Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-08 | Page 14 | Another Production near-Miracle

Another Production Near-Miracle Near THE days of wartime agricultural l shortages and to some extent extent extent ex ex- tent of high wartime agricultural prices are rapidly approaching approach approach- ing an end So says an article in a recent issue of Business Week magazine which deserves thoughtful consideration by all 1 those en engaged aged in agricultural activity or dependent upon agricultural activity and by residents of states such as Utah in which agriculture agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture plays an important role in economic conditions War Var food administration economists says Business Week are practically unanimous in the conviction that because of high guaranteed prices now and after the war unmanageable surpluses surpluses surpluses sur sur- pluses of a number of farm products are bound to pile up unless production is controlled Here is the situation It is expected that bushels of wheat will be carried over next season and present indications are that winter wheat growers have seeded more acres this fall than last We will carry carryover over about bushels of corn but with hog production down there will be a smaller demand for corn next year We Ve will carry carryover over more than bales of cotton and experts say that an increase In cotton acreage next year is a certainty with present guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed guaran guaran- teed high prices for cotton It is anticipated there will be a decline in the demand for fluid milk next year A lower demand for pork and lard is expected with the distinct possibility of too much hog production Eggs may be next year car Overproduction of certain vegetables is anticipated What this all adds up to is a possible reversal of farm policy for next year Next years year's farm production program will not be announced until December but Business Week says nays the to agricultural economists' economists thinking is the message re recently recently recently re- re sent by War Var Food Administrator Jones to N. N E E. E Dodd chief of the agricultural adjustment administration saying that demand will not be unlimited in 1945 for all farm products There is a distinct possibility in Business Weeks Week's opinion of some farm production controls for 1945 Economists say it would be better in order to maintain high prices to cut back the production a little next year ear rather than to shock the entire agricultural economy with wholesale slashes in 1946 So in less than three years cars we appear to have licked one of the most critical wartime shortages that shortages that of food and farm crops We Ve have achieved in agricultural production as in the production of ships planes tanks and all kinds of w war r weapons a a. near We have astonished the world with our productive productive pro pro- capacity in all lines and lines and we have astonished ourselves The problem for the future is somehow to adjust our economy from one of scarcity to o one e of to plenty plenty to make our great productive productive productive pro pro- capacity an asset rather than a liability to make it contribute to greater prosperity and a 3 higher standard of living for all and not to depression and the dole