, he said, could be
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on agriculture’s capacity to
meet demands due to
shortages of fertilizer and
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If exports should go back
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reported, production could
keep up with growth of the
total market at prices no
higher in relation to other
consumer prices than were
usual prior to 1972. A small
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surplus would be likely in the
usual rase, the study
showed, but surges of export
demand such as experienced
in 1966 and 1972-73 could
create temporary shortages.
Expansion of farm output
would be speeded up if high
demand and prices created a
strong incentive, he pointed
out. His figures for that
situation showed a 25 million
acre increase over the 325
million acre of harvested
cropland otherwise to be
expected. The figures also
showed slightly higher
average yields per acre
despite the lower produc
tivity of new cropland. Total
grain production would be
boosted by 12 per cent and
export availability of grains
by two-thirds if high prices
prevailed.
The United States
probably would be able to
provide about as much food
aid to poor countries as at
the peak of past aid even
without the stimulus of high
prices, according to the
study. Crop prices that
remained as favorable to
farmers as in 1972-73 might
generate four times as much
food for aid, a representative
projection showed. Even
that volume of food could not
itself long sustain all the less
developed countries,
Brandow concluded, because
it would be absorbed by
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Crop disaster payments to
producers of 1974-crop
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may total a half billion
dollars, Secretary of
Agriculture Earl L. Butz
said today.
Producers of wheat, corn,
gram sorghum, barley and
upland cotton who have
suffered catastrophic losses
due to excessive moisture
last spring followed by
severe summer drought may
recover some of their losses
under a provision of the
Agriculture and Consumer
Protection Act of 1973.
Under the disaster
payment program provision
of the 1973 Act farmers are
eligible for indemnity
payment when they are
prevented from planting
crops due to natural forces
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crops is substantially less
than the normal production
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term guarantees of
favorable returns to
producers and cheap credit
for land development.
Professor Brandow em
phasized the need to take
uncertainty into account in
forming food and
agricultural policy and
argued for flexibility
capable of dealing with
events as they unfold. He
pointed to stabilization of
market supplies as a leading
problem but warned that the
task would be more difficult
than formerly thought.
“One of the surest con
clusions in an uncertain
world,” he affirmed, “is that
the United States can feed
itself for a long time to
come.”
If serious reverses were to
occur in agriculture, he
would recommend the use of
reduced exports, more
resources committed to
agriculture, and a shift from
animal to plant foods. He
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measures would not be
pleasant, all the people could
be nourished adequately.
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