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Eisenhower's proposals would eliminate the one-year acreage reserve practice, and instead encourage the conservation reserve program, through which farmers are paid for taking land out of production for at least three years.
If the Democrats get the slightest hint that domestic programs are being cut in the interests of a balanced budget, the real yelling will start. With a good chance to make a Congressional sweep in November, the Democrats won't be missing a trick, particularly on such tangible programs as...
Four-State Experiment. Benson's 1956 soil bank plan was supposed to cut farm production, but after an expenditure of $61 million, out popped the new heads: while letting a farmer bank part of his land, it left him free to boost output on the unbanked acres, and surpluses...
The whole-farm-retirement idea made sound sense to the U.S.'s biggest farmer organization, the 1,600,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation. Meeting in Chicago last week, the A.F.B.F. called for a "special effort" by the Government to get whole farms into a long-term conservation reserve...
To get it started again, Alaskans set up a bipartisan committee, headed by onetime Democratic Governor Ernest Gruening, to argue the case for unlimited exploration. Said Gruening, himself a vociferous conservationist: "The conservation lobbyists who get most upset are those who live in big-city apartments and have not the...