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Show tion of a broad program for the wheat growers will depend upon successful suc-cessful operation of community and county associations of growers. from "Wheat in the United States," G-68 General Information Seires, Agricultural Adjustment Admin-j Admin-j istration, April 1937, U. S. D. A. o Wheat Growers Plan Program for Crop Production In cooperation with the Federal Government, wheat growers are developing de-veloping their national policy. Am they study their problem they discover dis-cover that there is no single remedy rem-edy or expedient which can deal with all its different aspects. Coping Cop-ing with the wheat problem requires an attack along many fronts, and each new venture must be based upon up-on the experience gained from previous pre-vious attempts. A continuation of the agricultural conservation program, with, perhaps, per-haps, the inclusion of a wheat base, will bring about greater stability in acreage from year to year. Increasing In-creasing the acreage devoted to soil-conserving soil-conserving crops and soil-building practices will bend to stabilize wheat yields and production. Loans on wheat in conjunction with an ever-normal-granary plan will tend to prevent undue price declines in years cf surpluses, and also help to protect consumers against shortages short-ages in years of crop failure. Along with a program of agricultural conservation con-servation and storage of wheat reserves, re-serves, a crop-insurance program will do much toward bringing about stability of the wheat growers' income. in-come. All these measures taken together, however, may not be sufficient to keep the wheat-growing industry on an even keel in a series of bumper-crop bumper-crop years. In that event, commodity com-modity control cf a positive nature may be needed. With the experience of the past few years to guide them, wheat growers have an opportunity to help in shaping a longe-time national farm program that will guard agriculture agri-culture against the twin hazards of crop failure and price collapse. The national policy for wheat will be effective only to the exent that farmers themselves make it effective. effec-tive. The problem that wheat grow- i ers face cannot be solved by Government Gov-ernment action without complete cooperation on the part of producers themselves. Successful administra- |