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...Pearson pushed through a new Canadian flag and set up a special Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. In the prairie provinces-where the political leanings are Conservative, but the wheat buyer is always right-he can brag about last month's $450 million sale of 222 million bu. of wheat to Russia. He has installed a new and vastly expanded social security system, a new minimum-wage law and a far-reaching anti-poverty program. All this seems to be reflected in the most recent Gallup poll, which gives Pearson's Liberals a 45%-to-29% lead...
...conclusively demonstrated than in the summer of 1965. This month and next, despite three decades of heroic federal efforts to limit the land's insistent bounty, farmers from ocean to ocean and border to border will harvest the largest crop in the nation's history-1.4 billion bu. of wheat, up 7% from last year; 4.1 billion bu. of corn, up 15% ; 961 million bu. of oats, up 9% ; 624 million bu. of grain sorghum, up 27% ; 120 million tons of hay, up 3% ; 864 million bu. of soybeans...
...Crazy Quilt." Squirreled away in silos and warehouses, the mess is worth $6.8 billion, consists of 795 million bu. of wheat, 1.2 billion bu. of corn, 640 million bu. of grain sorghum, 12 million bales of cotton and 1.1 billion Ibs. of tobacco. Though it has shrunk somewhat as a result of Food for Peace shipments, this vast reserve costs $365 million a year merely to store, and threatens to expand again as a result of this year's mighty harvest-which Agriculture Department officials view as an unmitigated disaster...
...Bill. Instead, as passed by the House, the Administration bill would extend the program for four years-the longest life of any omnibus farm bill in U.S. legislative history. Its provisions essentially are little changed from previous programs, with the exception of an additional 50?-a-bu. subsidy for wheat, raising the support price to $2.50 for wheat grown for domestic consumption, and a new cropland retirement plan under which the Agriculture Secretary may draw...
Farmers were asked to vote between a $2-a-bu. support price coupled with strict, mandatory quantitative controls (Cochrane's plan) or no program at all -and, warned Freeman, "$1 wheat." Shuman fired the opening shot at a Farm Bureau convention in Atlanta before the referendum, said that Washington seemed "determined to either rule or ruin American agriculture." Who, he asked, "will run the farms of America? Will it be the farmers or political bureaucrats?" The clincher...